BNSF 2025 Spring Photo Contest

Rail photographers, it’s time to show off your favorite shots of springtime featuring BNSF trains! Post your photos to your INSTAGRAM, TWITTER or the Friends of BNSF group on FACEBOOK no later than midnight Central time on Monday, May 12. 

Be sure to include the hashtag #BNSFspringphoto in your posts so we can find them. Judges at BNSF will select first, second and third place winners and we’ll announce them in late May or early June. Good luck, have fun and be safe!

Prizes:

Winners and selected entries will be displayed on BNSF’s website (www.bnsf.com) and on BNSF’s social media channels.

To be considered, photos must:

  • Be your own work. Contributor represents that he/she owns all right, title and interest to the photos (“Work”), he/she is the original author of the Work, and the Work does not infringe upon the rights, including intellectual property rights, of any others.
  • Show at least one BNSF train including lead locomotive with current BNSF paint scheme.
  • Include the hashtag #BNSFspringphoto in the caption.
  • Be taken during spring weather in the years 2022-2025.
  • Be taken safely with appropriate spring precautions, and from a location clearly outside of railroad property and posing no danger or risk of injury to you or others. Photos that appear to possibly have been taken within the railroad right-of-way or inside a rail yard or facility will not be considered.

Additional rules:

  • Contributor of entries designated as winner or honorable mention consents to the use by BNSF Railway Company, its agents and their successors and assigns (“BNSF”) of the Work described above, in whole or in part, individually or in conjunction with other content, in any medium now known or later developed, including the Contributor’s likeness, name, biography, comments, and/or voice (“Contribution”). Such use may be in any BNSF brochure, calendar or magazine, news release, video or broadcasting, social media platform or other BNSF-produced or authorized promotional, public relations and advertising material.
  • BNSF may copy, publish and distribute Contributions designated as winners or honorable mentions, and make derivative works based upon the Contribution all as part of or in connection with BNSF-produced or authorized promotional, public relations and advertising material.
  • Contributor must be a U.S. resident aged 18 or older.
  • BNSF employees are not eligible to participate.
  • Void where prohibited.
  • Multiple entries are allowed.
  • All Work Contributor wishes to submit may be shared by BNSF on BNSF's social media channels (FACEBOOK, LINKED IN, TWITTER/X and INSTAGRAM), on BNSF’s website bnsf.com, internal communications channels, or in email newsletters; by submitting entries to this contest and accepting recognition as a winner or honorable mention, you grant BNSF permission to do this.
  • Prizes will be substituted if supplies run out.
  • This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with FACEBOOK, LINKED IN, INSTAGRAM or TWITTER/X.
  • Contributor agrees to release and hold harmless BNSF, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER/X, FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN, their directors, officers, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, representatives, agents, successors and assigns from any liability arising out of Contributor’s participation in or the inclusion or appearance of the Contribution in a publication, advertisement, broadcast and/or promotion.
  • Contributor releases and waives any claims based on rights of privacy, rights of publicity or so-called "moral rights," in connection with the use of his/her likeness, name, biography, comments, and/or voice.
  • The laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to its principles of conflicts of law, will govern the parties’ performance under this Agreement and any adversarial proceedings arising out of the Agreement. The federal and state courts in the State of Texas are the exclusive venue for all adversarial matters arising out of this Agreement. The parties hereby waive any argument that the federal and state courts in the State of Texas are an inconvenient forum.