A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms, followed by a BN SD40-2, pull an eastbound coal train through the rugged Badlands at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on October 5, 1996.

It’s getting toward sunset on February 5, 2021, as an eastbound BNSF unit oil train empty cruises over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana.

On the morning of June 5, 1993, Burlington Northern’s train 4, led by LMX GE B39-8 No. 8540, rolls eastbound over one of the Sinsinawa River truss bridges at milepost 172 west of Portage, Illinois... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP60M No. 127 shows off its famous warbonnet-clad profile while resting at the locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 26, 1991.

Powered by Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 Nos. 120 and 127, MRL’s Paradise local heads west over the Clark Fork on Bridge 208 west of Donlan, Montana, on September 29, 2014.

When inspecting Burlington Northern’s busy First Sub of the Chicago Division, you still have keep one’s wits about you, even on a weekend when there are fewer commuter trains. The track inspector ... (more)

Geraniums are neatly planted along the platform at Hinsdale, Illinois, making the pleasant spring afternoon feel even more like summer on May 28, 1992. Burlington Northern’s busy triple track main... (more)

During a Montana snowstorm, an eastbound BNSF double grain empty curves through the flocked evergreens between Heron and Noxon on February 6, 2021. It’s snowing hard enough that you can’t read the... (more)

Passing under the wooden overpass of S. Burlington Road, Burlington Northern train 13 curves through a cut west of Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. Hustling the intermodal train destined for Po... (more)

An A-A-B-A set of warbonnet EMD GP60s is about to hurtle an eastbound piggyback train over a rural road west of Edelstein, Illinois, on August 24, 1991. Powering the train bound for Chicago is GP6... (more)

Freeport McMoRan No. 59 leads a third train up the hill from Clifton, Arizona, after quickly picking up the last remaining interchange tonnage from Arizona Eastern Railway on October 22, 2020. FMI... (more)

A BNSF coal empty cruises through Noxon, Montana, on its eastbound trip over Montana Rail Link on February 7, 2021.

Hottest in the fleet
Santa Fe’s ultra hot 199 train flies across a wood trestle over Prairie Creek at Ancona, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 30, 1992. The Chicago to Richmond, Califor... (more)

Rolling though Kittredge, Illinois, in November 1984, is a westbound Milwaukee Road freight train powered by a trio of EMD GP40 locomotives. Kittredge, on the Chicago to Savanna main line, is the ... (more)

The storm has passed leaving everything glazed with winter in the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF grain train heads west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on February ... (more)