With just a cab in tow, it looks like maybe the local crew is either about to start their work, or has just finished. As a crew member steps down at the pre-fab office, a competitor can be seen o... (more)

A lo-boy semi bottomed out on a crossing west of Gold Bar, got stuck and got hit, resulting in a derailment. Here BN GP30 no. 2226 assists the wrecking crew on the work train assigned to undo the ... (more)

As the clouds start to break away a bit, a BN SD40, with an H4 SD40-2B & H1 SD40, shuttle to the other side of Galesburg Yard, Passing a Warbonnet B40-8W, a Smurf GP38, and a BN SD60M.

Various power sits around GM Yard on this sunny afternoon. The star of the show is L CHI105 preparing to shove out of the yard with a classic Cascade green BN leading the way.

The merger is recent enough that these geeps still have their Frisco colors, though BN numbers have been assigned. The green was coming, though, and way too quickly. Think wood products were a b... (more)

A bit of Acne graces the face of BN 9943, an E8 in Amtrak service at North La Crosse, WI. The engineer is ready to go with the Chicago bound Empire Builder having loaded passengers and undergone m... (more)

Golden light reflects off of a duo of SD70Mac locomotives as they make their way west out of Galesburg, IL.

Waking up on the morning of October 16, 2000, at St. Regis, Montana, revealed weather foretelling the coming of winter, making one almost want to sleep in when low-speed film is loaded in the came... (more)

A four month old Amtrak Empire Builder still shows its BN heritage as it slows to a stop on Milwaukee Road's mainline at Winona, MN. The former NP F9A looks a little forlorn without any identifica... (more)

The BN coal train seen arriving at Palmer Lake in my pervious submission had three BN SD40-2’s on... (more)

Assisted by four Katy SD40-2’s, a Burlington Northern C30-7 leads a southbound coal drag through the sag at Palmer Lake, Colorado.

An empty hopper train rolls north out of Palmer Lake, Colorado while the sun makes a brief appearance.

Most BN traffic on Colorado’s joint line was long coal trains from the Powder River Basin, or returning empties. In both cases, five 3000-hp units were the standard power. Occasionally other tr... (more)

So far as I know the only helper district in Nebraska, BNSF's Crawford Hill presents a significant climb for the prevailing flow of tonnage out of the Powder River. While the show here has mostly ... (more)

Empty hoppers bound for loading in the Powder River Basin roll through Palmer Lake, Colorado as they begin their descent to Denver.