It's 1995 and the influx of EMD's latest SD70MAC's are evident.

BN 5598 is eastbound with a loaded coal train along Hwy 2 near Alliance, NE on a foggy morning in May of 1991.

SD70-MACs were the premier coal haulers for a number of years on BN/BNSF. Here a lovely pair are motoring into the yard at Alliance, NE with another string of empty coal buckets on an April aftern... (more)

BN 5598 emerges from the fog with a loaded coal train as it parallels Hwy 2 east Alliance, NE in May of 1991.

A short distance east of Alliance, the 9601 East is just beginning its journey across the Sandhills Sub, a sparsely populated region of prairie grass hills, aquifer lakes, grazing cows and coal tr... (more)

A Union Pacific Coal load has come off the Butte Sub and into the south yard at Alliance with freshly painted 6311 on the rear.

Warbonnet EMD SD75M No. 8284 shares floor space with a group of Grinstein-schemed EMD SD70MACs inside the locomotive shop at Alliance, Nebraska, on July 21, 2003.

An eastbound loaded BN coal train heads into an S curve along Hwy 2, west of Alliance, NE in May of 1991.

A pair of classic C30-7's (BN 5549 & 5545) are left to fend off the elements at the North Yard in Alliance, Nebraska.

At East Alliance, on the Sand Hills Sub, the power is cut from a loaded coal train that is bound for the Robert W Scherer Power Plant in Georgia. The train on the right is bound for the Alabama Po... (more)

Under a full Moon BN C30-7's 5545 & 5549 sit on the north side of Alliance Locomotive Shop

Late evening just south of Alliance finds a southbound empty heading down the Angora Sub.

The Burlington Northern logo is rare to see on any of today’s locomotives, but can still be seen on two BN C30-7s at Alliance, Nebraska. The rust-flecked white logo is seen on the cab of BN 5549 o... (more)

Derelicts
Burlington Northern GE C30-7 Nos. 5545 and 5549 sit on the north side of Nebraska’s Alliance yard on May 23, 2014. Both were heavily used in coal service for for much of their... (more)

On June 13, 1998, it still looks like Burlington Northern outside the locomotive shop at Alliance, Nebraska. Three BN EMD SD70MACs line up on the west side of the shop waiting to be moved inside f... (more)