Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

Light snow falls over the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado. BNSF Executive Grinstein 9709 (SD70MAC) was a long time fixture of the beer train that ran between the Coors refinery in Golden and Denver... (more)

One of Metra's newest locomotives pulls into the Glenview station with an outbound rush hour train on a rainy March afternoon.

NS Pumpkin WFRX 8871 is one of 30 former BNSF SD70MACs leased by Norfolk Southern to help with its recent power shortage. Word on the street is that these units will soon be returning to t... (more)

Sequential Motion. The daily mixed freight/autoracks L644 provided an attractive railfanning option on Sunday with its sequentially numbered SD70MAC's in the van.

CSX M582 at South End Landrum with the Operation Lifesaver Engine leading

Wells Fargo lease power tied up at the NS shop , Chattanooga Tn

One of the new Metra 501 (rebuilt KCS, SD70MACs) rolls outbound, out of Union Station and across Canal St. in downtown Chicago Illinois

A pair of BNSF EMD SD70MACs lead a BNSF coal train westbound over the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Belknap, Montana, on September 11, 2010.

Bending thru mile 349 with flare

Military MAC | The sky grows ever darker over Watts, OK where a CSX SD70MAC leads a southbound military train across the Illinois River bridge on a cool Saturday, April 20, 2024 evening. Be... (more)

CSX 4571 leads M316 across the Shortline Sub towards Cumberland Maryland

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)