For several years, Canadian National’s route to Chicago from the northwest was via trackage rights over Burlington Northern, with this changing over to Wisconsin Central trackage rights and even... (more)
BN train 103 cruises along the Mississippi River just west of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 7, 1990. BN GP39M No. 2830 is former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD GP30 No. 944 built ... (more)
The evening Seattle stack flies along the Mississippi River with four of BNs attention grabbing GEs up front… seen here from the Mississippi Palisades State Park.
On the autumn day of October 25, 1992, a Burlington Northern taconite ore train headed for Granite City, near East St. Louis, follows the bank of the Mississippi River at Savanna, Illinois. The mi... (more)