While the conductor enjoys some 45 MPH air conditioning on a fine late spring day a Burlington Northern southward freight rounds a curve just outside of Puyallup, WA with beautiful Mount Rainier l... (more)

An nifty quartet of GE C30-7s lead BNSF's Valmy, NV to Provo, UT coal empty through Riverton on UP's Provo Subdivision. This well matched power set stayed together for a couple of cycles before va... (more)

Burlington Northern's Highball Local rolls southward underneath the abandoned Milwaukee Road viaduct in the fertile & dusty Palouse region of southeastern Washington.

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

Zephyr Bar
Where shiny stainless-steel Zephyrs once traveled through on the busy route between Chicago and the Twin Cities, Burlington Northern Expediter (BN’s monicker for new 2-perso... (more)

With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.

Colorado & Southern GE U30C's 891 and 893 team up with four SD-9's leading a southbound freight over Colorado's Joint Line near Buttes on Feb. 3, 1969. The train is running on AT&SF track and the... (more)

Having traveled 65 miles from Memphis, a St. Louis-San Francisco "westbound" freight passes through Jonesboro, Arkansas on its run to Springfield, Mo. on June 2, 1961. Two Alco FA-1's have three ... (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)

How do you photograph your own train along scenic Puget Sound? Well, you lean out of the dutch door as far as you can and capture this image of round-end Great Northern Train 358's Observation/l... (more)

One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)

Two sets of Burlington Northern SD40-2 helpers rest in front of the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana, on a cold March 2, 1989. Soon enough, another call to push a train up Marias Pass will be an... (more)

Here is a shot of GN Trains 357 - 358 (operating between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.) passing near Bellingham, Wash, after stopping to exchange border customs inspectors. Round-end Obs cars on b... (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.

Camas Prairie's Kamiah Local has BN GP-7 1708 towing empty log cars along the appropriately-named Clearwater River near Pardee, Idaho on Aug. 17, 1977. This scenic branch was 76 miles long, begi... (more)