One of my favorite locomotive color schemes was that of the Burlington Northern SD70MACs in their original lettering. They ruled the coal routes for several years. Here a trio have paused with the... (more)

Before directional running was established between Pueblo and Amarillo, BNSF's former BN Twin Peaks Sub handled most traffic between CO and TX. Before standard coal power was 2x2, coal trains were... (more)

13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)

BN 3027 passes thru Galesburg, IL in October of 1985.

A BN EMD SD40-2 leads two ATSF GE units on westbound empty coal gondolas and are about to cross the Union Pacific main line. The embankment behind is for the new BN bridge over the UP which is alm... (more)

Burlington Northern freight train No. 104 approaches East Dubuque, Illinois, while tracing the banks of the Mississippi River on April 3, 1993. The eastbound train is powered by EMD GP50 No. 3118 ... (more)

A Burlington Northern coal train powered by a matching quartet of GE C30-7s is ready to leave Alliance, Nebraska, on the eve of July 4, 1996. Courtesy of Mother Nature, the fireworks are starting ... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD GP50 No. 3131 leads westbound train 125 past the mile 207.2 semaphore on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line between St. Regis and Paradise at Donlan, Montana,... (more)

A pair of former SP&S ALCO's were leading a southbound train through N Portland Jct

A view from a photo line at Nimrod, MT during an "AltaMont" weekend yielded this shot of an ex SLSF GP40-2 on the point of mostly 4 axle power on the High Line. The railroad location is ... (more)

LMX 8571 leads a train along the Mississippi River near Genoa, WI on a hazy day in July of 1996.

Santa Fe's York Canyon, NM to Kaiser Steel Fontana, CA unit coal train was climbing west out of Seligman with RCE lead equipped SD 45 leading four SD26 rebuilds on the head end and four more SD26 ... (more)

BN 1750 and three other Geeps head a westbound Cle Elum turn from Yakima through the blades in the Yakima River canyon. The train will drop its cars in Cle Elum yard where another turn originating... (more)