In the vast sea of clouds, a small pocket of sun presents itself as a former Santa Fe dash 9 leads the 457 job towards the BRC, seen here ducking under Yackley Ave in Lisle.

BNSF 752 leads a southbound intermodal train through Tehachapi loop an into the single track segment between Walong and Marcel that has since been double-tracked.

The DC days of coal train power were waning with the prevalence of BNs huge SD70MAC fleet, though variety would occasionally present itself - here in the form of a Dash9, C30-7, SD40-2 combo leadi... (more)

The 600 series of Dash9s were some of the last units painted in "original" warbonnet colors before BNSF lettering intruded upon the nose and sides. Here a set of them with a GP60 trailin... (more)

BNSF 7626 and a ATSF Dash 9 serve as DPUs on an eastbound stack train gliding down Chumstick cutoff at Sunitch Canyon Rd. west of Leavenworth, WA.

BNSF 738 leads a freight northward through Sandpoint at the marina on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille. Vintage ATSF Dash 9, BNSF 622, trails still wearing its 19 year old original Santa Fe colors w... (more)

BNSF 606 with a nice lashup await a crew to take this train north over the Mojave Sub. Most Northern California trains are tied down due to a derailment in the Tehachapi Mountains earlier in the w... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train V-SDGBAR (Vehicles; San Diego CA to Barstow CA) winds through the Santa Ana Canyon and, as it passes through the Green River Golf Course, the train has j... (more)

A well powered westbound manifest pulls out of the siding at Elsberry, Missouri. When tripods started to be erected at the end of the siding, I figured we were in for a good catch.

A westbound coal train is nearing the summit of Raton Pass as its DPUs pass Wootton, CO. It was still the good ol' days when BNSF operated a daily manifest and occasional other trains over this ar... (more)

BNSF 645, built in March 1994, still wears its original Santa Fe Superfleet scheme with 24 and a half years of weathering applied. Sometime along the way BNSF initials were patched on, as well as ... (more)

The spirit of the Santa Fe still lives on in 2020. BNSF 698, ex-Santa Fe warbonnet, leads a westbound Q-train through the rural community of Valentine. In 2020, BNSF began to install PTC on their ... (more)

After a 4 hour wait for the BRC to be able to take them, R-CHI457 hugs the abandoned Manufactures Railway bridge while they head under on the connection from the BNSF onto the BRC. A veteran ‘Wa... (more)

BNSF Q-ATGLAC heading north out of Mountain Grove.

BNSF 636 taking the Q-ATGLAC north out of Norwood.