One of the old Santa Fe warbonnets showing its age as it sits in a deadline in Galveston,TX

BNSF No.5526 pulls the Tehachapi Summit with it's string of Auto Racks. The snow is melting away rapidly in these lower latitudes. Fun while it lasts.

L-CHI105 flies west towards Galesburg with a trio of BN painted units led by BNSF 1795. This unit still has its original RS3K.

BNSF 9643 leads a coal empty northbound at Folsom, NM, on March 9, 2004.

In 2020 a BNSF SD70MAC leading a train is becoming increasingly rare as numerous examples of the type are headed for scrap. This one carries on for now..

The BSNF 7408 leads a stack train over the crest as it races ever higher towards Flagstaff.

Still on the Route 66, after a detour which forced us to leave route 66 for a while, we got back on it at Amboy, right in time to see the unit grain train we saw the day before in Flagstaff. It wa... (more)

BNSF No.5526 pulls Auto Racks eastbound up the west slope of the Tehachapi Mountains to the Summit in Tehachapi. A dusting of snow has fallen overnight on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

BNSF No.7542 with a westbound Grainer rolls through Monolith in Tehachapi after an overnight dusting of snow on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

A former GN snow dozer blasts west at 40 mph near Ball Club, Minnesota after a heavy snow.

A pair of foreigners in the West Virginia hills bring coal along the twisting right of way past a classic set of N&W CPLs at Chattaroy, WV as the train nears Williamson.

A pair of Grinstein-painted Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC locomotives lead an eastbound coal train along the North Platte River in scenic Wendover Canyon approaching the wye at Wendover... (more)

BNSF 108 and 144 speed across the steel bridge at Patrick with the LC505J. I don’t recall them running on Saturdays regularly, so this was a surprise.

A pair of “Heritage I” GE C44-9Ws power a westbound BNSF grain train exiting Tunnel 3.9 and is about to enter Tunnel 4, east of Belton, Montana, on September 8, 1999. The train is following the Mi... (more)

BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.