Hiawatha power for the St. Paul-Chicago segment of the Hiawatha/North Coast Hiawatha service awaits its next assignment at Minneapolis Jct., home of BN's Harrison St. roundhouse and diesel service... (more)

The times they are a'changin'....after watching & waiting since 2007, ACWR is full steam ahead with their cab units.

An eastbound Wisconsin & Southern passenger extra waits patiently at the Crawford diamond just east of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on May 19, 1996. A westbound Burlington Northern intermodal trai... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9903 pulls a four-car commuter train into the station stop of Highlands, Illinois, on February 9, 1991. Highlands ended up being a great place to observe BN action w... (more)

MILW 35A and an E9B have coupled on to Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha for its trip between Minneapolis and Chicago. The train is at the former Great Northern Station on Hennepin Avenue in downtown ... (more)

Fifty years prior to the other photos I posted today, MILW 35A posed at North La Crosse's station with Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha. The westbound train would stop at Winona and Red Wing, MN befo... (more)

BN 9984 dressed in an early attempt at a BN color scheme for former CB&Q E units idles at a platform in Chicago Union Station with a "Dinky", the nickname often associated with Burlingto... (more)

Conrail train 3361, a Saturday only Penn Station to Bay Head run, accelerates south of South Amboy, New Jersey, following swapping its GG1 for a pair of NJDOT E8As.

BN E9 3 leads the Nebraska Zephyr East past East Switch on a rare winter run.

BN E9 3 pulls the Nebraska Zephyr onto the car line for headroom in the snow.

Covered Wagon Convergence. A quartet of vintage EMDs occupies the exhibit tracks ned to Central Avenue at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois on August 28, 2022. BN-3 (née-CBQ 9... (more)

Southern Pacific E9A #6051 takes up the rear on the California State Railroad Museum's Polar Express excursion with Santa Fe F7A #347C in the background welcoming passengers.

The 2011 Santa Train departs Battle Creek to head for Chicago after spending the night on RIP track #1 for Battle Creek display. Not the best weather conditions for Santa but we take what we get. ... (more)

The 2016 edition of the Middleton Polar Express, operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings on the Wisconsin & Southern, featured ex-IC 101 along with four leased VIA domes. Built as CB&Q 9977, it is now o... (more)

Smoking just a bit, the IC 101 leads the Santa Special under the former Newberry Road Bridge in Durand, Michigan. How times change. CN has since sold off the IC E-9A Set and the bridge has burne... (more)