An ex-BN caboose leads the shove on the 2nd La Mirada as the train clears up at Orangethorpe before proceeding up the KC Lead.

BN 9972 is in charge of a commuter train at Clarendon Hills, IL in April of 1971. The engine looks a little rough but would eventually be rebuilt as BN 9906. Bob Bullermann Kodachrome from my coll... (more)

BN EMD GP39M No. 2805 leads westbound “Expediter” train 41 out of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of October 13, 1990. The first few rebuilds of GP30s into GP39Ms by Morrison-Knudsen in 19... (more)

A trio of manned helper sets utilizing EMD SD40-2s and used in pushing Burlington Northern trains over Marias Pass, rest in the BN yard at Essex, Montana, on the cold and snowy day of March 4, 198... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern local freight—comprised of two EMD GP20s, six wood chip gons and a caboose—zips past the wood frame station at Cromwell, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985.

A climb up a tall bluff at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, yields this view of the Mississippi River valley and Burlington Northern’s long causeway just east of Winona, Minnesota. On the morning of June... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rumbles over Bridge 208 spanning an icy Clark Fork at Donlan, Montana, on a cold February 9, 1997. Powering the train is BN EMD SD40-2 No. 8102 an... (more)

Burlington Northern train 43 growls out of the siding at Chana, Illinois, after meeting train 2 on the sunny spring day of April 6, 1991. On the point is EMD GP20C No. 2003, along with sister Cat ... (more)

The first section of BN train 120 has almost finished rounding the large horseshoe curve that crosses Greenhorn Creek between Skyline and Weed, Montana, and passes some mountain lupines on the mor... (more)

A trio of BN C30-7s lead coal loads through Lin Scott, NE on a November afternoon. Already becoming old school, the C30-7s had dominated the coal routes for years but were inexorably giving way to... (more)

Just moments after departing the crew change town of Mandan, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 10, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern coal train crosses a truss bridge over the Heart Riv... (more)

It’s in the very early days of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as train 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. The railroad still looks like the Burlington Northe... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty makes its way down Crawford Hill, encircling the large horseshoe curve below Belmont, Nebraska, on the morning of July 24, 1992. Powering the train desti... (more)

It’s another busy morning on Burlington Northern’s route over Crawford Hill in Nebraska. As a quartet of BN EMD SD40-2s splicing a fuel tender, being used as a manned helper set out of Crawfor... (more)

A lot of BN SD40s gravitated to the Transcon after the merger; case in point - this eastbound struggling up the long grade from the Colorado River to the Arizona Divide as it moves through Kingman... (more)