It's great to see an old school Burlington Northern SD40-2 still in Cascade Green paint. This one was at the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.

The Akron, Colorado based road switcher heads back west through the tiny prairie town of Benkelman, Nebraska on a chilly December morning. The pair of former BN SD40-2s are right at home working t... (more)

A Lincoln-Hastings manifest passes under Highway 14 at Saronville.

A Lincoln-Hastings manifest leans into a curve on the East end of Sutton, NE.

A Lincoln-Hastings manifest passes the old depot at Friend on the BNSF Hastings Subdivision

A Lincoln-Hastings manifest clears West Dorchester on it's race West.

A Lincoln-Hastings manifest crosses West Saltillo Road between Denton and Crete.

A former BN SD40-2 leads Local 105 west through Hodgkins.

An SD40-2 still in BN green leads the way of the Galesburg bound L CHI105. It's seen making its way west across the Des Plaines River with tonnage from GM Yard in Hodgkins.

A former BN SD40-2 leads Local 105 west through Lemont.

After about an hour and a half of switching work at Joliet, the L CHI105 was departing for Galesburg with a very neat lash-up. Of note in the lash are the two BN Cascade green SD40-2's. The clouds... (more)

A trio of former BN EMD’s & a HLCX GP38-2 leading a local on the Santa Fe towards Galesburg. I barely got this guy in sunlight. That would’ve been a bummer if I got Cloud bombed!

The sun was dropping fast as CHIGAL made its way west with a classic leader.

A great lash-up shoves CHIGAL out to the main in Hodgkins.

BNSF and FURX power rests in GM Yard as L-CHI105 readies its reverse move with a former-BN SD40-2 leading the way.