Autos On The Transcon | Led by a "warbonnet" dash-9 and an "executive" SD70MAC, an automobile train from Chicago rolls through Kansas City, MO on the relatively cool evening of Saturday, Au... (more)
Urban Orange | As a cloudy sky clears up on the afternoon of Saturday, August 10, 2024, a BNSF grain train headed from Iowa to California rolls through Kansas City, MO. A bright orange trum... (more)
Like a scene from the Northwest, a Red Tail Hawk flys over as BNSF 6506 with a rear DPU pull the G107 loaded grain train through the Town of Rotterdam rounding the curve at Burdeck Street.
In a railroad world dominated by GE wide-nosed six-axle power for the past 35 or so years, it is always nice to encounter something a bit different. I was stoked to find GP30s and SD40-2s as loca... (more)
BNSF 9163 (SD70ACe) pushes a freight through the cut on the siding in Broomfield, Colorado.
A pair of BNSF Geeps – GP60 161 (previously BNSF 8702, originally ATSF 4002) and GP60M 126 (formerly ATSF 126) – are getting prepped for use on the railway's Third La Mirada local, as a crewma... (more)
Rolling eastward across the expansive prairies, having just crossed from Colorado into Nebraska, is BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-DENCHC3-25U, ferrying trailers and containers from Denv... (more)
Having returned to McCook Yard for the day, BNSF Railway "GP39-3" 2548 (built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in March 1963 as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP30 1221, which was l... (more)
Moving another trainload (135-cars) of coal out of the Powder River Basin, BNSF SD70ACe locomotives 9327 and 8537 (with two more SD70ACes - 8406 and 8594 - on the rear) split the signals in Anselm... (more)
BNSF 6685 (ES44C4) highballs a stack train through Roggen, Colorado as it heads east on the Brush Sub.
A pair of BNSF ACe motors leads a freight through Tonville, Colorado as it heads west on the Brush Sub.
BNSF 9018 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train through Keenesburg, Colorado as it heads west on the Brush Sub.
A BNSF Z Train includes two Boeing 737 fuselages that are being sent for final assembly.
A westbound manifest takes the siding at West Alton on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.
Empty grainer blasts through Bay City.