Officer Special southbound.
Officer Special southbound at Sherman yard
Coal headed to St. Louis on a frosty morning.
BNSF 9315 ascends the westbound grade out of Cairo with empties.
BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) leads a freight through Tolland, Colorado as it heads towards the Moffat Tunnel.
BNSF 987 leads a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train as it slowly grinds up the 1.4% grade out of Needles on Goffs Hill. These "H1" painted Dash-9s have started to make a comeba... (more)
BNSF 8115 (ES44C4) leads a stack train over the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.
Welcome to the wayback machine in Denver, Colorado. When was the last time you saw two Warbonnets and a Burlington Northern motor side by side?
A variety of light and heavy power wait for servicing at the engine facility in Denver, Colorado,
BNSF 6385 & 5654 eastbound with a loaded coal train.
BNSF 5613 shoves on westbound empties.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Dash 9-44CW 4906, operating with FURX SD40-2 7287 (ex-BNSF 7287, originally BN 7287) and BNSF GP38-2 2277 (ex-BN 2277, née-SLSF 422), approaches Cajon Pass' T... (more)
A north bound BNSF intermodal drops down grade between Allard and Caliente and through tunnels 1 and 2 as the head end pops out of tunnel 1 on a warm summer morning.
BNSF 9292 & 5876 eastbound with a mixed freight.
BNSF 3298 & 3300 power an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 777 leads a westbound empty coal train.
The BNSF YWAT2041 is seen from the Redondo Beach Metro station. The insane amount of wires are contributions of both Metro catenary and a number of high-tension power lines.
BNSF ACe 9272 leans into the elevated curve at Keenesburg, Colorado as it heads east on the Brush Sub.
BNSF 6048 (ES44AC) leads a freight around the corner at Crescent, Colorado under a beautiful Colorado sunny day.
BNSF 6903 heads east in St. Paul with a bald eagle soaring above.
BNSF 5350 & 1034 power an eastbound mixed freight.
BNSF ES44AC 6363, Dash 9-44CW 691 and ES44C4 7932 lead a westbound coal train towards Westshore Terminals coal export facility at Roberts Bank.
BNSF SD70ACe 9040, ES44C4 6865 and NS Dash 9-44CW 9806 head south through White Rock.
Bnsf 4337 leads the H-GALMEM west out of Hannibal Mo.
A heritage one dash nine shoves on the rear of a westbound grain train.
Heading east as it crests southern California’s Cajon Pass is BNSF train Z-LACWSP4-15U. BNSF ES44C4s 6613 and 8130, SD70ACEs 8992 and 8420, and Dash 9-44CW 5225 will take this UPS Expedited Int... (more)
Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)
BNSF 9214 (SD70ACe) muscles the Denver to Provo train through Rocky, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 1532 (GP28-2) climbs out of the bowl at the huge yard in downtown Denver, Colorado.
It's Throwback Sunday at the BNSF engine servicing facility, with two former Santa Fe Warbonnets and a Cascade Green Burlington Northern SD40-2 waiting for service or orders.
A BNSF oil can train led by #6339 (ES44AC) rounds the corner after exiting Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.
Former BN SD70MAC 9650 leads Z-SSECHC East through Berwyn, approaching its destination of Clyde Yard in Cicero.
BNSF 5761 & 6117 power westbound empties.
BNSF 6272 & NS 1133 descend the eastbound grade into Cairo Nebraska with a loaded coal train.
BNSF 6679 & 7917 lead a westbound grain train.
A former BN SD70MAC leads the way on the Northern Transcon's hottest Z train, as they begin their approach to the Twin Cities, with a Dash 9 in second place in the Heritage 1 scheme, making this t... (more)
Technically there is probably one wheel of one car actually in Manhattan Beach, while the rest of the train is in Hawthorne, but Manhattan Beach is cooler. This is the weekend Relief Job that runs... (more)
Out on the high desert plains of the Coronado Sub, south of Chambers, AZ, finds 3 units leading a CBTMCRD.
Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)
BNSF 6046 & Ferromex 4056 lead an eastbound mixed freight.
Westbound grain train approaching the east end of the Tokio siding.
Westbound grain train approaching the east end of the Keystone siding.
Westbound grain train approaching Cheney, WA
The motion blur of a north bound BNSF manifest on a fall night.
BNSF 9749 & 5735 westbound with empties.
A pair of ET44ACHs bring up the rear of westbound empties.
BNSF 3655 (ET44ACH) & 3290 (ES44ACH) lead a westbound empty coal.
The BNSF Denver to Provo train can be seen running through tunnels, 2, 3 and 4 north of Plainview, Colorado as it heads towards the Moffat Tunnel.
Tucked into the small yard in Victorville is a local with BNSF ES44C4 8173 (and another GEVO) for power. (Victorville, California – February 15, 2024)
Here we can see the entire Provo to Denver train led by BNSF 6339 (ES44AC) as it runs through Big Ten Curve at Rocky, Colorado.
