A lashup of SD40-2's crosses the Des Plaines river on a girder deck bridge when the SD40-2's reigned on the BN. I walked out on the ice to take this shot.

HDILKCK seen passing the old Santa Fe depot at Mazon with a pair of ex-BN SD60Ms. It was rerouted over the Aurora Sub to the ex-EJE and then onto the Chilly Sub due to congestion on the Barstow Su... (more)

A pair of ex-BN SD60Ms take a grain train past the single track cantilever at Chambers Street which lies at the western edge of the Peoria Sub. Its replacement is already standing along with all t... (more)

They're back!!! A pair of ex-BN SD60Ms wait for a Peoria crew at Fremont Street in Galesburg.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train No. 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. Former Colorado & Southern SD40 No. 6339 leads the train into an oppressive wind th... (more)

The Grand Rapids Local accelerates after picking up orders at Saunders Tower.

Burlington Northern SD70MAC No. 9652 receives some maintenance and shares shop space with veteran BN SD9 No. 6154 at Alliance Shops in Nebraska on June 13, 1998.

Patched with a BN road number but still in its Great Northern paint.

Patched with a BN road number but still in its Northern Pacific paint.

Tiger-striped Burlington Northern GP50 No. 3152 leads an eastbound freight through a blizzard at Summit, Montana, atop Marias Pass on a snowy March 3, 1988. Trailing 3152 are two more GP50s, a GE ... (more)

Soo Line tested the Burlington Northern SD60MACs in 1993. Nos. 9500, 9503 and 9502 lead Soo Line train No. 430 up 2nd street in downtown Bellevue, Iowa, on October 17, 1993.

Thunder over Milepost 13
Chicagoland is still bathed in morning sun, but not for long as a storm moves in from the west. It’s August 10, 1986 at Milepost 13 on Burlington Northern’s... (more)

Same color! A late-1940s Ford pickup encounters NP veteran GP7 switching the Yakima Local at a sawmill in Ronald. Note tailings pile at right, a reminder of coal mines that powered NP steam locomo... (more)

A pair of SD40-2's spliced by a GP38-2 comes out of a tunnel along the southern edge of Glacier National Park.

A set of Northern Pacific power and psgr cars is leaving the GN station just after the merger. Unit number is a BN number.