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.

Due to a major concrete tie project in the Columbia River Gorge, many Burlington Northern trains detoured on Union Pacific in March 1990. This detour is approaching The Dalles, as a BN train on h... (more)

Former CB&Q GP35 2543 and an Erie Lackawanna F3B lead an early BN train at the Saint Anthony Parkway overpass in Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Tom Kidd photo.

Seven six-axle locomotives power a Burlington Northern empty coal train over the impressive 640-foot North Platte River Bridge at Guernsey, Wyoming, on July 4, 1988. Locomotives up front are as fo... (more)

Heading west on the famed Keddie Wye is a Western Pacific freight train pulled by a solid set of Burlington Northern diesels: BN U33C 5719 (ex-Northern Pacific 3304) and three BN C425s (4258 [ex-... (more)

Southbound freight on Oregon Trunk north of Sherars Falls.

Northbound freight on Oregon Trunk north of Sherars Falls.

Westbound freight on BN's ex SP&S Spokane to Pasco line.

Eastbound freight takes the S-curve west of Browning.

Westbound on the High Line a mile or so east of Coram, MT.

Westbound freight climbs towards Mullan Pass east of Austin.

Westbound freight climbs the grade out of Helena.

An early summer afternoon finds a set of BN SD70MACs leading several C30-7s on a coal empty as it crosses the Missouri River near Plattsmouth, NE. The impressive Pennsylvania Through Truss bridge ... (more)

A winter afternoon has yet another coal train ascending Crawford Hill near Windy Point. BN and AT&SF had already merged their corporate entities and Santa Fe power was beginning to migrate as evid... (more)