A trio of SD40-2's build a stack train at Logistics Park.

What year is it? Maybe the tagging (both urban and BNSF) give it away, but a pair of blue and yellow GP60s on the Harbor Sub could be 1988 again. Here they are in local service, pulling the First ... (more)

BNSF Transfer Y-BIR104 swings off the NS West End District & onto the AGS South as they get ready to interchange with Norfolk Southern at North Yard in Birmingham, AL.

A Decatur, IL to Pelzer, SC/GRLW ethanol train flies south with a killer leader. I had taken off work for a completely different train that was extremely late... I was pissed until I received a s... (more)

Dogging up the short but steep grade out of Winston with an eclectic set of power.

THE final D&H train to operate south of Albany, New York on CP's final day of ownership of the South End was fittingly appropriate with D&H lightning stripe-painted GP38-2 7303 hauling a string of... (more)

Q299 rushes westbound through Easton, Ohio at milepost BG150 on the CSX New Castle Subdivision with HLCX 6341 at the helm in near perfect Southern Pacific dress. Many crews refer to this signal as... (more)

Q299 rolls westbound through downtown Akron, Ohio behind the power of HLCX 6341, an SD40-2 wearing nearly untouched Southern Pacific speed-lettering paint. It is seen crossing the Voris and South ... (more)

BNSF 1993, a 36 year old SD40-2, brings a mixed freight into Denver from Commerce City, passing by the Riverside Cemetery. The Burlington Northern veteran shows that it is not yet ready for a si... (more)

CSX train ID Q299 heads west with a former Southern Pacific on the lead on a warm sunny day in September

On the 20th anniversary of the BNSF merger, the BN logo is still on the sanding tower and some Cascade Green locomotives are still beneath it at Willmar, MN.

It is good to see an SD40-2 still making money. BNSF 1966 looks a little worse for wear, but it takes a lick'n and still keeps tick'n.

Gone from the West Slope are both blue ex-Conrail units as well as SD40-2 helper sets. A four-pack of 40-2s, with NS 3349 bringing up the rear, shoves a loaded coal train east as NS 9285 overtakes... (more)