GE built 145 B39-8s in 1987-88. The majority of them ended up on the Burlington Northern. BN and Locomotive Management Leasing shared a long-time contract thru LMX Leasing that lasted long into th... (more)

A Conrail unit helps out of BN SD40 as they hustle down the Aurora Sub south of Lynxville. Scanned negative from October 1992.

The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with 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)

Running coal trains thru Galesburg Yard wasn't too common practice. Once in a while, MofW or traffic issues would force the hand, and the trains would run by the roundhouse and out thru Waterman t... (more)

Back in 1994, you seen this coming, and you were like, "just another damn pair of 40's." Well I see alot of people say that now days about the GEVO's and Dash 9's. One thing about the r... (more)

A trio of BN SD40-2's curve around the bluffs as they make their way south along the Mississippi River on the Aurora Sub. The train is working in the section from La Crosse to Savanna. Lynxville i... (more)

4 BN motors bask in the afternoon sunlight as they hammer south along the Mississippi River on the Aurora Sub. The train is working in the section from La Crosse to Savanna. Seen here passing lock... (more)

As the BN started getting DP-AC power, they started messing around with DP-ing heavy units trains across their network. Late in 1995 they started testing stuff out on their taconite trains out of ... (more)

Westbound intermodal train has a pair of brand new H-1 Dash 9's for power. The train is about to crossover to main #1 at East Cabin in East Dubuque. The train is operating on the Aurora Sub betwee... (more)

A westbound freight train out of Galesburg fights the winter weather as they make their way towards Creston, IA, and onto Lincoln, NE. The train is about 10 miles out of Galesburg as they near Mon... (more)

A loaded potash train heads south out of Galesburg. The train has run thru Soo Line power. The train is seen here on the main that runs around the yard. This train probably came to the BN at St. P... (more)

An eastbound coal train is dragging upgrade out of Ottumwa. The train is about to pass thru Agency, about 5 miles east of Ottumwa. These BN days were still mainly C30-7's and SD40's to move the gr... (more)