BNSF
Author: Aaron Florin
Photo Gallery
BNSF 2121 and 2249 are controlled remotely to do duty making trains.
A quick snap of this relic, a 1950s SD9. Now in Heritage livery and Remote Control Equipped.
Three SD70MACs drag coal to Mobile, AL past East Hoffman.
Three GEs run back-and-forth to add eastbound cars. Midway Hub.
Union Jct.
A pair of SD40s move east, nearing Raymond Ave.
An SD70MAC, assigned to an intermodal train, passes an inbound merchandise train. M-GFDGAL
Slipping by.
Crossing Jamica Blvd.
A daily work train, the SOO 4444, passes a waiting southbound BNSF stack train.
With the sun at its back.
High priority merchandise, led by 960, nears Raymond Ave. Laurel, MT - Galesburg, IL.
Westbound, with a mini-blizzard.
Slowing to stop at Becker, MN.
Passing West Interstate in Fridley. M-LAUNTW
Profile shot.
Coal empties rush past the old Como shops in St. Paul. Locos not seen: BNSF 4328, 840, 9257.
Only pictures of the day.
Movin' cans on the GN Jct.
Westbound at 280.
This BNSF vehicle train rolls by University Ave, while the CP 198 rolls past Shoreham in the background.
A hot eastbound stacker shoots past Talmadge Ave. MP 9.1, track 2.
The regularly short Chicago to Laurel rolls past St. Anthony on the Midway Sub.
Passing Long Lake, MN.
Crossing 35W in Minneapolis.
M-CHCGFD
The new GE ES44AC leads a long, long westbound frieght.
Z-CHILAU
A string of EMDs sit on the east end of Northtown Yards.
An eastbound train passes switching activity.
This empty unit grain train skirts by Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, MN. X-MEMGFD
Crossing over East Hennepin Ave.
A slow order, issued from a track inspector down the line, prompted an inquiry from the conductor.
An SD70MAC leads coal through signals @ Harrison St.
Two big MACs idle on the NSP Spur, outside Becker, MN on the Staples Sub.
Northtown switching.
4455 is a Z-PTLCHI. 4496 is a P-CHISSE.
Second in a trio of GEs. Z-PTLCHI, 04/11/04.
Grain empties heading to the bread basket.
A surprise grain train roars through the Midway Intermodal Terminal, with the help of two leased units.
Loaded with grain, just past the Harrison St. crossing. 04/11/04
A pair of SD70MACs, freshly linked to a third, prepare to head west with a string of coal empties. A rainy night.
Passing green, green grass, 9961 moves coal into Northtown.
Xcel Engery's Riverside plant looms in the background; but this coal isn't for them.
Northwest at track speed.
With BNSF 733, this train moves eastbound.
At posted speed. M-SEAGAL
Z-SSECHI. Leaving Midway.
Z-PTLCHI. An SD60M, with a FURX 8126, the pair pulls through Union yard.
L-NTWMontevideo, MN. This unit crosses MN, and returns in one day - daily. It runs backwards like this to return forward.