Twelve-thousand horsepower worth of EMD SD70MAC locomotives scream by with a southbound Burlington Northern coal train on the Orin Line south of Bill, Wyoming, on the morning of May 12, 1995. BN S... (more)

A pair of EMD SD9s rumble eastward through Brookston, Minnesota, with a Burlington Northern local freight on October 19, 1985. The train is about to pass under U. S. Highway 2 overpass just east o... (more)

The Happy Holiday Railway shoves east to ‘The Grove’ on the IRM mainline with BN-3 as power.

The Happy Holiday Railway arrives back at East Union with BN-3 on the point as ATSF 92 rests outside of Barn 2.

The Happy Holiday Railway heads west in the last minutes of sunlight with BN-3 as it smokes it up past a pair of CPL’s on the Illinois Railway Museum Mainline.

In Valley City, North Dakota, a westbound BN coal train powered by a pair of EMD SD60Ms, crosses the massive High Bridge over the Sheyenne River on August 11, 1991. Built by the Northern Pacific b... (more)

A dreary late fall afternoon is nevertheless made attractive by the railroad activity in Ashland, NE. A trio of SD40-2s and a Dash8 lead a string of coil cars west toward Lincoln and beyond. The t... (more)

With only three months left of life on the BN roster, a pair of E-units was sent south to participate in the '92 Galesburg Railroad Days. Tom Golden photo.

It sure looks like a GP30
Burlington Northern train 4 curves out of Rochelle, Illinois, on the morning of April 6, 1991. Still looking like a GP30 as EMD intended when built in February ... (more)

Every day was a busy day when Powder River coal traffic ran heavy. BN 9533 catches the afternoon sun as it departs Ashland, heading back to the coalfields while a loaded train is waiting on westbo... (more)

White face BN 9260 leads an empty coal set off the river line into Ashland, NE. BN had endeavored to improve visibility with the white face color although the SD60Ms were the only units delivered ... (more)

Powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, Burlington Northern’s Second 196, curves over Greenhorn Trestle while dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass between Skyline and Weed, Montana, on July 3, 1994.

BN 1 holds at East Union depot with the Nebraska Zeyphr train set as it waits for the coach train to clear East Switch before proceeding east down the mainline to Kishwaukee Grove.

When the Klamath Cogeneration Plant was built, the generators were delivered by rail. An extra BNSF yard job shoves the large loads to the plant site for delivery. The train is passing through Col... (more)

Trough Train
Burlington Northern’s very unique Trough Train bends around a curve at Emerald, Nebraska, on July 8, 1996. These huge 278-foot, 13-unit articulated cars were designed by B... (more)