Burlington Northern train 3 hurries westbound through Eola, Illinois, on a sunny December 23, 1988. Tiger-stripe EMD GP50 No. 3124 and a cabless GE B30-7AB unit power the Seattle-bound piggyback t... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)

Beginning its trek across the country to Seattle, Burlington Northern train 3 passes the old passenger station at Rochelle, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 16, 1992. BN EMD SD40-2 No. 7217 and a... (more)

A beautiful fall afternoon greets the crew of train 3 as it cruises along Puget Sound at Carkeek Park with an unusual lashup of an LMX Dash 8 40B, MPI SD45 and B30-7A. Actually the unusual was sor... (more)

Lipstick on a pig. LMX lease units were not the most beautiful locomotive to ever grace BN, but on the point of train 3, the red nose seemed to tie in with the intense light and fall colors as the... (more)

On the late summer day of September 5, 1987, Burlington Northern train No. 3 speeds through Polo, Illinois. Three “tiger-stripe” EMD GP50s splicing a fuel tender are power for the hot train he... (more)

It was a hot and humid summer day along the Mississippi at Alma, WI. You could cut the air with a knife. All was quiet until a headlight showed up around the corner. I thought a year earlier it wo... (more)

Triple tigers in triple track
Burlington Northern train No. 3 flies westbound on the “Racetrack” main line at La Grange, Illinois, on November 22, 1986. Three EMD “Tiger Stripe”... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 flies through a cut west of Oregon, Illinois, on August 22, 1987. Powered by two EMD GP50s in “Tiger Stripes,” splicing a fuel tender and a GE B30-7A (B-unit), toda... (more)

BN train 3, once known as the Pacific Zip, bends around a curve through the rock outcroppings just west of Deception Creek, high up in the ewst slope of the Cascade Mountains near Scenic. This tra... (more)

Former GN F45, BN 6603 follows GN practice of running locos long hood front after the lead SD45 had an axle failure at Quincy, WA. Train 3, BN's hottest train was only delayed about 15 minutes whi... (more)

During the later 70's into the 80's at LaCrosse, the BN had a pair of hot westbound TOFC/COFC trains that normally arrived right around sunset. These were trains 3(to Seattle) and 13(to Portland) ... (more)