Burlington Northern GP9 1978 at Hoyt St. in Portland OR August 1970. Unknown Photographer Photo from my collection.

Burlington Northern SD7 6006 in hump service at Pasco WA July 1972. Built in May 1952 as Great Northern 556 and retired in September 1983. This SD7 has left its home rails on the old GN Mesabi Div... (more)

Fifteen SD45s (516-530) were ordered for the CB&Q as the BN merger was coming together in 1968 and were delivered in January 1969, in pre-merger BN green and white Livery. BN renumbered them 6457... (more)

A lo-boy semi bottomed out on a crossing west of Gold Bar, got stuck and got hit, resulting in a derailment. Here BN GP30 no. 2226 assists the wrecking crew on the work train assigned to undo the ... (more)

BN 6542, an SD45 leads a pair of Colorado & Southern SD40-2s and a BN U33C on a westbound freight headed for Stevens Pass and Seattle's Balmer Yard at Interbay. The train crosses the Wenatchee Riv... (more)

In late afternoon light, ex-GN F7A No. 602 sits outside the shops with other EMDs.

BN GP30 is at the end of a light power move at Interbay in Seattle, WA while SD45 6415 (X-NP) leads a freight into town having completed a trip west over Stevens Pass.

Southbound BN WP run through "Highline" train on WP Keddie Wye

Former NP SW1200, BN 156 is paired up with an X-GN switcher at Everett's Delta Yard on a spring-like day in February 1975. It took BN until 1980 to get everything repainted, and then they acquired... (more)

A BN transfer freight waits for a light at Union Station to head south. Looks like this freight is headed for the SP.

Recently repainted F7A/B 682 and 853 shine in the sun in front of BN's shops in August 1973.

In August of 1972, a BN transfer run heads for the bridge over the Columbia River into Portland, OR. The train is departing BN's Vancouver Yard with four ex-SP&S Alco RS3s for power.

GN 679 and 680 were the road's only two passenger GP9s and were delivered with boilers, torpedo tube air tanks, and larger than normal water/fuel tanks. They operated in all three of GN's color sc... (more)

In August 1972, BN E8 No. 9949 rests between assignments on the Seattle-Portland trains. The big E8A is sitting outside the shops at Interbay Yard.

An assortment of paint schemes inhabits stalls at BN's roundhouse at Interbay Yard. Workmen here use the turntable not only for access to the roundhouse, but also to turn power headed south to Por... (more)