A short eastbound Burlington Northern ‘Expediter’ intermodal train, pulled by lone EMD GP50 No. 3151, approaches Savanna, Illinois, in a view from Mississippi Palisades State Park on September... (more)

BN 9500 leads 2 more SD60MACs on a Soo Line train headed north toward La Crescent, MN having just passed through Bellevue, IA. BN had EMD demos numbered BN 9500-9503 and testing of these units led... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” piggyback train 42 flies through the Illinois countryside east of Chana on April 6, 1991. The train is led by GP20C No. 2003, one of BN’s unique Caterpillar-p... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD24 No. 6244 shows off its high nose, culminated by a Mars signal light, as the locomotive sits on display at the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, Illinois, on June 25, ... (more)

Growling through La Grange
A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD GP50s in tiger-stripe paint, spliced by a fuel tender, wheel a westbound intermodal train out of Chicago at La Grange, Ill... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight is about to thump across the diamond as it passes the creaky, old tower guarding the Milwaukee Road crossing of the BN at Savanna, Illinois, in November 19... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6795 leads train 12 eastbound along the bank of the Mississippi River as it approaches Savanna, Illinois, at 4:10 p.m. on October 19, 1996. Trailing units are LM... (more)

Powered by sets of EMD SD40-2s and on mainline trackage skirting Burlington Northern’s Galesburg Yard in Illinois, a eastbound intermodal train meets a heavy taconite ore train headed for Granit... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expeditor” intermodal train 47 passes over Main Street grade crossing as it skirts the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, on February 20, 1993. The lofty vista is from a public... (more)

After running around the caboose, the helpers on a Utility Fuels (UFIX) coal train in Palmer Lake, Colorado make quick work of getting it on the train. The train is on the single-track bottleneck ... (more)

BN 1540, a former Great Northern GP7 drags a cut of grain boxes through the Minnesota draw bridge into Rice's Point, Duluth, MN from Superior, WI. This bridge was Northern Pacific's, and used by B... (more)

The helpers on a Utility Fuels (UFIX) coal train in Palmer Lake, Colorado have uncoupled from the train and pushed the caboose back on the main. The brakeman waits to throw the switch for the help... (more)

A Texas-bound Utility Fuels (UFIX) coal train is slowing to a halt in Palmer Lake, Colorado. After the entire train is on the single-track, the helpers will push the caboose back a few hundred yar... (more)

The helpers on a Texas-bound Utility Fuels (UFIX) coal train roll into Palmer Lake, Colorado. After the train is on the single-track, the three C30-7’s will run around the caboose to couple it t... (more)

A Utility Fuels (UFIX) coal train skirts the water at Palmer Lake, Colorado. The usual five 3000-horsepawer C-C’s include a Santa Fe Substitute.