Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6100 rests overnight at Rochelle, Illinois, on February 17, 1996. The vintage locomotive was built by EMD In February 1954 as Great Northern No. 573, equipped without d... (more)

The sun sets as BN 1 departs East Union Depot with the Coach train, seen here passing East Switch.

Tom Bowers photo.

On the autumn day of October 25, 1992, a Burlington Northern taconite ore train headed for Granite City, near East St. Louis, follows the bank of the Mississippi River at Savanna, Illinois. The mi... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Still hauling passengers as Electro-Motive Division intended, a trio of Burlington Northern E9A locomotives line up with commuter trains in the BN/Metra Hill Yard at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16,... (more)

At 5:56 p.m. on April 27, 1991, Burlington Northern train 204 heads east along the “Ol’ Man River” and Mississippi Palisades State Park as it rolls toward Savanna, Illinois. The train is led... (more)

Most of my pictures have signals in them, as the structures and signals themselves were defining elements of a particular railroad's environment such as we'll never see again. BN 6707 is getting a... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9563 leads an eastbound coal train over Main Street in Monmouth, Illinois, on June 29, 1997. BN purchased a large fleet of these 4,000 hp, A.C. traction locomot... (more)

A westbound approaching Edmonds, WA along the beautiful Puget sound.

Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)

The end of August '92 featured the last run of E-units in Chicagoland commuter service for the BN. Four of the last E-units on the roster are seen at Aurora awaiting their next move. Tom Golde... (more)

A single SD40-2 leads a pair of Wisconsin Southern F45s on a transfer departing the B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.

Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.