Westbound coal train at Beatrice.
Westbound grain train at Beatrice.
Westbound oil train at Beatrice at the summit of Providence Hill.
A warm summer evening on the Mississippi Export Railroad sees a loaded BNSF coal set begin the southbound run down the shortline. These coal sets are loaded at the Powder River Basin in Wyoming... (more)
An eastbound empty unit oil train runs along the Cabinet Gorge Reservoir west of Noxon, MT. Running on the MRL, this line will be going back to BNSF in just under 4 months when the lease is termin... (more)
A couple of BNSF locomotives tow their bare-table train south through Roanoke, AL. The ID of this train on the BNSF Railroad is (Q-STOATG6), it originated in Stockton, CA.
A Rerouted BNSF Z-train passes downtown Austin. This train, the Z-EAPCHI (Priority Intermodal, Eagle Pass TX to Chicago IL) has been rerouting over the Austin Subdivision in recent weeks as UP has... (more)
BNSF 8348 (SD70ACe) emerges like a ghost out of heavy snow and leads a stack train north on the Joint Line towards Denver, Colorado.
The BNSF yard in Denver is often home to some vintage SD40-2 motors, including on this day #1933, which was built in 1979 and still represents the Cascade Green fallen flag of the Burlington North... (more)
BNSF 8443 & 5973 lead westbound empties.
BNSF 6917 powers a westbound geometry train.
BNSF 5829 & 7976 with an eastbound mixed freight.
A pair of heavies, BNSF 3656 & 3627, lead an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 6157, 9243, & 9285 power a westbound manifest.
An Executive Grinstein MAC sits amongst the pumpkins waiting for service at the engine facility in Denver, Colorado.
Rolling west toward Chicago is a selection of BNSF schemes and some home road NS units.
BNSF 6642 & 6100 eastbound with a local freight.
BNSF 5730, 6157, 8437, 9229, 9968, & 8528 lead a westbound manifest.
BNSF 3300 & 3298 lead westbound empties.
BNSF 9124 & 6027 start the descent into Cairo with an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 3674 & 3291 power westbound empties.
BNSF M-CWHSPO1-12A comes in to Spokane,Wa
BNSF warbonnet 795 leading U-RBOLAU0-05T on the old MRL at Denton,ID
The helpers return after pushing up a loaded grain train and a loaded coal C-SCMRBC0-45F holds the main next to them at Austin,Mt
BNSF 9017 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through Greenland, Colorado as it runs south on the Joint Line.
BNSF 6014 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line through Palmer Lake.
BNSF 9122 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal west on the Brush Sub through West Tonville, Colorado.
Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4319 rides west on the Pasco - Everett high priority manifest train just west of Maryhill WA
Westbound grain train at Anderson Road between Marshall and Cheney.
Westbound manifest train at the summit of Providence Hill on the Lakeside sub. This train had apparently stalled out going up the hill. A number of trains had gone around it on what normally is ... (more)
Westbound oil train at the summit of Providence Hill on the Lakeside sub.
BNSF 8348 (ES44C4) busts through a snow drift as it leads a stack train through Sedalia, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 5282 (Dash9) leads a freight through Sedalia, Colorado during a snowstorm that dropped over two feet of snow in the area.
And eastbound BNSF local waits for Amtrak San Joaquin 710 to pass at Escalon Ca.
A colorful BNSF grain load bound for Guernsey, CA drops into Caliente.
BNSF GE ES44C4 8026 leads and eastbound local freight through Modesto.
Equinoctial Sunrise | As the sun creeps over the horizon on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - the official first day of spring - an eastbound rock train heads across fields near the community of Ra... (more)
Crescent, Colorado, received 42 inches of snow in a major Front Range storm on March 13-14, 2024. On the morning after the blizzard, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight rolls eastbound on Un... (more)
Snow is falling on the Joint Line as BNSF 5347 shoves a freight towards Sedalia, Colorado.
BNSF 5973 (ES44AC) plows through four feet of snow as it rounds the corner at Crescent, Colorado after an epic snowstorm.
BNSF 8360 is westbound after crossing the Mississippi River heading for a crew change at the small yard in Fort Madison.
B119 proceeds south from CP111 after holding for nearly an hour for track work
NS 264 races thru Darien Center
BNSF 9235, 9231, & 5717 ascend the grade out of Seward Nebraska with westbound empties.
The DP locomotives of an empty coal train make their way north on Main Track #2 as a southbound loaded coal train slowly moves on Main Track #1 at Spruce. The loaded coal train is led by a pair of... (more)
A heavy coal train, bound for Donnie, TX, charges across the Brush Subdivision as it split the signals near Atwood, CO on its journey west towards Denver, CO.
A pair of SD70ACes lead a Rawhide Mine, WY to Smithers Lake, TX coal train over Colorado's Joint Line as they climb the 1% grade of Sedalia.
