Burlington Northern train 3 hurries westbound through Eola, Illinois, on a sunny December 23, 1988. Tiger-stripe EMD GP50 No. 3124 and a cabless GE B30-7AB unit power the Seattle-bound piggyback t... (more)

BUTTE MT Sept 26 1978 — Burlington Northern GP9 1740 is idled by a nationwide railroad strike. My photo.

A BN rotary snow plow rests for the summer in the small yard at Essex MT.

Back in the day when a name would suffice. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

EB freight out in the countryside. Photo by Calvin Christman. From my collection.

Now there is something to be said for paint chips if you're trying to get the color just right. On the other hand........

*Doesn't say on the slide but if I were a betting man I'd say Cicero. Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.

This set has just helped a southbound coal train and is going to tack the caboose onto the rear before heading north for another shove.

What happened to the good old days, when GEs used almost as much water as fuel. Or that was the rumor. Wabtec just doesn't make it as a name. Sorry WABTEC.

There were so many of them it seemed.

The local is switching an industry. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Originally a SLSF unit, photographer unknown, from my collection.

NP must have had a lot of passenger service in the 50s. They sure had a lot of "torpedo boat" keeps. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

Led by classic first generation hoods, with a former NP unit on the point, this EB freight makes its way across the northern prairies. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

OKLAHOMA CITY (May) 1981 — Patched BN GP38-2 2317 awaits its next assignment. EMD built the unit for Frisco in November 1976 as SLSF 462. My photo.