Locomotives idle around the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s locomotive facility at Alliance, Nebraska, near sunset on July 21, 2003.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight pauses at Caliente, California, on March 15, 2004. A westbound intermodal is approaching and can be seen above the train on the trackage toward Tu... (more)

An eastbound coal train passes through the townsite of Lombard along the Missouri River.

On February 25, 1999, a trio EMD SD70MACs haul a loaded Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train southbound over Apache Creek and through the remote locale of Lascar, Colorado, which is at mile 154... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight passes the old searchlight signals at mile 14.5 on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Leyden on April 20, 2003. The grass is greening up on this spring morning, but... (more)

A southbound Swift RoadRailer train rolls through the Lassen National Forest on the BNSF Gateway Subdivision. This scenic line was originally built by Western Pacific.

A northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train led by SD40-2 No. 6351 crosses a trestle while departing the town of Trinchera on February 27, 1999. The freight just met a southbound train in the ... (more)

Well after sunset an eastbound intermodal passes the Amtrak/Metra station at La Grange Road

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe empty unit coal train crosses a bridge over Carpenter Creek at Larkspur on May 14, 1999. The train is powered by a trio of EMD SD70MACs, running over a section of no... (more)

Passing the ruins of an old trackside coal mine is a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train rumbling through a sweeping curve at milepost 175 between Walsenburg and Mayne, Colorado on ... (more)

BNSF 2183 leads a trio of EMDs out of Galesburg with the GALWEV

An LPC Transfer darts through Lemont with a colorful lashup of locomotives.