Train coming into town and going to make a set out at the interchange.

Westbound BN freight passes over the impressive bridge over Two Medicine River. The barn in the foreground would have to be the most photographed barn in North America!

A Lincoln bound manifest train with an LMX leader is in the hole for a coal train to pass at Armour, MO.

This B30-7a suffered a seized traction motor and was set out at Keenesburg, the next day the crew from Denver came out with a crane and replaced the wheelset so it could be hauled to Denver for re... (more)

On a lesser traveled BN route (that I believe no longer exists), this freight is passing Wood River tower. I think the train is on NS (ex-IT/SL&A) rails at this point, and is moving toward Alton... (more)

A southbound loaded coal train at the end of the long climb from Denver on its way south to a power station in Texas.

A northbound empty coal train arrives Denver. Time was running out for the older GE's on BN's roster, in a couple of years scenes like this would be history thanks to the flood of SD70MAC's that t... (more)

Light and fast Chicago MStP train

A BN caboose (BN 12586) brings up the rear of an eastbound manifest through the sweeping curve of Antares. For only a couple of minutes, the sun was able to find a sucker hole through clouds to pr... (more)

Eastbound mixed freight.

Three BN SD70MAC units roll empty coal gons just north of Douglas. The train is headed by 9554, 9540 and 9576. I was fond of this color scheme as it reminded me of Erie EMD E8 units from years pas... (more)

A BN EMD SD40-2 leads two ATSF GE units on westbound empty coal gondolas and are about to cross the Union Pacific main line. The embankment behind is for the new BN bridge over the UP which is alm... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 units 6847 and 7896 are pulling a Herzog ballast train eastbound in the late afternoon.

Having cleared Amtrak on a siding, a Burlington Northern freight behind an A-B-A set of F-units led by ex-NP F7 720 ventures out onto the mainline and departs Auburn, WA, on a typically misty day.

It’s just a “wedge” photo in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, but the Cascade green on this westbound Burlington Northern coal train sure looks nice on the early spring day of May 11, 1995. BN EMD SD40... (more)