At 5:56 p.m. on April 27, 1991, Burlington Northern train 204 heads east along the “Ol’ Man River” and Mississippi Palisades State Park as it rolls toward Savanna, Illinois. The train is led... (more)
Most of my pictures have signals in them, as the structures and signals themselves were defining elements of a particular railroad's environment such as we'll never see again. BN 6707 is getting a... (more)
Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9563 leads an eastbound coal train over Main Street in Monmouth, Illinois, on June 29, 1997. BN purchased a large fleet of these 4,000 hp, A.C. traction locomot... (more)
A westbound approaching Edmonds, WA along the beautiful Puget sound.
Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)
The end of August '92 featured the last run of E-units in Chicagoland commuter service for the BN. Four of the last E-units on the roster are seen at Aurora awaiting their next move. Tom Golde... (more)
A single SD40-2 leads a pair of Wisconsin Southern F45s on a transfer departing the B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.
Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.
Tom Golden photo.
The BN's LNG tender and test locomotive are in tow behind a GP50 and B30-7AB on a manifest freight from Cicero. Thomas Szczesniak Jr. photo.
BN 1 leads the coach train on the Illinois Railway Museum Mainline, seen here exiting Johnson Siding.
Tom Kidd photo.
BN EMD E9A 9910 in the roads passenger colors waits along with its sisters for the next commuter rush to Chicago on a warm sunny fall day in 1979
