On July 3, 1989, a short Burlington Northern Crawford local crests the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska. Most, if not all, of the cars are going to be interchanged at Crawford with Chicag... (more)

A quartet of Cascade green EMD SD40-2s put all of their might into pushing a hefty coal train upgrade over Crawford Hill, east of Crawford, Nebraska, on July 5, 1996. The locomotives in this parti... (more)

After a long hike in, and a seemingly endless work window, trains finally flooded the tracks through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 8, 1994. Finding ... (more)

On May 1st, 1971, Amtrak’s first westbound Empire Builder flies through Duplainville, Wisconsin with a quartet of BN F units. This is the same train featured in Pentrex’s Empire Builders to Mi... (more)

When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)

BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

Growing up in Georgia and Alabama, I spent a lot of time around rivers like the Chattahoochee, Oconee, Coosa and Tallapoosa. Saw them flood lots of times. None of that prepared me for the Missis... (more)

Susquehanna train NTV-9 is within view of the crest of the grade as it grinds through Gulf Summit, New York.

BN GP35 2525 former CB&Q 979, BN U25B 5410 former GN 2510 and GN GP20 2015 leads a BN freight train at St. Joseph, Missouri in September 1974. Photo part of my slide collection, no photographer l... (more)

On November 1, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern freight works over Marias Pass at Marias, Montana, powered by three SD40-2s. This early snowstorm effected much of the northern part of the cou... (more)

Sandwiching a fuel tender, three GP50s and a cabless GE lead a train through the abutments of the abandoned IC Gruber Line.

BN 644, a F7A wearing big sky blue paint, leads a northbound train into Vancouver, Washington, in May of 1976. Original Slide. Rob Gottier Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

Three SDP40s and an SD9 lead the Coors turn. It's been a while, but I believe they have finished their work at the brewery and are returning to Denver.

A former St. Louis & San Francisco (Frisco) bay-window caboose is assigned to Burlington Northern’s local out of Kelly Lake, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985. Frisco was merged into BN on November... (more)

Kind of out in the middle of nowhere, loads hold for empties to clear in the early days on the PRB boom.