A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a cabless GE B30-7A B unit, power westbound unit grain train G05 across Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana. The Cascade green train stand... (more)

Intermodal train 7, led by Burlington Northern SD40-2 No. 8075, exits Tunnel 3.9 and is about to enter Tunnel 4, east of Belton, Montana, on October 9, 1996. The train is running along the Middle ... (more)

It was springtime in Powder River Basin the day before, but on May 13, 1995, it was like winter as two Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Reno Junction, Wyoming, during a late snowfall.

A Burlington Northern coal train, led by a pair of Cascade green EMD SD40-2s and a pair of Oakway Leasing EMD SD60s, climbs into the large horseshoe curve on Crawford Hill below Belmont, Nebraska,... (more)

On July 3, 1989, a short Burlington Northern Crawford local crests the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska. Most, if not all, of the cars are going to be interchanged at Crawford with Chicag... (more)

A quartet of Cascade green EMD SD40-2s put all of their might into pushing a hefty coal train upgrade over Crawford Hill, east of Crawford, Nebraska, on July 5, 1996. The locomotives in this parti... (more)

After a long hike in, and a seemingly endless work window, trains finally flooded the tracks through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 8, 1994. Finding ... (more)

On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)

When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)

BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

Growing up in Georgia and Alabama, I spent a lot of time around rivers like the Chattahoochee, Oconee, Coosa and Tallapoosa. Saw them flood lots of times. None of that prepared me for the Missis... (more)

Susquehanna train NTV-9 is within view of the crest of the grade as it grinds through Gulf Summit, New York.

BN GP35 2525 former CB&Q 979, BN U25B 5410 former GN 2510 and GN GP20 2015 leads a BN freight train at St. Joseph, Missouri in September 1974. Photo part of my slide collection, no photographer l... (more)

On November 1, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern freight works over Marias Pass at Marias, Montana, powered by three SD40-2s. This early snowstorm effected much of the northern part of the cou... (more)

Sandwiching a fuel tender, three GP50s and a cabless GE lead a train through the abutments of the abandoned IC Gruber Line.