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.
BNSF 5753, 6243, & 6106 with westbound empties.
A pair of SD70ACes, BNSF 9071 & 8593, power westbound empties.
From the front dome window of California Zephyr dome-observation “Silver Solarium”, riding the tail of Amtrak’s westbound CZ, is a view of a meet with an eastbound BNSF freight at Tabernash,... (more)
A loaded grainer climbs through Marshall Canyon.
A remote control hump job at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas pulls west behind a snoot nose SD39-2 and an SD60M. The crew is pulling this cut of cars from the yard to then shove over ... (more)
BNSF 4276 highballs through Choate, passing some old searchlight signals guarding the west switch at Choate.
BNSF 4237 & 3861 lead westbound auto racks.
With intermodal, autoracks, Boeing Fuselages and general freight, this Alliance, TX to Portland, OR train has, as my Grandpa would say, "a dog from every town".
Loaded coal passing soon to be gone searchlights on a soon to be gone railroad. Hopefully the depot remains a maintenance base for BNSF, but I doubt it will see the same level of upkeep.
A trio of BNSF GEs lead an eastbound manifest through Escalon on busy Stockton Sub.
BNSF 8330 with empty coal train bound for the Powder River Basin crossing the Snohomish River north of Everett, Washington.
A loaded coal train makes its way down the Hannibal Sub.
BNSF 8001 leads westbound freight near Cook, WA.
The smell of freshly milled lumber fills the air as a manifest freight passes through Riverbank Ca. sporting several loads of forest products.
The BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado is active on this day. A cut of engines is moving into the yard as another pair are moving from the yard to the servicing facility for sand ... (more)
Bnsf 4329 Takes a rack train east over the KCT high bridge.
A BNSF manifest races through Monolith in the late afternoon summer sun as a dust storm continues to blow through the area.
An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Bridge 55 on Montana rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2022.
It's a hot, sticky, and muggy late evening in the fields outside Panhandle, TX as BNSF 695 leads a local into a transfer yard for the Panhandle & Western.
A trio of GE Dash 9s all wearing their original paint comprise a consist much more reminiscent of the late 90s as NS train 283 cruises through White Sulphur, GA.
Late day luminescence Momentarily parting clouds allow the lowering sun to illuminate a northbound (timetable westbound) BNSF freight following the North Platte River through Wendover C... (more)
Heritage I-painted BNSF Dash 9 no. 993 looks right at home in the thick foliage atop the high fill at White Sulphur as it leads NS train 283 down the former Piedmont main.
On a wet, misty winter morning, in the highly saturated lower Tehachapi foothills, a north bound BNSF intermodal drifts down the steep grade between tunnels 1 and 2, as the rear portion of the tra... (more)
A BNSF ES44C4 brings up the rear as a DPU on westbound manifest freight Q NWHLAC6 30X as it makes its way through Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Missouri, crossing over a Union Pacific eastboun... (more)
Waking Up In Westville | Three locomotives bring up the rear of a southbound crude oil train on the morning of Thursday, August 24, 2023, seen here passing through farmland just north of We... (more)
A BNSF coal empty climbs the northbound grade of Logan Hill at Logan, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 10, 2023. In the house track at Logan is a loaded TVAX No. 680267, bad ordered and waiting f... (more)
Eastbound manifest freight rumbles through a quiet morning in Escalon Ca.
BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) gets ready to move a string of stack cars out of the intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.
A room with a view to the show With freight train congestion ahead, a slick move by the BNSF dispatcher, at least for the passengers of Amtrak’s train 5, crossed the westbound Califor... (more)
BNSF eastbound coal
Push! A eastbound train of black Wyoming low sulphur coal is shoved up the 1.55% grade of Crawford Hill. One of the few places that is still untouched by urban sprawl, perhaps one of the ... (more)
A morning Southbound empty phosphate train (Cicero, IL (BNSF) to Mulberry, FL) passes a Northbound manifest under the Mother of God Catholic Church steeples and spires.
A BNSF stack train climbs south through the curves just west of Bealville in the mid morning light of a warm summer day.
On October 6, 2018, an eastbound BNSF freight has just crossed the Washington-Idaho state line and approaches Hauser Yard at Hauser Junction, Idaho. A pair a nice-looking EMDs power the train—SD... (more)
2.3% East Slope Grade A westbound trainload of of Mid-West grain for the Central Valley charges out of Warren, California. From the mountain above Cache Creek I have watched this train for ... (more)
The crew operating as the Kelly Lake local are almost done for the day as they bring their train to rest in their namesake yard and wait for a van back to Superior, WI.
Auto paces eastbound BNSF priority intermodal at speed near Modesto Amtrak Station.
BNSF 9296 (SD70ACe) runs through light snow as it leads a loaded coal train through Brighton, Colorado.
It is Throwback Thursday at the BNSF engine servicing facility as a Grinstein MAC and a Cascade Green SD40-2 wait to their assigned trains.
Thunder at Iron Ridge A westbound BNSF coal train thunders through Iron Ridge cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, climbing Mullan Pass on the afternoon of July 6, 2022. The train is n... (more)
Bnsf 3831 and ton's of other Ge's waite to be serviced at Argentine yard.
A pair of SD70MACs lead a train of empty coal hoppers through Montgomery. 08/16/23
BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) runs past the UP's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 2302 & CN 4724 are stopped in the Port of Montreal. Soon they will depart westwards for CN's Pointe St-Charles Yard.
