BNSF 1706 idles away while on local job R-CHI476 in Rochelle, IL, with no work to be done on this Saturday afternoon. This is thankfully one of the increasingly fewer SD40-2s on the BNSF roster th... (more)

Back in the late 90's with the BNSF merger, power was scattered to the wind. Man just about anything could lead anywhere. A combo BN/ATSF consist leads a priority intermodal train west on the Auro... (more)

It's the Illinois Railway Museum's annual Diesel Days event, and on this Saturday the mainline trains were running primarily with hood units. Here, on the museum grounds, BN 5383 pauses at the Mai... (more)

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 6841 has a westbound intermodal outfit approaching the Cosnino Road crossing east of Flagstaff on a late winter morning on the divide. The 6841 is trailed by MRL SD40-2 252. A GP60M and SD40-2 ... (more)

BN 5121 leads a loaded coal train thru Walker, WY on the joint CNW/BN coal line in May of 1991.

BN, Burlington Northern SD40-2 7081 leads a eastbound coal train on the FW&D at Alvord, Texas. September 8, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Burlington Northern, BN GP39V 2978 -GP39E 2775, with a westbound TOFC at, Milledgeville, Illinois. June 16, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo -------------- 2978, built as GM&O#619 GP35 8/1964 ... (more)

Inbound from Chicago, the San Francisco Zephyr makes a brief stop in Fort Morgan before continuing on toward Denver. A pair of ex-CB&Q E8/9s and a third one painted in BN's brief flat silve... (more)

Burlington Northern, BN SD45 6499 -SD40-2 880 -U30C 891 -SD9 834, at Manitou Springs, Colorado. March 12, 1979. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Outbound for Chicago, the San Francisco Zephyr makes a brief stop in Fort Morgan before continuing on toward Chicago. Note the ex-CB&Q A unit followed by a pair of Union Pacific E8/9 B unit... (more)

Burlington Northern, BN 7010 - 7910 - 5554 -KCS 862, with a coal train Atwater, Illinois. June 11, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

BN, Burlington Northern EMD GP15-1 1391 ex-SLSF 116, is northbound, crossing the MP mainline at Hope Arkansas, June 2, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Burlington Northern, BN GP38-2 2302 -GP38AC 2126 -SLSF GP38-2 2318, about to depart the ex-Frisco Cherokee yard at Tulsa, Oklahoma. August 28, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo BN 2302>SLSF 447 B... (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)