A westbound mixed manifest, led by BN 8087, rolls through the small farming community of Haigler, which is located near the Nebraska - Kansas - Colorado border.

Due to a major concrete tie project in the Columbia River Gorge, many Burlington Northern trains detoured on Union Pacific in March 1990. This detour is approaching The Dalles, as a BN train on h... (more)

After Sundown,BN E9A 9916 is waiting in the Commuter yard area

Three SD40-2's, including two run thru Conrail units, pull a SeaLand stack train.

BN 10024 brings up the rear of a westbound manifest. An unusual catch in 2020.

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9921 leads a westbound Metra commuter train out of Chicago on September 1, 1991. Dominating the background is 108-story, 1,450-foot Sears Tower. At completion in 197... (more)

Led by Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 7864, a westbound BN grain train tops Marias Pass in a heavy snowfall at Summit, Montana, on March 3, 1988.

A northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight behind new GE C44-9W No. 5223, waits for the arrival of an eastbound powered by a pair of BN EMD SD60Ms and a Cascade green BNSF EMD SD40-2 at the... (more)

At sunset on October 24, 1992, an eastbound Burlington Northern train speeds along the Mississippi River as it passes under the graceful U.S. Highway 52 truss bridge at Savanna, Illinois. This bri... (more)

Burlington Northern intermodal train 2 crosses one of the truss bridges over the Sinsinawa River west of Portage, Illinois, on April 3, 1993. This location is on the BN main line along the Mississ... (more)

Power for Burlington Northern’s Mendota local rests overnight in the small yard at Mendota, Illinois, as the old buildings lining Main Street glow on the evening of May 1, 1992. What looks for t... (more)

Representing both makes on this Burlington Northern coal train, C30-7's and SD40-2's. GE, EMD, GE, EMD, GE. Tom Ellis photo.

A long southbound Cowley Local led by a ex BN SD60m rumbles into the spectacular Sheep Canyon. A remote section of the Big Horn River cuts a slice thru Sheep Mountain exposing a Geological wonder... (more)

Things are about to drastically change in the coal fields. It was on this trip that my dad photographed his first set of SD70MAC in their Grimstein paint. A huge order of SD70MAC are coming, and D... (more)