Burlington Northern GP20 2047 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Chicago Burlington & Quincy 911 in February 1961. When the CB&Q merged with Great Northern, Northern Pacific a... (more)

Late in the day, with their work done, a pair of power sets for locals have tied up for the day. Closest to us are BNSF GP39-2 2732 (ex-BN 2732) and GP38-2 2317 (ex-BN 2317, née-SLSF 462) and, o... (more)

Burlington Northern SD40-2 6331 rolled out of General Motors Electro-Motive Division's plant in McCook, Illinois, in February 1972. (McCook, Nebraska – August 5, 1985)

Departing after a crew change (at the brick station in the distance, to the left of the radio antenna), BNSF railway loaded unit train C-GJCTPH-009 heads east on the Hastings Sub (with also begins... (more)

Local power lays over at the BNSF Railway’s McCook Yard. BNSF SD40-2 1653 is the former BNSF 7056, originally Burlington Northern 7056. ON the adjacent track is BNSF GP39-3R 2697 (ex-BNSF GP35... (more)

Chicago Burlington & Quincy SD9 346 was built by EMD in May 1955. By 1985, the 30-year-old locomotive had lost its signal lights and gained a Cascade Green and black paint job for subsequent owne... (more)

McCook, Nebraska, is a division point on the BNSF Railway, where the Akron Sub and the Hastings Sub meet. (And also where Central Time gives way to Mountain Time on the railroad.) The small yard... (more)

A westbound BNSF Railway manifest has arrived in McCook late in the afternoon after traveling on the Hastings Subdivision, and has tied down in the yard. McCook is the Division Point between the ... (more)

There was a lot of power on BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-CHCDEN9-10 as it departed McCook, Nebraska, on August 11, 2015. Along with the usual power (BNSF ES44C4s 8039 and 6956, plus E... (more)

BNSF Railway's hot Z-CHIDEN9-19 train rushes through Red Willow, on the eastern outskirts of McCook, Nebraska, on August 20, 2017. Four GE diesels (BNSF 6686, 6506, 4828 and 7928) are leading thi... (more)

BNSF Railway, and their two predecessor components (Burlington Northern and Santa Fe), has kept many of their older locomotives, particularly GP30s and GP35s, in active service by rebuilding them ... (more)

An assortment of EMD 4-axle power is gathered in BNSF Railway yard in McCook, Nebraska, on August 18, 2017. The engines, which include GP38-2s (such as BNSF 2257), GP39-3Rs (rebuilt GP35s) and a ... (more)

Cab's Eye View

On an August day in 2015, a BNSF freight waits on the main line in McCook, Nebraska, while final tests are performed before the manifest begins its westbound journey. ... (more)

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In the mid-1980s, Burlington Northern took delivery of two orders of leased engines to help with their motive power needs: 100 SD60s leased from EMD’s Oakway Le... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight, led by a quartet of SD40-2s, makes crew change in McCook, Nebraska, on August 20th, 1987. McCook, in southwestern Nebraska, is the division point where t... (more)