In town on business (why else, LOL) I did have a great day of railfanning and caught a green barn on rails. I was also there in February. August is better.

Derelict but largely intact these two old dinosaurs caused a quick u turn when spotted them where we certainly didn’t’t expect them.

Frisco had four SD38-2 locomotives, two with dynamic brakes and two without. In 1980 the BN took over and a paint out and renumbering occurred. Here it is in its short livery, but I think the Fris... (more)

MTM's SDP40 325 is seen here patched as its former identity, BN 6399. The SDP40 was posed on the GN turntable as part of the "Train Days" event occurring at St Paul Union Depot. This was... (more)

Weeds grow around a rotting NP coach and SD7 6008 in the "backyard" of the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse. Originally, the museum mechanical volunteers we... (more)

5829, 5006, 5545, 7055, 7852, SP8729 and SP8751 depart Pueblo on a loaded coal.

BNSF 1706 idles away while on local job R-CHI476 in Rochelle, IL, with no work to be done on this Saturday afternoon. This is thankfully one of the increasingly fewer SD40-2s on the BNSF roster th... (more)

Back in the late 90's with the BNSF merger, power was scattered to the wind. Man just about anything could lead anywhere. A combo BN/ATSF consist leads a priority intermodal train west on the Auro... (more)

It's the Illinois Railway Museum's annual Diesel Days event, and on this Saturday the mainline trains were running primarily with hood units. Here, on the museum grounds, BN 5383 pauses at the Mai... (more)

So here comes the 5586 Westbound down the Clark Fork valley between Spring Gulch and St. Regis, MT. At the time, there was a section of track warrant territory between Superior and Paradise, MT th... (more)

BN 6841 has a westbound intermodal outfit approaching the Cosnino Road crossing east of Flagstaff on a late winter morning on the divide. The 6841 is trailed by MRL SD40-2 252. A GP60M and SD40-2 ... (more)

BN 5121 leads a loaded coal train thru Walker, WY on the joint CNW/BN coal line in May of 1991.

BN, Burlington Northern SD40-2 7081 leads a eastbound coal train on the FW&D at Alvord, Texas. September 8, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Burlington Northern, BN GP39V 2978 -GP39E 2775, with a westbound TOFC at, Milledgeville, Illinois. June 16, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo -------------- 2978, built as GM&O#619 GP35 8/1964 ... (more)

Inbound from Chicago, the San Francisco Zephyr makes a brief stop in Fort Morgan before continuing on toward Denver. A pair of ex-CB&Q E8/9s and a third one painted in BN's brief flat silve... (more)