(rshsdepot) BNSF Railway Historic Photos Now Available Online

["Bernie Wagenblast" <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>]

The BNSF has started placing some of its historical photos online.  A quick
check shows there are some station photos online, but there doesn't appear
to be an index or easy way to search for specific pictures.

 

The news release below provides more details.  

 

Bernie Wagenblast

Transportation Communications Newsletter

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/ 

 

 

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BNSF Railway Historic Photos Now Available Through Index Stock


Selections from the BNSF Railway archival photo collection are now available
online for the first time, at photos.bnsf.com. 

More than 170 historic images are available now, and new images are being
added continually. Photos include such subjects as Northern Pacific trains
of the 1870s, Great Northern steam engines of the 1920s, and the famous
Santa Fe Super Chief. 

Collectors can purchase everything from prints and mouse pads to coffee mugs
featuring images of classic locomotives, trains and railroad scenes. The
images also are available for editorial or commercial publication through
Index Stock Imagery at
PHOTOGCODE">www.indexstock.com/store/search.asp?SearchStr=///direct4118PHOTO
GCODE. 

The BNSF archival photo gallery is organized by predecessor railroad, era,
and type of train or locomotive. Among the available photos are images of
all major BNSF predecessor railroads, along with all types of trains and
other aspects of railroading, including people and stations. 

Please see BNSF Railway Company History section of this news release for
more information on BNSF Railway's history and the predecessor railroads
represented in the historic photo collection. 

About BNSF Railway Company 

A subsidiary of Burlington
<http://industrywatch.yellowbrix.com/pages/iw/customer/coOverview.nsp?coID=1
63&ID=iw&scategory=Transportation%3ARail&>  Northern Santa Fe Corporation
(NYSE: BNI
<http://industrywatch.yellowbrix.com/pages/iw/customer/coQuote.nsp?coID=163&;
ID=iw&scategory=Transportation%3ARail&> ), BNSF Railway Company operates one
of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about
32,000-route-miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is
among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain
than any other North American railroad, transports the components of many of
the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulphur coal to
generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States.
BNSF Railway is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer
transactions at www.bnsf.com. 

About Index Stock 

Index Stock Imagery, Inc.(TM) The Independent Choice For Your Imagination,
is an award winning and innovative supplier of photographs, illustrations,
and digital images. It represents over 1,700 professional photographers and
80 independent still image providers and has agents in 70 foreign countries.
It represents dozens of domestic collections and has 1,000,000 images
available online. Index was the first stock agency to begin storing and
distributing images electronically. It started scanning its collection in
1992 and launched its first e-commerce site in 1994. Index's million-image
library is one of the largest and most complete collections of commercially
available images in the world. Its four major Web sites,
http://www.indexstock.com, http://www.indexopen.com,
http://www.photostogo.com, and www.photostogounlimited.com, support
emailable lightboxes, e-commerce shopping, prints, posters, postcards, cell
phone wallpapers, and customized price grids and high-res comps, for
qualified customers in the high end design, Web marketing, small business
and consumer marketplaces. Index Open and Photostogo Unlimited are
subscription services offering access to over 80,000 high-quality images for
a set monthly price. 

Index Stock Imagery, Inc. is a registered trademark. For more information on
the Company, please visit its corporate Web site at
www.indexstockimagery.com. 

BNSF Railway Company History 

Today's BNSF Railway is a product of 390 different merged lines. The oldest
and largest predecessor was the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
(CB&Q), founded in 1849. The first train went from Batavia to Turner
Junction (now West Chicago). This line operated the first printing telegraph
in 1910. It also introduced the first diesel-powered streamlined passenger
train. 

The Burlington Northern Railroad was created in1970, with the merger of four
primary lines: CB&Q, the Northern Pacific (NP), the Great Northern (GN), and
the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (SP&S). Each played an important role in
developing America's west. The NP was created by an Act of Congress, signed
into law by President Lincoln in 1864. It followed much of the Lewis & Clark
route, opening up the uncharted West. 

In 1901 the NP and the GN purchased the CB&Q, providing access to Chicago,
the Midwest and South. By 1905 the SP&S was built to serve as a GN and NP
link. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, known as the Frisco,
suffered everything from the Civil War to the Great Depression, adding to
its rich history before it became part of Burlington Northern in 1980. 

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (AT&SF) name stayed intact from 1863 to
1995, when it merged with Burlington Northern to create BNSF Railway. It
played a key role in promoting art and culture in the southwest.


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