BN SD7 6013 & SD9 6103 handle heavy switching at Belknap Yard, the former Great Northern yard at Superior, WI. Known for its repainting, it was interesting that the GN shops in Superior left many ... (more)

In the early years of the BN merger, Wenatchee, WA was a healthy source of originating traffic requiring both branchline and mainline locals. It's GN history lived into the mid-70s with some GN pa... (more)

BN 9732, a former GN passenger F3A mates up with an x-GN passegner F7B and former NP F7A at Auburn, WA where they were assigned at the time for transfer service and regional freights between the C... (more)

Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Including a tiger-striped GP50 and one of a handful of B32-8s, an intermodal train is seen pulling into Clyde Yard. Tom Golden photo.

BN SD9 6103 and SD7 6013, both still in Big Sky Blue, couple to a former NP caboose wearing NP's final caboose colors which was close to BN's caboose scheme. During this time it was common to see ... (more)

Ending its career where it started, BN 9908, former GN 510, graces the point of the Empire Builder as it loads baggage and passengers prior to its evening departure from Minneapolis for Spokane, S... (more)

An eastbound BNSF train nears Lyle, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite the early November date, a fair amount of fall color remains on the trees.

Nine months after the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, along the Columbia River it didn't look like anything had changed. A westbound stack train nears Bingen on the Fallbridge Subdivi... (more)

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.

A BN painted GP39E, still sporting its GP30 carbody & cab, rounds the bend in Lemont with a H1 GP60B & H4 SD40 in tow. A nice leader with an A-B-A consist.

Long before anyone ever heard of "Tiger King," a tiger-striped GP50 leads an autorack train west through the Columbia River Gorge.

A pair of SD40s, the leader wearing cascade green, take the Chicago to Galesburg manifest around the bend in Lemont on a sunny afternoon.

The wind gusts as an extra GALCHI cruises towards Chicago with a BN SD40 up front. A nice accommodation to this old, and presumably abandoned, grain elevator.