Burlington Northern train 203 rumbles westbound through Flag Center, Illinois, on the sunny afternoon of April 16, 1988. BN No. 2700 is a GP39-2 built by EMD in 1981, and the third unit is a lease... (more)

Most trains traveling east out of Alliance, NE are loaded with Powder River coal, but in the Nebraska sand hills along Nebraska Route 2, we traveled in our Chevrolet Impala station wagon alongsid... (more)

While five 3000-hp Burlington Northern C-C’s cross the trestle over the Salt Creek in Pueblo, Colorado, Powder River-bound empty hoppers snake behind them. Although the train disappears behind t... (more)

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs power a westbound coal empty as it crosses a small bridge west of Marietta, South Dakota, on the railroad’s Black Hills Subdivision west of Edgemont on... (more)

A pair of former GN GP9s, nos. 1804 & 1764, park at Newport, WA between assignments. The lack of nose stripes is because these units were set up long hood forward. The former GN mainline still cel... (more)

BN 6919 has its westbound freight tucked into the siding at Odessa, WA as an eastbound meets it. Odessa is about halfway between Spokane and Wenatchee, WA on the former GN mainline.

A westbound drag freight climbs the Chumstick cutoff grade west of Leavenworth with a pair of F9s on the point and vintage Geeps supporting, with more old EMD power on the rear as helpers. The gra... (more)

BN U25C 5653 leads an eastbound freight through Baring, WA. The train will pass the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, out of view, here and continue east to Skykomish to add helpers before continuin... (more)

BN F45 no. 6637 heads up an eastbound freight at Skykomish, occupying the siding while a set of helpers are being added to the rear of the train. They will help the train climb Stevens Pass and be... (more)

Twelve-thousand horsepower worth of EMD SD70MAC locomotives scream by with a southbound Burlington Northern coal train on the Orin Line south of Bill, Wyoming, on the morning of May 12, 1995. BN S... (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)

A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a cabless GE B30-7A B unit, power westbound unit grain train G05 across Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana. The Cascade green train stand... (more)

Colorado’s Joint Line between South Denver and Bragdon (Pueblo) is two parallel lines, one built and owned by Rio Grande, and the other built and owned by Santa Fe. Colorado & Southern, later Bu... (more)

On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)

On June 22, 1973, Amtrak’s California Zephyr is seen passing through Galesburg, Illinois with a CB&Q E8A in the lead. Original Slide. Harry M. Grossman Photo. Sam Foster Collection.