Burlington Northern renumbering used a standard font (name not known) and size for renumbering diesels and cabooses. On locomotives, the road numbers on the sides were 9″, while the reporting ...

Burlington Northern locomotive number 7151, Type SD40-2, was one of the units used to develop, test and demonstrate the ARES system in northern Minnesota in the 1980s and early '90s.

The “Great Pumpkin” was a test paint scheme following the 1995 BNSF merger between Burlington Northern and Santa Fe. ... This locomotive has two different paint schemes, one on each side for ...

A few years later, the Santa Fe did a mass renumbering of locomotives and 1708 became 5008. When Santa Fe merged with Burlington Northern, newly founded BNSF renumbered it once again as 6308. Since ...

On April 13, 1983, a miscommunication between train crews led to a fatal Burlington Northern train car derailment. Around 4 a.m., a 111-car train and four locomotives barreled into the back of a ...