BN 1991 leads a loaded coal train out of the Black Thunder mine. Returning to the main at Reno Junction. (Tom Ellis photo)

To show support for those serving their country, and their own employees that were serving. Burlington Northern painted this SD60M, and number it 1991. For the Gulf War, Desert Storm. Seen here wi... (more)

Fresh out of the paint booth, BN's Pulling for Freedom SD60M sits outside the Cicero Yard roundhouse awaiting its first revenue move. Tom Golden photo.

BN 1991 leads a Soo Line freight out of Milwaukee, WI in January of 1995. The train is on the ex-MILW Watertown Subdivision.

Soo Line train 425 departs Pewaukee, Wisconsin, after meeting Amtrak 8 at the end of double track on January 15, 1995. A rare locomotive consist powers the train today, with Burlington Northern EM... (more)

On a dark and gray, cold and snowless January 15, 1995, Burlington Northern No. 1991 leads Soo Line hotshot train 425 past the Brookfield, Wisconsin, depot, as a grain train flies by on the eastbo... (more)

On a dark, cold, snowless Wisconsin winter day, Burlington Northern’s specially-painted EMD SD60M No. 1991 to honor U.S. troops serving in Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War. A large seal of... (more)

BN 1991, which was painted in a red, white, and blue scheme as a tribute to the troops that participated in Operation Desert Storm, is seen on the point of an empty coal train which is about to ar... (more)

BN Desert Storm unit brings a Soo Line (ex-MILW) freight thru the Milwaukee Depot in January of 1995.

BN Desert Storm unit #1991 is a ways from home rails as it switches out some cars on the Soo Line (ex-MILW) mainline in Milwaukee. The unit still looks good in this shot from 1995.

Looking a little worse for wear BN's Desert Storm painted SD60M visited BNSF's exSanta Fe Hobart yard in LA

Burlington Northern's specially painted engine for the Gulf War heads South through Colorado Springs leading a pair of GE B30-7AB B-units.

BNSF’s westbound manifest freight that operates on the Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is westbound on the approach to Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on April 5, 1999. Leading... (more)

Burlington Northern's patriotically-painted SD60M no. 1991 takes on an almost ghostly appearance as it rolls east away from the setting sun west of Rozet, Wyoming in July 1991. A pretty wicked sto... (more)

Rare sight in Abo Canyon
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train crosses Bridge 872.2 in Abo Canyon near Sais, New Mexico, on May 21, 1999. The specially-painted Burlington... (more)