Crossing the Columbia River just after sundown, a BNSF Railway local crosses the 1908-built, 2,807-foot-long (856 m) swing span bridge – BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6 – and, as it does, crosses from Ore... (more)

This may look like Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100, and it was in fact Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100 when built by General Electric in April 1949 (and until 12/22/76), but it is actually Oregon Pacifi... (more)

One of Amtrak’s Amtrak Cascades trains, number 508 heading from Oregon’s Eugene/Springfield to Seattle, Washington, passes the BNSF Railway’s Vancouver Yard after departing the station just... (more)

A BNSF Railway freight, a transfer from Vancouver WA, has just arrived in the Willbridge section of Portland, with a pair of GP39-2s on the head-end: BNSF 2959 (the former Santa Fe 3684) and 2707... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Railway coal empties sits in the West Bottoms section of Kansas City as a westbound BNSF intermodal train comprised of RoadRailers, Q-KCKSAG1-06A, passes by. BNSF SD70MACs 9979 ... (more)

A visit to the Santa Fe Railway’s Redondo Junction Roundhouse on a typically overcast southern California day allowed a visit to a lot of locomotives that would not be in service for much longer, ... (more)

Moving a cut of autoracks at Union Pacific’s Dolores Yard, Pacific Harbor Line’s SD18 43 still wears the colors of its third owner, Chicago & North Western. Built by EMD in November 1959 as South... (more)

A westbound BNSF Railway manifest has arrived in McCook late in the afternoon after traveling on the Hastings Subdivision, and has tied down in the yard. McCook is the Division Point between the ... (more)

The sun has yet to rise high enough to clear the San Gorgonio Mountains to the east as a Southern Pacific "Hauler" departs the railroad’s West Colton Yard. This train has the usual SP &... (more)

Fourteen miles north of Bakersfield the BNSF Railway's Lone Star Branch splits off the Bakersfield Sub's mainline and heads west through almond groves. On March 11, 2011, train Y-BAK3071-10I wait... (more)

Not a Safety Cab in Sight! A ballast train passes through Victorville, on BNSF Railway’s Cajon Sub, with a colorful consist. BNSF SD40-2 6933 (ex-ATSF 5181) is teamed with CEFX SD60 6... (more)

BNSF Railway train Q-CHISBD6-30A has nearly completed its trip from Chicago, as its destination of San Bernardino is but ten miles ahead. A trio of GE Dash 9-44CWs is providing the power – not un... (more)

BNSF Guaranteed Intermodal Service train Q-CLORIC1-07, making its way from Clovis NM to Richmond CA, sits in the siding at Angiola, at milepost 942 of the Bakersfield Sub, ss it awaits a late afte... (more)

BNSF Railway SD70MACs 8896 and 9592 haul coal train C-SBMSLW0-51A (South Black Thunder Mine WY to Wood River IL) through Nebraska’s Sand Hills and toward Anselmo on May 12, 2008. BNSF SD70MAC 970... (more)

BNSF Railway train C-NAMMHD0-29A, carrying a load of coal from Wyoming's North Antelope Mine to Escatawpa, Mississippi, holds the main in Halsey, Nebraska, on May 12, 2008. Halsey, in Nebraska's ... (more)