It’s another busy morning on Burlington Northern’s route over Crawford Hill in Nebraska. As a quartet of BN EMD SD40-2s splicing a fuel tender, being used as a manned helper set out of Crawfor... (more)

A lot of BN SD40s gravitated to the Transcon after the merger; case in point - this eastbound struggling up the long grade from the Colorado River to the Arizona Divide as it moves through Kingman... (more)

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs on a westbound coal train smoke it up as they negotiate an undulating main line through West Berea, Nebraska, on July 4, 1996. This train is heading west... (more)

BNSF train 196 traces the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon as it approaches Lombard, Montana, on August 9, 1996. Three EMD locomotives power the eastbound train—a pair of SD40-2s and a GP50... (more)

A short Burlington Northern local out of Rochelle, Illinois, scurries westward on the C&I (Chicago & Iowa, a predecessor) line west of Flag Center on April 6, 1991. Between EMD GP38 No. 2172 and c... (more)

Twelve-thousand horsepower worth of EMD SD70MAC locomotives scream by with a southbound Burlington Northern coal train on the Orin Line south of Bill, Wyoming, on the morning of May 12, 1995. BN S... (more)

A pair of EMD SD9s rumble eastward through Brookston, Minnesota, with a Burlington Northern local freight on October 19, 1985. The train is about to pass under U. S. Highway 2 overpass just east o... (more)

The Happy Holiday Railway shoves east to ‘The Grove’ on the IRM mainline with BN-3 as power.

The Happy Holiday Railway arrives back at East Union with BN-3 on the point as ATSF 92 rests outside of Barn 2.

The Happy Holiday Railway heads west in the last minutes of sunlight with BN-3 as it smokes it up past a pair of CPL’s on the Illinois Railway Museum Mainline.

In Valley City, North Dakota, a westbound BN coal train powered by a pair of EMD SD60Ms, crosses the massive High Bridge over the Sheyenne River on August 11, 1991. Built by the Northern Pacific b... (more)

A dreary late fall afternoon is nevertheless made attractive by the railroad activity in Ashland, NE. A trio of SD40-2s and a Dash8 lead a string of coil cars west toward Lincoln and beyond. The t... (more)

With only three months left of life on the BN roster, a pair of E-units was sent south to participate in the '92 Galesburg Railroad Days. Tom Golden photo.

It sure looks like a GP30
Burlington Northern train 4 curves out of Rochelle, Illinois, on the morning of April 6, 1991. Still looking like a GP30 as EMD intended when built in February ... (more)