The 5586 was my "chaser" for the afternoon on this Montana summer day. Blessed with a train at the semaphores near St. Regis, I followed this westbound toward another blade setting near ... (more)

A green machine. BN 3505 and 7916 leads a pure set of green hopper past the semaphore at MP 710.3 on the 4th Subdivision. (Tom Ellis photo)

A couple LMX leasers, sandwich BN 3512 on Evaro Hill. (Tom Ellis photo)

It's incredible the power that can be found out on the main line with locals. GP30 2205 GN heritage, GP38-2's 2278, 2282, Both Frisco, and a GP9 1716 of NP heritage (Tom Ellis photo)

Back when they were new. A couple Oakway lease units. Make there way across the ex Northern Pacific main. (Tom Ellis photo)

A BN caboose brings up the rear of a local as they work a spur on the former MILW Pacific Extension south of Butte.

A westbound Burlington Northern vehicle train passes the entrance to the Stonefield Historic Site at Cassville, Wisconsin, on May 28, 1994. Stonefield is the 2,000-acre estate of Wisconsin’s fir... (more)

A trio of new Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC locomotives that were built to haul coal, grind upgrade as they approach the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on July 9, 1994.

A Burlington Northern commuter train, also known locally as a “dinky”, ducks under the signal bridge at Naperville, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 15, 1989. We are 26.2 miles west of Chic... (more)

Burlington Northern train 120 follows water’s edge as it negotiates Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. For power, a pair of BN EMD SD40-2... (more)

This southbound long-range local has a new crew and is about to resume its trek. A few miles south of Fort Scott, at a spot called Edward - population one switch and zero people - the train will ... (more)

Former Frisco 6680 is in familiar territory as it leads Portland to Birmingham freight under the Mississippi River bridge. Folks have told me this was not the routing for PBF/BPX, but the train i... (more)

BN “Expediter” intermodal train 42, on the right, speeds by local power at Rochelle, Illinois, on the afternoon of August 12, 1995. BN No. 1592 is a former Northern Pacific EMD GP18 (No. 377) ... (more)

Visiting BN power takes an empty unit coal train north on the joint MP/SSW river line.

A loaded Burlington Northern coal train holds down the siding at Berea, Nebraska, on the morning of July 24, 1992. Lead locomotive GE C30-7 No. 5057 has been repainted in BN’s “whiteface” pa... (more)