Illinois tree tunnel
A Burlington Northern local approaches a “tree tunnel” as it slowly makes its way eastbound east of Shaws, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Ch... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9692 leads a southbound coal train through Mayne, Colorado, on May 20, 1999. The rear of the train has just cleared the south switch of the siding at Mayne, and... (more)

Wallowing in the weeds at Walton
Quiet in the tiny hamlet of Walton, Illinois, is disturbed by the infrequent passage of an eastbound Burlington Northern local on June 10, 1984. Trackage... (more)

A pair of big, beautiful BN SD70MACs come rolling off the Omaha Sub in Ashland, NE with empty hoppers headed west toward Lincoln and the Powder River mines. The train is crossing the Sioux line di... (more)

An extra Mill Job delivers generators to the Klamath Cogeneration Plant.

Small town Illinois
A Burlington Northern local rumbles through Harmon, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville... (more)

A classic BN commuter train is seen near Lisle.

No signs here that this is early BNSF at Greenwood, NE.

A winter afternoon has yet another coal train ascending Crawford Hill near Windy Point. BN and AT&SF had already merged their corporate entities and Santa Fe power was beginning to migrate as evid... (more)

South of Walsenburg, Colorado, at milepost 176 on BNSF’s Spanish Peaks Subdivision, another coal train heads southbound led by Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9656, and two newer sisters in ... (more)

Rolling past farms with rich soil sprouting spring plants, a Burlington Northern local passes the approach signal for the crossing of C&NW’s Peoria line between Rock Falls and Harmon, Illinois, ... (more)

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch line from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois, known as the 10th Subdivision Branch Line of the Chicago Division. In June 1984... (more)

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch line from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois, known as the 10th Subdivision Branch Line of the Chicago Division. In this view... (more)

The trestle crossing County Road 119.5 is about to feel the weight of four Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs nearing Trinchera, Colorado, with a southbound coal train on February 13, 1998.

A pair of Burlington Northern Railroad SW1500s, 304 (ex-Great Northern 204) and 321, prepare to get to work switching cars in Seattle, Washington, in September 1991.