BNSF Grinstein 9604 (SD70MAC) shoves an empty coal train into the sunrise at Roggen, Colorado.
Westbound intermodal with international containers from California cross the Walnut canyon creek deposited with copious amounts of powdery snow over the previous night
An east bound Intermodal crosses a west bound at Walnut Canyon creek east of Flagstaff, Arizona.
A west bound with fresh snow at Walnut canyon creek east of Flagstaff, Arizona.
An Eagle Butte Mine coal train grinds up the grade of Colorado's Joint Line as it crosses over the Santa Fe bridge at Larkspur.
A pair of EMD SD70ACe pump out heavy smoke as they get their 17,500 ton coal train moving on a 1.4% grade of Spruce as the DP motors of an empty coal train head north on main track 2.
BNSF 3127 GP50 runs light as it enters the Keensburg Cut on the Brush Sub.
The sun has cracked the horizon as a BNSF coal train crosses Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, at 6:16 a.m. on July 11, 2023. This particular train is powered by four BNSF EMD SD70ACe locomotives... (more)
BNSF 4276 leads CP 31B towards Spence’a Bridge in the early morning.
BNSF 4276 leads CP 31B through the Thompson Canyon, with BNSF business cars in tow.
The RCO Day Zone Job returns to Northtown after working Waste Management on the St. Paul Sub. BNSF 625 is one of several former Santa Fe C44-9Ws that have recently been equipped with remote contro... (more)
A trio of BNSF GE's power the westbound Galesburg to Lincoln manifest freight as it rolls underneath the wooden bridge that carries 695th Avenue over the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision outside of Avery,... (more)
Eastbound ethanol unit Train from Tirgo, CA - Dodge City, KS - (U-TCADDC0) with a fake bonnet Dash-9 leading the train.
BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) lashes up to a container train which it will take to the ready track and stage for the Z train.
Former Santa Fe warbonnet B40-8W 552 leads Local 102 West through Hodgkins.
Train from El-Paso, Tx to Dorchester, NE passes by BNSF 6900 at Fort Sumner.
BNSF train through Seattle
One of the Joint Lines 'rescue motors", BNSF 9026, sits idle in the spur track of Spruce with a pair of bad order coal cars coupled behind it. Normally, a lone BNSF locomotive waits in the sp... (more)
BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) runs light towards the BNSF intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado where it will stage a container train.
Freezing temperatures and blowing snow blankets the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado. A rare sight these days catches two Cascade Green Burlington Northern SD40-2's waiting for ... (more)
Light snow catches BNSF 9570 SD70MAC holding station in the yard at the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.
South Draw A westbound BNSF manifest climbs the grade at Tunnel 16 on the steep 2%+ climb at South Draw. The train is crossing a small creek that flows under ROW at the bottom of the larg... (more)
High above downtown Aurora, one of the few active ATSF paint B40-8Ws crawls through town with a long manifest train for BNs Eola yard.
On a sunny warm afternoon, the 452 job rumbles west by the Congress Park Metra Station with a very faded ATSF paint B40-8W up front. This job, normally utilizing road power on its bi-weekly trips ... (more)
Built in 1915, the quarter mile long elevated viaduct above the streets of downtown Aurora serves its purpose on a beautiful August morning, as a pair of 70macs cruise by with coal empties for Bla... (more)
BNSF 4276 leads CP 31B-03 ACOT on the approach to Drynoch, deep in the Thompson Canyon.
Willow Creek This manifest has been dropping down the the east slope of the Continental Divide since it crossed the Summit at Marias Pass. The train is passing the Lewis and Clark monum... (more)
BNSF Grinstein MAC 9828 waits in the falling snow for order to take a train out of the yard in Denver, Colorado.
A deep freeze and falling snow covers the BNSF firefighting cars as well as engines waiting at the engine servicing facility in Downtown Denver.
Eastbound intermodal crosses the town of Holbrook towards Belen, NM
West bound Intermodal passing the historic SantaFe depot just before the sunset on a cold winter day.
The power of the Pointe St-Charles Switcher is about to couple onto cars that it will take out of the Port of Montreal.
A BNSF manifest climbs up the curves of Allard in the late afternoon sun of a perfect spring day.
With a trio of EMD's on the point, the BNSF M EDYGAL is rolling along the main after departing from Eddyville as it makes the return trip to Galesburg. The train is crossing over the still waters ... (more)
Mojave Rainbow A storm front rolls off the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Tehachapi Pass. Rain was no stranger to the desert in the Spring of 2023. The fast approaching storm is moving fas... (more)
An uncommon BNSF ballast train races through Morrison Canyon just after sunset
A westbound BNSF weed spray train holds on the main while an eastbound BNSF grain train races by, probably the first meet this siding has seen in awhile.
A westbound BNSF weed spray train passes under the abandoned Milwaukee Road bridge. Westbounds are very uncommon on stampede pass this is the first one i have seen in 7 years.
Snowing at Bridge 57 BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek in a Montana snowstorm on February 6, 2021. Interes... (more)
The DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest are seen winding their way down the Tehachapi grade and in to the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a warm, late summer morning. The orange of the lead u... (more)
A BNSF intermodal glides down the Tehachapi grade between tunnels 1 and 2 on a warm summer morning.
An eastbound BNSF grain train sails across Bridge 62 spanning the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork at Tuscor, Montana, on the crisp morning of October 5, 2020.
