So here comes the 5586 Westbound down the Clark Fork valley between Spring Gulch and St. Regis, MT. At the time, there was a section of track warrant territory between Superior and Paradise, MT th... (more)

BN's test of its former Frisco GP50's proved they were the right locomotive for the job, and made the decision to purchase 53 more. They rolled out of La Grange in BN's new high-visibility orang... (more)

Great vacation here. Here an eastbound freight passes the Chamber of Commerce, which was most helpful to us.

Somewhere along the Joint line. Photo by Unknown. From my collection.

EB grain passing by the familiar cliffs with some classic power. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

On a beautiful spring morning an EB freight roars thru the famous railroad town. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Eastbound on Conrail's TV-556.

Loaded taconite train crosses the Wisconsin Southern at Crawford, south of Prairie du Chien. These SD60Ms were common thru the 90s on these heavy trains bound for Granite City. Scanned slide from ... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

In the early 90s, my mother and I made a lot of trips to Galesburg for railroad days. It was some of the 1st places we went and seen major train action. The BNSF merger would make Galesburg the hu... (more)

Led by venerable Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9913, a westbound BN “Dinky” commuter train storms into Lisle, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 3, 1990.

Burlington Northern intermodal train 13 passes BN freight train 103 at Burke, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. The two trains just swapped crews so the slower and delayed train 103, with EMD GP39M No. ... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern coal train passes through a wide, deep cut located just east of the Missouri River Bridge between the crew change of Mandan and Bismarck, North Dakota, on the afte... (more)

Just moments after departing the crew change town of Mandan, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 10, 1991, a westbound Burlington Northern coal train crosses a truss bridge over the Heart Riv... (more)