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The BNSF Railway was created by the 1995 merger of the Atchison,
Topeka, and Santa Fe (ATSF) and the Burlington Northern (BN) systems.
Originally, the official name was "Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway" but
was simplified in 2005 to the initials only, BNSF. BNSF's component
systems included transcontinental routes in the northwestern and
southwestern US, with massive quantities of intermodal traffic. Energy
and agricultural products are other major commodities shipped. (More
details available at the official
BNSF site.)
For the scope of this website: I am endeavoring to post BNSF
action and scenic photographs primarily from lines in the Mountain time
zone. The former AT&SF transcon route
between Chicago and Los Angeles passes through New Mexico and Arizona,
averaging a hundred trains per day. Up in Colorado, BNSF has trackage rights
on Union Pacific's Central Corridor route between Denver and Stockton, CA.
Also in Colorado, BNSF operates dozens of trains per day on the Joint Line
between Denver and Pueblo. Coal trains originate in Wyoming and travel
through Colorado to Texas power plants, and the railroad handles a fair amount of freight to
and from Denver. And in New Mexico, NAFTA trains travel south from
Belen through Las Cruces and El Paso to Mexico and back. This line is
also host to some unit coal trains.
You will also find a number of pages of equipment roster shots. The
equipment pages are not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, they are intended to display a representative
sample, over time, so that one can get a flavor for the railroad's
equipment.
More content will be added as I ransack the archives, and as railfanning
occurs.
Follow the links on the table at left to see photos of BNSF trains in
action, and to see portraits of equipment.
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See some of my BNSF videos on my
YouTube channel. This
collection should grow with time. |
