Very clean SD70MAC 9600 leads 9597 and 9639 as they sit in the yard at Guernsey with an empty westbound coal train.

Three EMD SD70MAC units sit on service tracks at Guernsey. These newer units had the isolated cab to lessen vibration as the seam just behind the nose reveals.

A pair of Burlington Northern GE C30-7s bracket a pair of EMD Oakway Leasing SD60s leading a coal train grinding up the grade through Larkspur on February 24, 1988. The train is crossing the bridg... (more)

Burlington Northern SD70MAC 9485 at Bill, Wyoming on July 22, 1995.

A BN board of director's special is running along US Highway 2 somewhere between Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint on the afternoon of October 1, 1995.

Having seen the recent influx of former Burlington Northern SD70MACs that have gone out to the lease pool, I went back in the archives to find when some of the units were brand spanking new… her... (more)

It's 1995 and the influx of EMD's latest SD70MAC's are evident.

In the summer of the Great Mississippi River Flood (1993), a Burlington Northern empty coal train creeps north toward Hannibal, Missouri, on the K Line.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train departs Walsenburg, Colorado, on February 13, 1998. The train is powered by four BN EMD SD70MACs, and can be seen curving through town above th... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

On June 13, 1998, it still looks like Burlington Northern outside the locomotive shop at Alliance, Nebraska. Three BN EMD SD70MACs line up on the west side of the shop waiting to be moved inside f... (more)

A loaded Burlington Northern coal train heads south at East Walker, Wyoming, on the morning of May 12, 1995.

Three Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs haul a loaded BNSF Powder River Basin coal train past milepost 268 west of Alps, New Mexico, on February 27, 1999. This location is on BNSF’s Twin Mountain... (more)

Well-worn C30-7s lead coal empties north a few miles south of Castle Rock. That's the other main across the valley.

A downturn in coal traffic along with newer SD40-2's and C30-7's on the scene have sent many of BN's U30C's into storage. Pictured here at the 31st St. locomotive facility, are a multitude of unit... (more)