BNSF 8127 West, Z-ALTSBD9-27L approaching Homer near the top of the long westbound climb between Needles and Goffs, CA.

On Easter of 2016, the last of three empty bare table trains from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe came on to the Portland and Western Railroad property. These empty three and five pack intermodal... (more)

On Easter of 2016, the last of three empty bare table trains from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe came on to the Portland and Western Railroad property. These empty three and five pack intermodal... (more)

A matched set of four SD60Ms ease their train through the siding at Nickerson while en route to Minneapolis.

Four Cascade Green SD60Ms (8127, 8151, 8121, 8185) roll the Superior, Wisconsin to Northtown (Minneapolis) freight across a nearly frozen Kettle River. The air temp was zero and wind chill pushing... (more)

A pair of ex BN SD60Ms idle outside of BNSF's Superior, WI Belknap facility amongst other units all waiting for duty.

Kicking up fresh powder from the previous nights' dusting, BNSF 8127 and 8168, both SD60M's, lead a 90 car Ross Turn down the hill into Berthold.

The daily Ross Turn drifts downhill into Berthold with two SD60M's leading the 90 car local... Can't beat sun shine, fresh snow and good ole BN!

Built by Electro Motive-Division in February 1990, this EMD SD60M was delivered to the Burlington Northern Railroad as BN 9227. This was one of 100 units BN ordered from EMD to be used in their Po... (more)

Power for the Longmont Turn waits for the crew to board and head to the yard to pick up their train. Once that task is done, they will head to Denver.

The Longmont Turn has some extra power while waiting for the crew to arrive. These units will pick up the train that will be taken to Denver.

Classics indeed! This afternoon, BNSF 8127 takes the lead and returns back to Longmont with 1933 trailing and cars for Denver that came from the Great Western Railway in Loveland and Fort C... (more)

A very nice set of EMDs are power on tonight's intermodal stack train from Cicero Yard to Tacoma, WA.

It's a snowy Saturday afternoon as another bonus trio of SD60s heads out of town with former BN 9227 along with EMD 9060 and former Soo 6000 on the point of COB empties.