An empty ethanol train (Albany, NY to Cicero, IL) rolls West with a fresh crew from Buffalo Frontier yard and the South Buffalo skyline behind them.
A faded warbonnet leads NS 125 east as it heads for Louisville Ky.
BNSF’s Laurel to Denver freight rumbles along the craggy rock formations of Wyoming’s scenic Wind River Canyon and is passing Dornick siding on the morning of June 25, 2023.
An eastbound BNSF coal train passes milepost 143 as it slinks through the Badlands at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on August 26, 2018.
This is my second BNSF coal train out on the Shafter Subdivision. With three units up front, and a DPU on the rear. They can make pretty good time.
BNSF 9007 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train through Roggen, Colorado.
BNSF 9066 shoves an empty coal train towards LaJunta, Colorado.
Not the first time I've photographed an A-B-B-A-A set of GP60's, but definitely a first on a freight in Washington in BNSF H3 Paint.
NS 732, Scherer coal trains drills it's way through Jackson, Georgia, on the Atlanta South District. November 2022
BNSF 9752 & 6022 eastbound with a loaded coal train.
I was able to catch my second BNSF coal train out on the Shafter Subdivision. It nice to be getting something new, and out of the norm to photograph. From what I understand. BNSF has recently star... (more)
BNSF 6076 & 8594 lead 267 westbound empties.
BNSF 6414, 6088, & 9351 westbound with a mixed freight.
Approaching Himes through the red rocks BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming, scrurries through some remarkable scenery between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 26, 2023... (more)
BNSF 9071 & 8593 power westbound empties.
BNSF 5694 & 6431 power westbound empties.
BNSF 9066 (SD70ACe) shoves an empty coal train towards Rocky Ford, Colorado.
BNSF ACe 9007 escorts a coal train past the silo at Roggen, Colorado.
BNSF 8417 (SD70ACe) muscles an empty coal train through Manzanola, Colorado.
BNSF 6525 & 9077 westbound with a train of two bay hoppers.
BNSF 6111 sits with "Stu's Caboose", a heritage caboose that typically is found in use as a shoving platform in Seattle, in the Vancouver Yard. The pair were here for a car show event th... (more)
BNSF GE C44-9W No. 4438 leads the railroad’s Laurel to Denver priority freight (HLAUDEN) out of 177-foot Tunnel 4 between the sidings of Dornick and Piper while passing through Wyoming’s sceni... (more)
BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight, the HDENLAU, crosses the Wind River at Boysen, Wyoming, between the sidings of Piper and Dornick at the entrance to Wind River Canyon on the afternoon of June 28... (more)
Shadows are lengthening as two EMD SD70MACs power BNSF’s Cowley turn, a local that operates out of Greybull, Wyoming, through rugged Sheep Canyon on June 22, 2016. The southbound train is follow... (more)
BNSF 7205 (ES44DC) runs into a red sunrise at Roggen, Colorado.
BNSF 5248 (Dash9) waits to lead a KCS and another pumpkin from LaJunta, Colorado.
Welcome to GARY. NS Train 880 runs East by the permanently closed Union Station and Ticket office. Just outside the gates to US Steal Gary Works, Union station is really a neat place to check out... (more)
Early morning BNSF eastbound crosses the western New Mexico landscape.
Stormy Weather Super Cells spin south of the Palmer Divide.
Stormy Weather BNSF shut down for severe weather.
Hail and Torrent Inside a high precipitation cell at Keenesburg, CO on a stormy June day BNSF momentarily shut down operations after a Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued stopping t... (more)
Fasten Seat Belts Ladies and gentlemen, we will be experiencing some turbulence. Please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts. Roggen, CO July 29, 2023
Summer in the High Country A pleasant Summer afternoon out with friends fielded this eastbound BNSF at Pinecliffe.
BNSF 612, Formerly the ATSF 612 waits for traffic in the siding at Frankfort, IL. The O 918 is an FRA Inspection train doing rail testing on the CN main line. The train was picked up at the BNSF Y... (more)
A pair of EMD SD70MACs power BNSF’s Cody local approaching Ralston, Wyoming, on June 24, 2016. The eastbound local is crossing Bridge 29.14 over Eaglenest Creek with four cars and caboose, and i... (more)
A BNSF local heads west near Panhandle Texas. The 2723 was a former BN unit.
BNSF 5712 (AC4400CW) passes a field of sunflowers at Keenesburg, Colorado.
BNSF 5712 (AC4400CW) races the sunrise to take a loaded coal train through Roggen, Colorado on its way to Denver.
A BNSF duo leads NS 273 west through Elliston, VA.
At almost 700 axles, a massive BNSF manifest passes through open fields as it approaches the Missouri River.
NS 273 rockets past Shawsville at track speed with a shiny BNSF GEVO in charge.
Golden Light On Curtis Hill | Climbing a railroad grade known as Curtis Hill, westbound manifest train H-GALBAR9-02 rounds a curve in western Oklahoma near the community of Belva, OK under ... (more)
Almost every local road switcher in the northwestern corner of Washington state passes by or stops at the yard in Burlington, Washington. With only six tracks, it's a bit of a 'one-butt kitchen', ... (more)
Moving grain East with an H1 livery -9 in charge.
A westbound BNSF ballast train of Herzog cars crosses one of the many “prairie pothole” lakes found in the area just east of Cleveland, North Dakota, on the afternoon of September 1, 2018.
