With a new BNSF crew onboard, this loaded sand train takes off from Creston in southern Iowa. Traffic around Creston was a little backed up with eastbound traffic coming in from Lincoln. With ever... (more)

Once Santa Fe cantilever and overhead signal bridges littered the Marceline Sub between Fort Madison and Eton, MO, like what was once here. Nowadays standard GE power and new signals have really k... (more)

The local on the Ravenna Sub is heading back east at Tamora. I am not sure where or what this job does, but the trio of jeeps was pretty cool. The job passes the elevator power at Tamora. The elev... (more)

The local on the Ravenna Sub is heading back east towards Lincoln just east of Waco near sunrise. I am not sure where and what this job does/goes, but the trio of geeps was pretty cool.

Early morning light makes it hard to shoot westbounds on the Ottumwa Sub. A little section west of Ottumwa allows for some shooting as the tracks run a hard northwest. Here an empty takes their ti... (more)

An empty coal train out of Fruitland off the CPKC at Ottumwa puts miles on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub. The train is just past Chillicothe as they approach Cargill Spur. The train was still setup for the... (more)

An auto rack train is on main #2 as they pass through CP 2888 west of Chillicothe, IA, in southern Iowa. The train is working west on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub to Creston, which is the next crew change... (more)

The Eddyville local tends to depart off the Cargill Spur around 17:00-19:00. The job then works towards Burlington and onto Galesburg. It can get some interesting power that isn't just standard GE... (more)

The Eddyville local tends to depart off the Cargill Spur around 17:00-19:00. The job then works towards Burlington and onto Galesburg. The Cargill Spur is on main #1 between CP 2888 and CTC Maxon ... (more)

The Eddyville local tends to depart off the Cargill Spur around 17:00-19:00. The job then works towards Burlington and onto Galesburg. It can get some interesting power that isn't just standard GE... (more)

Moonrise over the Tehachapi Loop and a south bound BNSF stack trains.

A loaded BNSF flatcar train heads south and around the famed Tehachapi Loop on a cold winter morning.

As more MACs got delivered, the BNSF used them on longer ore trains that ran out of Minnesota's Iron Range. Here a trio of MACs roll down the Aurora Sub with ore bound for Granite City. The train ... (more)

The local is running around their cars at East Dubuque as an eastbound comes by on main #1. Scanned slide from February 1997.

BNSF GP40-2 #3019 wearing the BN white face paint scheme is seen resting for the weekend at Jasper, AL. waiting on its next assignment on the Jasper local.