Classic Trains – September 2019

68 CLASSIC TRAINS FALL 2019

Code lines glint in evening sunlight and frame a Burlington

Northern freight east near Judson, N.Dak., on July 6, 1980. Silhou-

ettes are a hallmark of Bjorklund’s photography.

During a meet between Burlington Northern trains at Upton, Wyo.,

the conductor of the westbound train waves to the crew of the

eastbound on the evening of July 15, 1980.

A Burlington Northern Geep hauls a single 40-foot boxcar and caboose past fields flooded by spring rain near Gackle, N.Dak., on May 16,

1978. The train, traveling west on a branch line to Streeter, is emblematic of prairie railroading of the era.