The clanging of the bell and swinging arm of the magnetic flagman proclaim the arrival of LMX 8530 bringing a westbound manifest through the Missouri River bottom lands at Camden, MO.
LMX 8595 switches the BN yard in Eola, IL in July of 1991.
LMX GE B39-8 No. 8577 powers Burlington Northern train No. 34 (vehicle train) past the bluffs of Mississippi Palisades State Park just north of Savanna, Illinois, on April 27, 1991.
We're Here to HelpIn the mid-1980s, Burlington Northern took delivery of two orders of leased engines to help with their motive power needs: 100 SD60s leased from EMD’s Oakway Le... (more)
The daily Mobile to Amory freight changes crews in tiny, isolated Magnolia, Alabama. Alabama & Gulf Coast operates this line these days.
MRL forwarding BN train 121 starting up the grade westbbound out of Helena
Westbound BN train 125 departing Helena, MT
Burlington Northern Railroad leased power from both General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (Oakway SD60s) and General Electric Leasing (LMX B39-8Es). When the BN merged with Santa Fe, LMX units ... (more)
After swallowing the SL-SF, BN - and later BNSF - tried mightily to figure the best way to serve Mobile. After Frisco predecessor Alabama, Tennessee & Northern was abandoned, Mobile traffic was r... (more)
A trio of LMX B39-8s leads a SeaLand stack train on the B&OCT. This transfer originated at the BN's Cicero Yard and is very close to its destination of CSX's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.
A trio of LMX B39-8s leads a BN intermodal train on the former Burlington "Racetrack." Tom Golden photo.
Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.
Westbound train 121 descending Bozeman Pass between West End siding and Bozeman.
for a short period in summer '89 BN experimented with LMX units on their Crawford Hill helpers out of Crawford, NE. Here a set of four prepare for their next help up the hill.
A trio of LMX GEs leads train 12 east out of the mountains.
