Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Including a tiger-striped GP50 and one of a handful of B32-8s, an intermodal train is seen pulling into Clyde Yard. Tom Golden photo.

BN SD9 6103 and SD7 6013, both still in Big Sky Blue, couple to a former NP caboose wearing NP's final caboose colors which was close to BN's caboose scheme. During this time it was common to see ... (more)

Ending its career where it started, BN 9908, former GN 510, graces the point of the Empire Builder as it loads baggage and passengers prior to its evening departure from Minneapolis for Spokane, S... (more)

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.

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 souther... (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)