BNSF 7064 leads a westbound train past a MoW crew that was working on a switch at West Daggett at sunrise.
CPKC 229 has power to spare it approaches Montreal with BNSF 6267, CP 8080, KCS 4690, KCSM 4875, CP 2252 & CP 9706 for power. On the back of the train is a complete empty ethanol train, which will... (more)
BNSF 7983 approaches East Siberia as it leads coil train up grade.
A loaded BNSF coal train splits the buildings as it rolls through downtown Burlington, Iowa behind an ES44AC and SD70ACe as it heads east with loads bound for the CN interchange in Chicago. The tr... (more)
Golden Oldie over the Kankakee. It goes without saying that Warbonnet C44-9W #676 has seen much better days. I'm a sucker for the oldies (especially music), so to me, old and battered paint... (more)
Dawn Over Gloss Mountains | As day breaks on a gorgeous Sunday, September 3, 2023 morning, a westbound train rounds a curve in the Gloss Mountains area of western Oklahoma, several miles so... (more)
Stack over Two Medicine It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Med... (more)
Two major players competing for traffic in the viable transportation corridor that is the Columbia River Gorge momentarily roll past one another on the river's Washington banks at Dallesport in a ... (more)
BNSF ACe 9007 runs past a meadow of wild sunflowers as it heads west on the Brush Sub at Keenesburg, Colorado.
BNSF 7205 (ES44DC) passes a silo as it heads into the sunrise at Roggen, Colorado.
BNSF 1798 (SD40-2) moves a cut of cars out of the Denver Yard.
A BNSF warbonnet and CP motor lead an empty windmill train down the Palmer Divide as it crosses over the Rio Grande bridge at Monument.
An empty windmill train crest over the 7,200' summit of Palmer Lake with BNSF Warbonnet and a CP ES44AC lead the train. In the background, a summer thunderstorm hits the Castle Rock/ Larkspur area... (more)
With a fresh crew on board, NS 271 heads east out of Bluefield to traverse the Christiansburg district.
A pair of BNSF units lead eastbound Norfolk Southern intermodal over Coopers Trestle on the Pokey.
From this overpass, we see both the orange sky and the headlights from an approaching stacker illuminate the rails with mere minutes left of daylight.
Got a chance to use my telephoto lens here as the train passes a curve before Bristol
Passing through the cut
Climbing up the grade at Marvin, SD
Far from home: What may look like a scene out of SoCal with the canal and tall buildings is actually a scene from southwest Virginia. An eastbound stacker picks up speed after departing Roanoke w... (more)
Heading from Fort Worth's North Yard to Teague is BNSF Railway train H-NYFTEA1-28A. This merchandise train has BNSF SD70ACe 8546, ES44DCs 7498 and 7490, and SD40-2 1839 (ex-BNSF 6706, née-BN 670... (more)
Descending Cajon Pass is a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway baretable train, heading from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to San Bernardino, just sixteen miles ahead. Two-month-old BNSF Dash 9-44CW ... (more)
BNSF 8417 (SD70ACe) muscles a coal train through Manzanola, Colorado.
BNSF 1798 (SD40-2) crosses the South Platte River as it pulls a cut of cars out of the Denver Yard.
2 BNSF DPUs bring up the rear of a north bound manifest as it slowly drifts by a holding BNSF south bound, down and out of Caliente and into the canyons just west of town.
Two BNSF coal trains meet on the four-track main line over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the afternoon of October 18, 2018.
BNSF 6962 (ES44C4) waits for the green light to muscle an oil can train towards Pinecliffe, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 4419 (Dash9) runs long hood forward as it heads into the Denver Yard where it will be lashed to an awaiting train.
Here is a wide-angle view of the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.
A BNSF oil train nears Helper as it passes Castle Gate.
Welcome back, 1755! Train Y-JOL202 makes It’s way towards Blodgett to switch various Industries overnight as It crosses the Santa Fe-era angle trestle bridge over the I&M Canal in Downtow... (more)
BNSF 6962 (ES44C4) waits at the signals in Tolland, Colorado for the green light to move a freight.
Heavy BNSF motors are repositioning in the engine servicing facility as they will soon get order to head to the yard for a train assignment.
A Union Pacific motor sits at the servicing island at the BNSF engine facility in downtown Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 2718 (GP 39-2) heads to the Denver Yard to start the day sorting cars.
Heavy clouds and fog envelop the Clark Fork River valley as an eastbound BNSF coal empty follows the southern bank of the river approaching Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2020. The Clark For... (more)
Canadian National local L580 rolls across the Grand River in Caledonia as it heads south towards Hagersville after making a pick up from Nicholson & Cates in town. In the lead is former Burlington... (more)
NS 179 passes through Rising Fawn, Georgia with a Fakebonnet leading as it heads south down the AGS line to Birmingham, Alabama.
BNSF 7911 (ES44DC) heads south on the Joint Line out of Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 8415 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through Pinecliffe, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 6917 (ES44C4) leads a two car GEO train in south Denver, Colorado.
Searchlight signals protect the west end of Winston siding atop Winston Hill on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the afternoon of July 2, 2018. Slowly climbing the grade from Townsend i... (more)
A BNSF intermodal heads north out of Portland, en route to the Columbia River Gorge and points east.
BNSF 6414, 6088, & 9351 lead a westbound mixed freight.
