Local Power A pair of EMD GPs soaks up the sun in McCook, Nebraska, on September 14, 2012. BNSF Railway GP39-2R 2817 was, as its distinctive carbody suggests, built as a GP30 by EMD in Jul... (more)

A Burlington Northern switchman rides a Cotton Belt box car while making up a train in McCook, Nebraska, on August 19, 1980.

Following a crew change, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight accellerates out of McCook, Nebraska, on October 7th, 1986. BN SD40-2 8121 leads sister SD40-2 6355 and a pair of cabless B30-7A ... (more)

Burlington Northern maintains a small engine facility at McCook, NE, about halfway between Denver and Omaha. On this August 1991 morning, GP39M 2803 (built as a Cotton Belt GP30, originally 757 a... (more)

Burlington Northern SD40-2 6847 was built by EMD in July 1978 as Saint Louis - San Francisco (Frisco) 957. When the Frisco was acquired by the BN on November 21, 1980, this engine became BN 6847.... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern Santa Fe's ubiquitous Dash 9-44CWs, 5237 and 4473, layover between assignments at McCook, Nebraska. Just behind them is much older BNSF 2800, a GP39M that was origina... (more)

Heading west out of McCook, BN GP40 3006 is the former CB&Q 176.

Burlington Northern SD40-2 7170 pauses for a crew change at the passenger station at McCook, Nebraska in the summer of 1988

Burlington Northern SD9 6223 (ex-C&S 6223, nee-C&S 828) in the summer of 1988

Burlington Northern GP38-2 2369 (ex-SLSF 699) in the summer of 1988

BN GP38-2 7902 (ex-C&S 7902) pauses for a crew change on its way west to Denver at McCook, NE on August 19, 1987.

BN GP38-2 2297 (ex-Frisco 442) leads an eastbound through McCook, NE on August 19, 1987.