A rapidly moving winter storm is moving eastward across the Mojave Desert. Dramatic clouds were forming just as quickly as the sun would start to set behind them. The potential of dramatic lightin... (more)
One of BNSF’s 25th Anniversary heritage locomotives lead NS empty Coal Train 735 westbound through Cook Springs, AL.
Over four feet of snow fell at Crescent, Colorado, providing an amazing scene of flocked trees as BNSF 5973 (ES44AC) leads a freight around the curve on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 5539 shoves on the rear of a BNSF Eastbound Manifest as it passes the Ft Madison Veteran's Memorial. The wind was blowing pretty hard and thus had all the flags flapping in the wind as it pa... (more)
Heading east with new wind turbine tower poles at the dawn of a winter's day.
BNSF 9157 leads the CPKC 247 out of Franklin Park.
6666 & 6560 pass Vaughn whilst hauling an eastbound tank train
6666 & 6560 approach Vaughn whilst hauling an eastbound tank train
Westbound Z train at the summit of Providence Hill on the Lakeside sub.
Westbound oil train at Fishtrap on the Lakeside sub.
Heritage 1 Style. A little orange brightens up the winter scene in Little Falls, New York on the afternoon of March 16, 2019 as CSX K143-16 heads west with BNSF Railway 961 (C44-9W/Dash9-44... (more)
A train loaded with old BN hoppers headed to St. Louis.
Snow is falling along the Colorado Front Range as BNSF 5282 (Dash9) leads a Ferromex and a freight through Castle Rock, Colorado on the Join Line.
Heavy snow is falling as BNSF 8238 (SD70ACe) passes a helper engine and the old freight depot in Castle Rock, Colorado.
A very frosty BNSF 8348 (ES44C4) runs through Acequia, Colorado on the Join Line as heavy snow falls over the Front Range.
A pair of BNSF locomotives lead NS 156 North at Concord on track one.
H-GALMEM (Galesburg to Memphis) crossing the Peruque Creek bridge on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. I am surprised that this bridge has never washed away, given the amount of debris that accumulates up a... (more)
B117 heads south by QR 113.
BNSF DPU 9029 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train through Hudson, Colorado.
Headed Out. Unusually led by a foreign BNSF unit, the daily mixed freight NS 191 departs Columbia through the central Devine Junction on its way to Augusta, GA.
A loaded taconite train coming from Hibbing Taconite is almost to track speed as they roll down the Casco Sub just south of Hibbing, MN.
A loaded taconite train coming from Keewatin Taconite (steam plume in background) shoves back through the small town of Keewatin as they head east for Kelly Lake before heading south.
A westbound coal train rounding the curve at Old Monroe, Missouri.
BNSF 7853 (ES44DC) leads a freight through Castle Rock, Colorado on the Joint Line.
A BNSF GEVO leads manifest NS 18W out of Vivian Tunnel in Vivian, WV.
A BNSF GEVO leads manifest NS 18W east through Welch, WV.
BNSF 6917 westbound with a geometry train.
BNSF 3304 & 3284 with westbound empties.
BNSF 5829 & 7976 lead an eastbound mixed freight.
BNSF 3737 ramps up the throttle speed as they depart Kelly Lake for points south.
CN isn't the only railroad hauling steaming taconite pellets across Minnesota's Iron Range as BNSF 3737 is loaded out and departing U.S Steel's Keewatin Taconite plant headed south.
Ten unit light power move, Alliance Nebraska to Aberdeen South Dakota.
Headed eastbound on the Sandusky District after working Sandusky Yard NS 266 led by BNSF 3680 a GE ET44C4 passes through Southwest Street in Bellevue Ohio, NS 266 is a daily intermodal from Chicag... (more)
BNSF 5751 (ES44AC) leads a freight through Tolland, Colorado after exiting the Moffat Tunnel.
BNSF 5919 (ES44AC) muscles a freight down the grade from Tunnel #1 into Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.
BNSF 7995 (ES44C4) sits with light power at the engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 6339 (ES44AC) brings a freight through the Big 10 Curve at Rocky, Colorado as it descends the Moffat Tunnel Sub towards Denver.
BNSF ACe 8755 runs a freight westbound on the Brush Sub, passing underneath the support structure for the C-470 Highway.
H1 H3 H2 parade along Division Street.
A few late season snow flurries fill the air as Norfolk Southern loaded sand train 68N rolls into Buffalo, New York behind a BNSF ES44AC and a CP SD70ACU. The train is rolling through CP Draw as i... (more)
The Madison to Madison (Illinois to South Dakota) fertilizer heads west into Willmar. Since we are west of CP 98, the train is off the Wayzata Sub and is now traversing the Morris Sub.
The skeleton of an old, fallen tree descends into an icy Clark Fork on February 9, 2024, and is passed by a westbound BNSF grain train crossing Bridge 62 over the inlet of Swamp Creek at Tuscor, M... (more)
