With both BNSF-served taconite iron ore mines closed due to soft demand for steel, most of the railroad's fleet of ore cars is currently stored with the exception of a few sets running to U.S. Ste... (more)
Cody Local has made a pickup at Ralston and is eastbound to connection with Casper Sub at Frannie.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight departs Tabernash, Colorado, on the morning of February 16, 2002.
Blue Looper on the Moffat Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 712 leads an eastbound coal train at Coal Creek Canyon just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 24, 2000. Blue brake shoe... (more)
In the relative coolness of the early morning, a short 30 car train is picking up speed coming out of the siding at Machens, Missouri.
A conveyor ballast train deposits rock along a BNSF branch line in Duluth. These are interesting trains to observe and how they can dump ballast exactly where it is needed. A Tate & Lyle chemical ... (more)
New BNSF C44-9W #4709 in the red & silver Warbonnet scheme at Kansas City, Missouri. An original Kodachrome slide from my Collection.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway business train approaches Fullerton. At just four months old, there are not many locomotives relettered for the new road yet, let alone any of th... (more)
BNSF 8984 paired with a CEFX GE unit pound the diamonds at the UP crossing in Fremont, NE with a coal train bound for Sioux City, IA.
BNSF's Sioux City Sub (a former Burlington route) nearly makes a beeline from Ashland, NE to Sioux City, IA, however, takes a turn through Fremont, NE to parallel the UP before crossing it west of... (more)
An autorack train heads north through the Dayton's Bluff area of downtown St. Paul.
High on the west slope of Marias Pass the 4439 West exits Shed No.8 with a long manifest. The air is pure, the sun is warm and the railroad action quite decent on this August afternoon.
An eastbound high-priority train coming off Cardy Hill near Ethel, Missouri.
A westbound manifest crosses Peruque Creek on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.