A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)
I spent the night between the refreshing waters of the Kootenai River and the railroad tracks. A morning cup of coffee was much enhanced by the appearance of BNSF 8299 East plying its lengthy path... (more)
With BNSF's recent power shortage, many of the older SD75's have been re-activated.
A good looking Warbonnet SD75I is in charge of this eastbound manifest, followed by a BN Cascade green SD60M. Clear of the diamond in Streator, these two EMD's sounded great chugging along in run ... (more)
BNSF Northbound Z meets up with KCS4102 to take delivery of UPS pigs bound for Chicago.
Red and silver SD75 8299 leads a unit grain train past a BNSF/UP crew change point just south of Tower 55.
A loaded BNSF unit grain train has just crossed the diamonds at Tower 55 on its trek to Houston as a northbound UP coal empty waits on the Ney Bypass. In the distance, a UP manifest comes north of... (more)
A westbound empty coal train is quickly approaching the station sign bearing the name of Josiah Perham, the first president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose transcon through west-central Mi... (more)
A loaded coal train carefully makes its way down the grade into Jamestown.
Empty coal westbound, about to cross over the Red River of the North. I didn't know which state to select; I'm standing in North Dakota and the train is still in Minnesota!
BNSF 8299 W/BNSF 8211 Leads A Pair Of Warbonetts Out Of NS Whitaker Yard Past The Austell Box Board Plant.
BNSF 8299 on a CN train headed west out of Schoolcraft.