A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty is tucked in Sully Springs siding and a crewman is on the ground to make a visual inspection as an eastbound coal train approaches on the main line on th... (more)

Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Chadborn... (more)

Heavy with loaded vehicles up front, a Burlington Northern freight curves toward the Wisconsin State Highway 16 overpass after departing the crew change point of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in September... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train 123 rolls smartly through Donlan, Montana, as it passes a semaphore at mile 208.6 on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on August 10, 1996.

BN commuterengines E8A 9910 and already rebuilt E9A 9905 rest at the BN shops of Chicago near Union station, shot after sundown.

Burlington Northern train 203 rumbles westbound through Flag Center, Illinois, on the sunny afternoon of April 16, 1988. BN No. 2700 is a GP39-2 built by EMD in 1981, and the third unit is a lease... (more)

A pair of Oakway Leasing SD60s and a cabless U-boat lead a manifest east toward Chicago.

Led by venerable Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9913, a westbound BN “Dinky” commuter train storms into Lisle, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 3, 1990.

Most trains traveling east out of Alliance, NE are loaded with Powder River coal, but in the Nebraska sand hills along Nebraska Route 2, we traveled in our Chevrolet Impala station wagon alongsid... (more)

Burlington Northern intermodal train 13 passes BN freight train 103 at Burke, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. The two trains just swapped crews so the slower and delayed train 103, with EMD GP39M No. ... (more)

While a Chicago & North Western coal train loads on the spur to Antelope Mine, a northbound Burlington Northern coal train, powered by a trio of BN EMD SD70MACs, passes by on the main line at Conv... (more)

My father took this picture of freshly painted BN Bicentennial SDP40 1976 in the Twin Cities in 1975. I recall that he had this photo enlarged into a color print so that I could take it to my kin... (more)

Heading west over Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision is Burlington Northern train 123, approaching Louisville, Montana, after climbing Winston Hill on the afternoon of July 2, 1994.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy SD9 346 was built by EMD in May 1955. By 1985, the 30-year-old locomotive had lost its signal lights and gained a Cascade Green and black paint job for subsequent owne... (more)

Passing milepost 107 on the Colorado & Southern line that treks south to Denver, a Burlington Northern coal train crosses the Wyoming state line into Colorado on July 5, 1989.