Getting used to Santa Fe rails, a pair of BN motors lead a fast rolling eastbound through the curves in Camden, MO. The venerable wig wag crossing signal here started clanging well before a train ... (more)

BN SW1200 no. 241 (X-CB&Q) and bay window caboose BN 11702 paired up for service in Rochelle, IL back in October 1982. It was not real common to see BN bay window cabooses. This was formerly SLSF ... (more)

BN SD9 6103 and SD7 6010 take a rest between assignments at BN's former Great Northern Belknap St. Yard. This yard became BN's main regular freight yard in the Twin Ports after the merger in 1970 ... (more)

BN A3, the "Red River", was parked at Havre, MT in October 1982. This is one of several business cars of Great Northern heritage that continued to serve executives on the BN.

BN 7244 leads a quintet of SD40-2s east with an empty coal train along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Tuscor, MT. This is former NP trackage, would become Montana Rail Link in 1987, and likely w... (more)

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs power a westbound coal empty as it crosses a small bridge west of Marietta, South Dakota, on the railroad’s Black Hills Subdivision west of Edgemont on... (more)

Entering the large horseshoe curve west of Belmont, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train slowly works its way up Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on July 9, 1994. Powering the train up front is E... (more)

BN 2505 (X-GN GP35) and two X-NP GP9s have a Seattle to Everett and points north train in tow along Puget Sound at Meadowdale, just north of Edmonds prior to sunset. I experimented with an orange ... (more)

BN 8180 leads a quartet of SD40-2s on a coal train headed east up the Yellowstone River valley just west of Fallon, MT. The train is approaching Glendive where it will change crews before leaving ... (more)

A pair of former GN GP9s, nos. 1804 & 1764, park at Newport, WA between assignments. The lack of nose stripes is because these units were set up long hood forward. The former GN mainline still cel... (more)

BN 6720 grinds train 3 up the 1 percent grade at Leavenworth, WA, meeting an eastbound freight with a crew member ready to inspect train 3. It's spring in the Cascades, and snow still abounds on t... (more)

BN 8133 leads a mix of EMD & GE power up the east side of Stevens Pass at the east end of Berne siding, the last passing siding prior to entering the Cascade Tunnel. The heavy train has helpers as... (more)

A pair of F45s with BN 6645 trailing heads through Cashmere on their way back to Wenatchee, WA. They spent their day in helper service on Stevens Pass.

A hint of Big Sky Blue betrays the GN heritage of BN GP9 1792 leading its Mansfield branch local upgrade out of the Columbia River Valley at Palisades with 40 empty 40 ft. grain boxcars in tow. Th... (more)

BN 2211, rebuilt from GN GP30 no. 3011 (built May 1963), was parked at Skykomish, WA with a rail train. It would appear from the cab that the unit may have had wreck damage at some point. BN did a... (more)