BNSF 9243 (SD70ACe) leaves the yard in Golden, Colorado with a cut of cars for Denver.

An eastbound intermodal claws its way up through Abo Canyon just before sunrise. Although I didn't see many eastbound trains into the morning sun, the westbounds were sure running like streetcars.

Eastbound manifest rolls through Empire Ca. at mid-morning.

Waiting for another WB to pass, this unit set on the bridge for a long time in perfect light. BNSF sure did like these things.

BNSF 5023 (Dash9) leads a ballast train through Commerce City as it heads to Denver on the Brush Sub.

Heritage Colors. A matched pair of Cascade Green BNSF SD40-2 locomotives, 1933 and 1660, were seen sitting at the railroad's Pueblo Yard on April 24, 2024.

An SD60M and SD40-2 relegated to remote control yard service are hard at work shoving a cut of cars over the hump at BNSF's Argentine Yard. Located just west of Kansas City, Kansas this massive ya... (more)

Far ahead the front end of this southbound coaler is approaching the Joint Line as this dutiful string of DPUs helps out with the move.

An eastbound coal train is rounding the curve at the point where the bypass and the main converge again on the east side of town.

BNSF 2857, an EMD GP39-2 leads the Buck Local over an old wooden trestle along the former CB&Q Buckwheat Branch, now known as the Lafayette Branch

BNSF 2082, still sporting the BN livery years after the merger works with an old GTW GP38 on CNs Brownsville Job in the late evening.

Foreign Visitors. Two BNSF units, far away from their home, lead the daily NS 242 through Devine Junction in Columbia, SC.

BNSF Pueblo. BNSF Railway GP39-2 no. 2949 is seen amongst other equipment in the railroad's Pueblo Yard in Pueblo, Colorado. Far in the background is Pike's Peak, rising to over 14,000 ... (more)

Slowly grinding up the grade of the Crookton Cutoff at Williams, BNSF 6193 leads a Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train up the 1% grade. With the wind howling, the Seligman Sub East Dispatc... (more)

The weekend version of the LA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train charges out of Crozier Canyon as it passes through the open range of Truxton.