The yellow sign reads, Radio controlled locomotives operate in this area. Crewless BNSF no.2684 with a movement of empty gondolas for the East marginal Yard in the Seattle Industrial area.

The eastbound BNSF morning Z with SD70ACe No. 8431 leading, leaves Home Valley and hustles along the Columbia River making good time.

Three EMDs, all sporting different paint schemes, race through the cornfields of rural Illinois along BNSFs Southern Transcon. Always nice to see BN green shining in the evening light.

The evening Seattle stack flies along the Mississippi River with four of BNs attention grabbing GEs up front… seen here from the Mississippi Palisades State Park.

Eastbound BNSF grainer with BNSF C44-9W no. 4640 leading hustles through Cook Siding on the clear.

Sunrise on a cloudless morning on the Fallbridge Subdivision. Westbound BNSF manifest with ES44DC No. 7623 leading races along the the Columbia River between Cooks and home Valley.

A Roberts Bank, BC to Spring Creek Mine, MT coal empty glides under 10781 foot Mt Baker on its journey to get reloaded in the Power River Basin. Due to unusual triple digit temperatures int he Pac... (more)

NB morning manifest.

A westbound BNSF Z with ES44C4 No. 8331 on the headend, leads through Cook Washington.

Along the Columbia River Gorge at sunrise on the Fallbridge Subdivision a loaded westbound Coal move rolls into Home Valley Wa.

Was not expecting a BNSF train to pull into Dunsmuir this morning for a crew change but here is ES44C4 no.7139 and a southbound grainer.

Fast times on the BNSF transcon. Two westbounds pass the Streator, Illinois station.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rolls eastward through East Kiewit, Wyoming, on September 13, 1999. The area north of Sheridan is rich with coal mining history, but one-by-one, t... (more)

Sandhills & Windmills: This is about as developed as the countryside gets for many a mile along Nebraska Route 2 that parallels the BNSF Sandhills Sub. Two of the Grinstein beauties lead yet anoth... (more)

The 904 West comes sailing down Abo Canyon in single track days. The area, a choke point on the Transcon, was double-tracked some ten years ago.