Ripping the quiet of night, BNSFs Galesburg to CN Kirk train roars through Plano, with a former Santa Fe Dash 9 up front. One of the few ATSF -9s that have PTC in 2021, and sport its old fashioned... (more)

Joliet Union Station....where it all started for me as a kid. I have many fond memories of watching trains at that very platform, including what is shown in this photograph...Warbonnets. Nearly 26... (more)

Two Warbonnet Dash-9's lead the V-BLUCLO3-12A westbound at Cameron, Illinois in beautiful golden light. Anyone that knows me knows my distaste for the Santa Fe, but it's pretty neat to see this gl... (more)

Looking great on home rails, two Warbonnet Dash-9's sail through the Santa Fe through-truss bridge spanning the Spoon River in Dahinda, Illinois. These veterans of the Santa Fe have most assuredly... (more)

Still holding onto its Warbonnet paint and Santa Fe lettering, BNSF 698 leads a near empty rail train through the diamond in Saginaw, Tx

Former glory. BNSF 645 doing what it does best. Leading hot intermodal trains towards the west coast. Here its seen leading QNYCLAC westbound over the Des Plaines River.

The BNSF Hastings turn with a pink bonnet on the point is out of Lincoln as it approaches Berks siding just east of Crete for a meet with an opposing manifest train.

CSX L230, empty auto racks is lead by a pretty decent shape Santa Fe C44-9W northbound on the Manchester Sub at MP 816.0, Haralson, Ga.

BNSF 629 made a lucky appearance leading a train on daylight savings 2019. After adding cars in Vancouver, the two 6 series Dash-9s departed for points east with faded Santa Fe glory on the headen... (more)

Another nice Santa Fe leader is on this L-CHI102 at Verona back in 2017.

BNSF GE C44-9W No. 632 leads a westbound freight down Crawford Hill on the lower portion of the large horseshoe curve below Belmont, Nebraska, on July 13, 2008. The former Santa Fe Dash 9 has seen... (more)

Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 604 and a Montana Rail Link EMD SD45 power Burlington Northern Santa Fe train 207 through Tunnel 3.9 east of Belton, Montana, on the pretty autumn afternoon of October 9, 19... (more)

Left turn, Clyde. The 616 East is diverging from the joint track arrangement that exists with NS (nee Wabash), some sixty miles east of Kansas City. It being just a few months after the BNSF merge... (more)

Warmest day of the year, heat index near 110 degrees, but a Warbonnet duo remains on L-CHI105 this evening.