Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Burlington Northern 8096, with an MPI leaser. Also with two more SD40-2's in the consist make their way across the high line at East Glacier, Montana. (Tom Ellis photo)

Burlington Northern EMD GP50 Nos. 3112 and 3151, along with a GP39M (rebuilt GP30) rest at the Clyde Yard locomotive facility at Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991.

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6836 and Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 lead BN train 110 over the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of October 22, 1994. MRL No. 392 is still pa... (more)

BN 2914 leads a southbound freight through Puyallup Washington. The lead locomotive is ex-CB&Q 986, and was rebuilt from a a GP-35 in 1990.

A Burlington Northern local heads to East Dubuque light engine and passes milepost 172 at the twin truss bridges over the Sinsinawa River west of Portage, Illinois, on April 3, 1993. This location... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD F9A-2 BN-1 and F9B-2 BN-2 lead a passenger special of borrowed Metra commuter cars and BN E9A No. 9902. The train was giving visitors short rides in the Galesburg, Illinois... (more)

BN’s trademark
Burlington Northern EMD GP39E No. 2759, a rebuilt GP30 originally built as Southern Railway No. 2547, shows off its new low short nose decorated in bold “whiteface” ... (more)

A short eastbound Burlington Northern ‘Expediter’ intermodal train, pulled by lone EMD GP50 No. 3151, approaches Savanna, Illinois, in a view from Mississippi Palisades State Park on September... (more)

BN 9500 leads 2 more SD60MACs on a Soo Line train headed north toward La Crescent, MN having just passed through Bellevue, IA. BN had EMD demos numbered BN 9500-9503 and testing of these units led... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” piggyback train 42 flies through the Illinois countryside east of Chana on April 6, 1991. The train is led by GP20C No. 2003, one of BN’s unique Caterpillar-p... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD24 No. 6244 shows off its high nose, culminated by a Mars signal light, as the locomotive sits on display at the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, Illinois, on June 25, ... (more)

Growling through La Grange
A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD GP50s in tiger-stripe paint, spliced by a fuel tender, wheel a westbound intermodal train out of Chicago at La Grange, Ill... (more)