BN 5454 heads a westbound stack train out of the siding at Plains, Mont. on Montana Rail Link. While many signals have been upgraded to modern standards, Plains still celebrates the older NP targe... (more)

Purchased from and still wearing WRIX reporting marks, loco 1616 is working ethanol and DDGS cars at the ethanol plant. Built in June 1955, it worked as NP 228, BN 1854, BNSF 1616, and now still ... (more)

Great Northern F7A 454-A (in NP colors from its days on static display at Como Shops) stored at Jackson Street. Volunteers have done some sheet metal work in preparation for paint (BN Green or GN... (more)

The former Northern Pacific depot in Ellensburg is currently being restored and rehabilitated as a BNSF manifest train rolls through town. More detail on the restoration can be found here: more)

Soo Baldwin 361 clanks across the NP diamonds at Detroit Lakes in this slide from my collection. The train order mast with orders hung out, along with the clean Baldwin and the manned tower give a... (more)

NP 6013D leads three other first generation units on ore loads at Minneapolis. This slide has been in my collection for year and was either bought or traded for. No photographer listed on slide.

In this photo from my collection BN 4193 leads two more ex NP RS-11"s and a SP&S FA on a westbound manifest at Pasco.

I'm not even sure it's Washington. Nothing on the slide. Is that an enhanced cab heater or what behind the cab.

After a trip up to Hinckley, MN to pick up a 30 car BNSF transfer of grain loads, the GP9 duo from the St. Croix Valley RR roll south down the former NP Skally Line as we continue our trip back in... (more)

BN 4191 still in its NP scheme rests at an unknown location in the Pacific Northwest. Slide has been in my collection for years with no photographer listed. After the BN merger the ex NP Alcos tha... (more)

BN 1941 and 1891 at Bemidji in this shot from my collection. With the huge amount of units from NP/GN/CB&Q/SP&S that BN inherited on merger day in 1970 it was a number of years until they all ende... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s night gas local approaches Thompson Falls, Montana, near the old station location of Woodlin on the afternoon of May 8, 2012. This portion of MRL’s Fourth Subdivision close... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight on the Montana Rail Link passes the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2001.

One of the first trains to load at a new ballast quarry on the east slope of NP's Homstake Pass route is seen on a blustry spring day behind a rebuilt SD9 and a geep. Regular service on this line ... (more)

A passenger extra operated by the Arrowhead Civic Club for underprivileged children rolls east along BN's ex-NP branch line to Ashland, Wisconsin. This line was abandoned in 1985 and removed soon ... (more)