For awhile the IMRL was handling NS auto rack trains between Chicago and Kansas City. IMRL was doing alot of business with UP and NS to handle their trains to and from Kansas City. Here an eastbou... (more)

Highball Highlands!
A westbound Burlington Northern intermodal train flies through Highlands, Illinois, on April 18, 1987. Leading the train is GP50 No. 3161, followed by a fuel tender,... (more)

205 cuts off there 9 cars further back and eases up to Cresson waiting on the Dublin turn to finish there work before entering Cresson yard.

A former Santa Fe GP50 and GP60 lead the Emporia to Wellington, KS "Local 21" through Saffordville on their westward journey towards south central Kansas.

today's Old Town Transfer is tied down off Hill Avenue, either waiting for a fresh crew or they are out to lunch.

Two freight trains meet at track speed in the heart of Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona, on the afternoon of March 6, 1996. At this point, both Santa Fe and Burlington Northern were subsi... (more)

Three EMD locomotives rest outside Norfolk Southern's Juniata Locomotive Shop. NS 5301 and 6137 are in for overhauls. NS 7054, a GP50, awaits its call to begin its transformation into a road slug ... (more)

Main Street in downtown Elgin is greeted with the 121 Job heading west. Elgin is a railroad town and owes its existence, or at least location, to the railroad and a flood. The original alignment o... (more)

The Daffan Double. A 121 crew completes the double after the 111 job lost two motors and went dead shortly after laying down on Daffan Hill. The first cut is seen between the switches at De... (more)

Wearing only its second paint scheme since being added to the Burlington Northern roster in 1985, today this classic GP50 has completed its interchange work with NS at their north yard near 32nd s... (more)

Always happy to find colorful consists like this 17 years after the merger. This set of locomotives will be the power for the Sunday southbound local to Mitchell, SD.

From a hill above Stockholm, the Watertown local sweeps through a cut west of town. Far western Minnesota can be seen in the distance some 20 miles away.

A special heavy lift high-wide shipment departs Duluth for the oil sands project in Canada. This train was impressive to watch curving through the terminal trackage in the Twin Ports.

westbound Santa Fe Xtra Harbor train led by a bunch of freshly painted units out of the shops in San Bernardino, CA passing LAIRPORT siding on the Harbor Sub in El Segundo, CA

BNSF 3173 is the lead motor on the local that has just returned to Aberdeen from Mitchell, SD.