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Texas State Railroad No. 30 running light at Rusk, TX.
Texas State Railroad No. 30 running light at Rusk, TX.
July 4th, 2026.
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📸: Canon EOS Rebel T7 | Canon EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS II
Santa Fe Sunday. Santa Fe SD45-2 5625's, 5705, an F45 and another SD45-2 are seen descending Cajon Pass westbound as they pass another train at Cajon, California on December 27th 1979. Photo belongs to Ron Hawkins.
Beautiful train cars on display at railway museums across Japan.
Train in India splashing through water logged tracks
Daylight Freedom Special
The American Freedom Train departs Portland, Oregon. Columbia-Deshutes Special here. Southern Pacific 4449 has been repainted in the patriotic 1976 livery. Routed from Portland on March 23, 2002. This 2 day roundtrip is fantastic! Day One is from Portland Union Station to Bend, Oregon. Scenic action over BNSF and Union Pacific rails. Pentrex.
BNSF RW #1984. EMD SD40-2. Denver, Colorado. South Platte River.
Colorado & Southern, Texas Zephyr (Denver - Dallas) in Colorado Springs ©Bruce Black 1966
We're now 1 week away from America's 250th birthday of July 4th 2026. Out of all the railroads that made America 250 engines (be it a patriotic splash of red white and blue, or just stickers on plain corporate liveries), which one stood out to you the most? Here's mine:
BNSF honestly did the best America 250 engines IMO. They're the callback to the Santa Fe's bicentennial engines with one of them (Santa Fe SD45-2 5704) being preserved at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, California.
And since this is the first time BNSF makes a special interest unit instead of just slapping stickers on a locomotive with just a plain old corporate livery, I'm hoping this is a foreshadowing that the railroad will make heritage units soon (Santa Fe, Burlington Northern, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Route, Spokane Portland and Seattle, Colorado and Southern, Frisco, Montana Rail Link, Toledo, Peoria and Western and SPSF).
The evolution of RS11 loco used by National Railways of Mexico (FNM) with the number of #501
BNSF 250s under quite the picturesque sky outside Oakland, NE - 6/25/2026
Happy 250!
Rode the 611 in Staunton VA!
The last surviving class J 4-8-4 type of the 14 built at N&W's Roanoke facility.