BNSF 6339 (ES44AC) leads the Provo to Denver train with 5 other head end units, including two Kansas City Southern engines, down the hill from Tunnel #1 and into Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.
High priority freight arrives in Roanoke under the power of BNSF units, and a Norfolk southern locomotive. These containers are headed for the Intermodal facility in Fairburn, GA.
BNSF 4294 powers an eight car officer special westbound. Cars are Cajon Pass, Trinchera Pass, Mt. Helena, Raton Pass, Marias Pass, Topeka, Fred Harvey, & William B Strong.
Sitting in Victorville, opposite the Amtrak platforms, are a pair of BNSF Railway diesels – Dash 9-44CW 4096 and ES44C4 8203 – assigned to train R-CAL0041-14I, the Victorville Local. The cars... (more)
Westbound grain train working through Marshall Canyon on the former SP&S.
Westbound coal train at the summit of Providence Hill.
Former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) GP60M 105 and GE C40-8 7448 sit in Turell, Arkansas on the Thayer Sub waiting for a train to pass ahead of it. ARSF 105 was built for the Santa Fe... (more)
BNSF Railway train Z-SBDALT4-15 round the curve at Cajon Pass' Summit as it heads from nearby San Bernardino CA to Alliance TX. A quartet of BNSF locomotives - ES44C4s 7089, 6964 and 8327, plus D... (more)
Light snow flurries catch Executive Grinstein BNSF 9709 (SD70MAC) waiting to leave the yard in Golden, Colorado.
BNSF 8945 (SD70ACe) leads a freight through a winter wonderland of heavy snow and thick flock in Golden, Colorado.
BNSF 4034 (Dash9) crosses the Cache La Poudre River in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The BNSF Denver to Provo train makes smoke as the lead ACe muscles the heavy train forward towards the Moffat Tunnel.
Two BNSF trains meet at Tolland, Colorado.
BNSF 8115 (ES44C4) leads a stack train through Spruce, Colorado as it runs south on the Joint Line towards Palmer Lake.
BNSF 8555 (SD70ACe) meets an eastbound coal train that passes at Tolland, Colorado.
A north bound BNSF intermodal is in the depths of a hot Tehachapi summer afternoon and the golden hillsides of the Allard horseshoe area as the trains exits the horseshoe curve and slowly works to... (more)
BNSF trio leads ethanol empties north.
A pair of heavies, BNSF 3650 & 3659, shove on the rear of an eastbound loaded coal train.
With a crew change completed, BNSF 4294 is about to proceed west with an officer special.
BNSF 8447 & 9261 lead an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 4181 shoves on an eastbound unit grain train.
BNSF 9650 in the 'Executive' paint scheme holds lead unit in this consist of classic BNSF and novelty EMD power bringing train H-PASEVE into Tacoma, as it meets grain shuttle operations at the Tem... (more)
BNSF 8945 (SD70ACe) leads a freight out of Golden, Colorado and will head to the massive yard in Denver through falling snow.
BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) waits in Tolland, Colorado for a UP train to exit the Moffat Tunnel.
A UP oil can train meets the BNSF Denver to Provo train led by BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) which occupies the siding at Tolland, Colorado.
Heavy snow and sub-freezing temperatures make operations challenging for the crew of BNSF 8945 (SD70ACe), which is getting ready to take the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado t... (more)
After being held briefly for a westbound to move from main 2 to main 1 at the Richards Spur crossovers just around the curve in the distance, an eastbound accelerates into Detroit Lakes, MN on a c... (more)
BNSF H-GALMEM on a frosty morning near Firma Road.
BNSF 6412 & 8997 power a westbound mixed freight.
BNSF 5335 & 7244 eastbound with a unit grain train.
On February 9th at 4:45 am, one of BNSFs monster coal trains derailed east of Cairo Nebraska. The three SD70ACes were the mid-train DPUs.
A long south bound BNSF manifest slowly rounds the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cold winter morning in the Tehachapi mountains as a heavy central California valley fog is seen off in the dist... (more)
BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) leads the Denver to Provo train through the signals at Tolland, Colorado as it runs west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 8567 (SD70ACe) shoves a freight through Tolland, Colorado as it heads towards the Moffat Tunnel.
BNSF Conductor Ryan Lehmuth gets ready to inspect a BNSF coal train which will meet the Denver to Provo train led by SD70ACe #8555 at Tolland, Colorado.
BNSF 8555 (SD70ACe) leads the Denver to Provo train through Tolland, Colorado as it heads to the Moffat Tunnel.
Snow is blowing off the peaks of the Colorado Rocky Mountains as BNSF 5751 (ES44AC) leads a coal train through Tolland, Colorado after just having exited the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.
