Entering the large horseshoe curve west of Belmont, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train slowly works its way up Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on July 9, 1994. Powering the train up front is E... (more)
BN 2505 (X-GN GP35) and two X-NP GP9s have a Seattle to Everett and points north train in tow along Puget Sound at Meadowdale, just north of Edmonds prior to sunset. I experimented with an orange ... (more)
BN 8180 leads a quartet of SD40-2s on a coal train headed east up the Yellowstone River valley just west of Fallon, MT. The train is approaching Glendive where it will change crews before leaving ... (more)
A pair of former GN GP9s, nos. 1804 & 1764, park at Newport, WA between assignments. The lack of nose stripes is because these units were set up long hood forward. The former GN mainline still cel... (more)
BN 6720 grinds train 3 up the 1 percent grade at Leavenworth, WA, meeting an eastbound freight with a crew member ready to inspect train 3. It's spring in the Cascades, and snow still abounds on t... (more)