BNSF 9643 leads a coal empty northbound at Folsom, NM, on March 9, 2004.

In 2020 a BNSF SD70MAC leading a train is becoming increasingly rare as numerous examples of the type are headed for scrap. This one carries on for now..

The BSNF 7408 leads a stack train over the crest as it races ever higher towards Flagstaff.

Still on the Route 66, after a detour which forced us to leave route 66 for a while, we got back on it at Amboy, right in time to see the unit grain train we saw the day before in Flagstaff. It wa... (more)

BNSF No.5526 pulls Auto Racks eastbound up the west slope of the Tehachapi Mountains to the Summit in Tehachapi. A dusting of snow has fallen overnight on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

BNSF No.7542 with a westbound Grainer rolls through Monolith in Tehachapi after an overnight dusting of snow on the Union Pacific Mojave Sub.

A former GN snow dozer blasts west at 40 mph near Ball Club, Minnesota after a heavy snow.

A pair of foreigners in the West Virginia hills bring coal along the twisting right of way past a classic set of N&W CPLs at Chattaroy, WV as the train nears Williamson.

A pair of Grinstein-painted Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC locomotives lead an eastbound coal train along the North Platte River in scenic Wendover Canyon approaching the wye at Wendover... (more)

BNSF 108 and 144 speed across the steel bridge at Patrick with the LC505J. I don’t recall them running on Saturdays regularly, so this was a surprise.

A pair of “Heritage I” GE C44-9Ws power a westbound BNSF grain train exiting Tunnel 3.9 and is about to enter Tunnel 4, east of Belton, Montana, on September 8, 1999. The train is following th... (more)

BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.

Brand-new EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 leads a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train over the Santa Fe bridge crossing East Plum Creek and Spruce Mountain Road just south of Larkspur on the J... (more)

A loaded coal train passes under some of the impressive cliffs of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis.

On a warm July afternoon, southbound Philly bound oil train K160-24 rumbles into the deep cut just south of CP-43 at Mine Dock Road. Leading the train is a very unusual (for NY State)H3 schemed SD... (more)