An eastbound BNSF train nears Lyle, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite the early November date, a fair amount of fall color remains on the trees.

Nine months after the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, along the Columbia River it didn't look like anything had changed. A westbound stack train nears Bingen on the Fallbridge Subdivi... (more)

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.

A BN painted GP39E, still sporting its GP30 carbody & cab, rounds the bend in Lemont with a H1 GP60B & H4 SD40 in tow. A nice leader with an A-B-A consist.

The BN Liberty Local is tied down on their line while a northbound CNW Spine Line train heads toward the Twin Cities on the CP/CNW line towards Polo,MO....

Long before anyone ever heard of "Tiger King," a tiger-striped GP50 leads an autorack train west through the Columbia River Gorge.

A pair of SD40s, the leader wearing cascade green, take the Chicago to Galesburg manifest around the bend in Lemont on a sunny afternoon.

The wind gusts as an extra GALCHI cruises towards Chicago with a BN SD40 up front. A nice accommodation to this old, and presumably abandoned, grain elevator.

Burlington Northern grain train G02 passes the cantilever signal at Townsend, Montana, on September 12, 1995. Nicknamed “the first city on the Missouri River”, Townsend sits nearby the southern ti... (more)

Burlington Northern SD9 6111 switching near 28th St. in Superior April 1971. The 6111 was built as Great Northern 584 in January 1957 and retired by the BN in November 1986. Robert C. Anderson Pho... (more)

Burlington Northern GP9 1913 resting on one of the Dirt House tracks at Belknap Roundhouse in Superior September 1974. The 1913 was built as Northern Pacific 328 in July 1957 and lasted into the B... (more)

Burlington Northern S4 920 switching at Rices Point Yard in Duluth August 1970. Built as NP 720 in December 1953 and retired in May 1973. J.W. Stubblefield Photo from my Collection.

Tom Golden photo.

Taking Chicago by surprise, one of the last BN painted GPs, still sporting a GP30 carbody, roars over the Des Plaines River in some beautiful Golden Light. H1 GP60B, H4 SD60M, & Gevos in trail.

On the Fourth of July 1989, a northbound Burlington Northern coal train passes by the siding at Walker as it heads for a Powder River Basin coal mine. BN GE C30-7 No. 5037 leads a quartet of EMD S... (more)