BNSF SD60M 1416 works a trim job in Galesburg.

BNSF 720 sits next to the Galesburg station on display for Railroad Days.

Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

On a beautiful spring morning an EB freight roars thru the famous railroad town. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Not sure why this train was here with the "Pooch" and the Superliners. The P30CHs originally had steam generators so this one may have had hotel power added. Either way they were hard ... (more)

Power move at the BNSF Galesburg yard.

BNSF SD60M 1416 works a trim job in Galesburg.

BNSF U-MNXDPK7-03A in Galesburg

BNSF Q-LACNSA3-08A passing the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy Station in Galesburg

Nice set of different geeps stroll thru Galesburg enroute to Chicago. Scanned Slide from February 1996.

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)

Running coal trains thru Galesburg Yard wasn't too common practice. Once in a while, MofW or traffic issues would force the hand, and the trains would run by the roundhouse and out thru Waterman t... (more)