Remote Wendover Canyon is host to yet another coal train, led by Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5036, rolling along the North Platte River between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon o... (more)

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5017 leads an eastbound coal train out of Tamora, Nebraska, on the bright morning of July 1, 1989. Spending most of their lives hauling coal as intended, BN amasse... (more)

A pair of vintage Burlington Northern EMD SD9s power a westbound welded rail train past the depot at Rochelle, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 10, 1996.

BN 7205 with a cabless B30-7 and AT&SF GP-30u are on a westbound manifest headed for Lincoln, NE a short distance west of Ashland. Fuji Astia.

Two horses seem to be more interested in the photographer than the passing eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train rumbling by above them, east of Bison, Montana, on the pretty aut... (more)

Motorcar excursion on the Grainbelt line stopped in Snyder for lunch

BN 5383 rests away in Barn 9 at the Illinois Railway Musuem during Labor Day Weekend 2020.

A quartet of Burlington Northern GE C30-7s, along with a lone EMD SD40-2, power a coal empty northward toward Alliance at East Bonner, Nebraska, on July 25, 1992.

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs begin to pull as they depart Edgemont, South Dakota, with a loaded coal train on the afternoon of July 5, 1996. Afternoon clouds are building in the heat... (more)

Burlington Northern train 196 approaches the deep cut that was once a tunnel through Iron Ridge between Weed and Austin, Montana, as it descends the steep 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass on July ... (more)

A Burlington Northern grain train passes through a frigid Bison, Montana, while negotiating a winter crossing of Marias Pass on March 3, 1989. Four EMD SD40-2s and a lone GE B30-7A power the westb... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern coal train changes crews in front of the depot at Dickinson, North Dakota, on the morning of August 10, 1991. BN’s fleet of SD60Ms were initially concentrated on... (more)

The 5586 was my "chaser" for the afternoon on this Montana summer day. Blessed with a train at the semaphores near St. Regis, I followed this westbound toward another blade setting near ... (more)

A green machine. BN 3505 and 7916 leads a pure set of green hopper past the semaphore at MP 710.3 on the 4th Subdivision. (Tom Ellis photo)

A couple LMX leasers, sandwich BN 3512 on Evaro Hill. (Tom Ellis photo)