A southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train works through the sweeping curves leaving Altus and is approaching Horse Creek, Wyoming, on July 4, 1999.

A BNSF freight train makes its way round the Tehachapi Loop. I'm told the smokey haze in the background was from wild fires. *drone pic

Another coal train from the Powder River Basin heads towards Houston Power and Light's Smithers Lake power plant.

With their DPUs just coming into the frame far left near the famed Hill 582, an eastbound BNSF stack train works up Main 1 as it moves through the control point at Silverwood. The rain clouds have... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s power eastbound BNSF empty grain train G22 through the snow east of Nyack, Montana, on March 1, 1997

On a cold December late morning, Philly bound oil train K162 rumbles south over the serene icy Catskill Creek after holding at CP-111 for Q007. Winter has come hard and early to the Mid Hudson Val... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9Ws power an eastbound freight on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision approaching St. Regis, Montana, on July 1, 2000.

On a crisp fall day, two BNSF interlopers trundle along the Mowhawk river with a unit oil train.

The Southern Pacific era signal bridge just west of Mojave, CA was a popular photographic location before its demise during the decimation of heritage signal systems. Just a few blocks from enteri... (more)

BNSF has a menagerie of rebuilds that started life as Second-Gen geeps, and wound up as GP39s of some sort, but this is a renumbered GP39-2 that was among the big group of 39-2s that Santa Fe acqu... (more)

A colorful consist powers a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train at Bison, Montana, on March 2, 1997. The train is powered by an eclectic set of motive power comprised of BNSF GE C44... (more)

Late afternoon light on a bare table at East Machens, Missouri.

Two trains sit at Reese Siding awaiting fresh crews to take them South. The Auto train is coming out of the Toyota plant in Blue Springs while the loaded coal is led by BNSF 6126

BNSF 4688 leads this crude oil train eastward through the snow covered Utah desert. The train loaded at the Price River Terminal near Wellington, Utah and is probably destined for Cushing, Oklahom... (more)