A southbound mixed freight passes through downtown Memphis on BNSF Thayer South Sub main 1.

BNSF 4378, with an unpatched Santa Fe Warbonnet, leads the U SEMBIR though town as it crosses Knight Arnold Road near the Memphis International Airport.

BNSF 4050 Some pumpkins coming up the hill.

On a rainy day in Memphis BNSF 5633 leads this empty coal train, NS 735, along the Long John track through NS Forrest Yard.

BNSF grain train (G BREMEM9 01A) has been brought to Industrial Avenue, on CN's Memphis Sub, for a transfer to the Canadian National just outside Johnston Yard.

East meets West at Kentucky Street. Actually BNSF 4165 is timetable South as it heads East into Memphis. Engine 8954 is moving West (Timetable North) with an empty coal train.

A pair of BNSF geeps (BNSF 2679 & 3100) lead a string of empty well cars into Memphis from Marion, Arkansas.

BNSF 3740 is out front of a mixed freight, with several military flat cars, as it approaches CN Junction on BNSF main 1 in Memphis.

a loaded BNSF Taconite Train making it's way to Allouez for unloading. GE and an Oakway upfront with a Santa Fe Warbonnet in the rear in DPU mode. here the DPU passes under the WI Hwy 35 overpass on the Allouez Sub

An empty Miller coal train leaves Memphis on BNSF main1 as it passes under the signals at CN Junction.

The orange glow of a setting sun lights up the BNSF 6070 as it brings empty coal train E-MHSBKM0-52A down BNSF main 2 west towards Arkansas.

The Kansas City - Memphis train rolls south through Marion, Arkansas, on the BNSF Thayer South Sub. BNSF 782 sports Warbonnet paint in the second position of the consist.

It's a cold winter day in Memphis, as BNSF engine 7943 is the trailing DPU on a northbound coil car train leaving town on the Frisco Bridge. UP has brought a loaded coal into the city to interchange with the CN but is tied down just off the Harahan Bridge awaiting clearance to proceed.

BNSF 7577 West leads a long westbound into Ludlow on the Needles Sub as sunset approaches on May 04, 2013. Photo by Matthew Griffin.

Entering Memphis on BNSF main 1, engine 8181 leads a southbound intermodal past the Kansas Street Lead approaching Kentucky Street.

BNSF 8321 - a GE ES44C4 - leads a double stack Q Train through Galesburg, Illinois on the Chillicothe Subdivision in March 2015. Photo by Tom Farence.

BNSF 7273 leads a stack train west into the setting sun.

17 boxcars are at the front of a train of double-stacks.

BNSF 3874, a GE ET44C4, and BNSF 8573, an EMD SD70ACe, are seen in the BNSF yard at Pasco, Washington.

Coming off a Mississippi River crossing on the Frisco Bridge, BNSF 5116 leads a southbound train past Kentucky Street in Downtown Memphis.