Plenty of St. Patrick's Day green covers the Cascades' east slopes in May 1984 as BN 6432 grinds its heavy westbound train up the 1 percent grade out of the Wenatchee River Valley at Peshastin, WA... (more)

On September 17, 1994, a Burlington Northern local is about to depart Rochelle, Illinois. Leading the train is BN EMD GP9 No. 1977, a former Spokane, Portland & Seattle locomotive built by EMD in ... (more)

A Burlington Northern local heads east into Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of July 1, 1995. Leaving the C&I (Chicago & Iowa) main line on the right is the 6.8-mile Mount Morris branch.

A visit to the Vancouver, BC area netted this pleasant surprise, a pair of rare NW5s handling yard switching duties in New Westminster yard. These 1000 HP switchers were part of an order for 10 by... (more)

Operating long hood first in a salute to the preference of previous owner Great Northern, BN 6603 has Train 3 pretty much on schedule after losing the lead SD45 at Quincy, WA due to a wheel failur... (more)

A scrap pile of wheels engulfs the cab of an Alco RS-11 at Joseph Simon & Sons scrap yard located in the Tacoma tideflats and the final resting place for a number of BN, MILW and UP locomotives ov... (more)

BN 720 leads an A-B-A of Fs on an Everett Turn heading north toward Seattle from Auburn through Kent, WA. A bit of low winter sun breaks through the clouds putting a bit of glint on the side of t... (more)

Burlington Northern train 143 marches westbound over the Wisconsin River Bridge near Prairie du Chien at Crawford, Wisconsin, on the warm morning of July 30, 1995.

Aiming its nose into a lowering sun is Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9226 leading a westbound BN coal train through Terry, Montana, on July 26, 1992.

BN 8185 has its train stopped near the Skykomish, WA depot on the siding to allow helpers to be removed. Having made the trip from Wenatchee over Stevens Pass, the train will continue to Seattle o... (more)

BN 2220 runs west from Skykomish as a caboose hop opreating as a turn out of Everett, WA. The former CB&Q GP30 running GN style, long hood first on the former GN mainline, is accompanied by a form... (more)

Don't let the blue sky mislead you, it's January in the Pacific Northwest and the reflection pond reveals the truth about precipitation at this time of year. Former NP F9, BN 842, reflects on its ... (more)

The Union Depot area in Pueblo, Colorado was once teeming with passenger activity. That activity was supplanted by a seemingly never-ending parade of Powder River coal trains like this 112-car one... (more)

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)