Koi Fish at Swarthout Canyon Road - A decade ago a railran was hard pressed to see a BNSF EMD SD70 ACe rolling down the hill into the Los Angeles basin.
While UP brought this model into the South Coast Air Quality Management District often, BNSF chose to keep them up North hauling coal stings in the Powder River Basin.
Fast forward ten or twelve years to the demise of big coal and the Chinese industrial machine, now it seems BNSF has an overabundance of motive power.
Consequently, the Koi fish are as abundant as GEVO's in the basin, and in fact, two of the four units on this stack drag are ACes.
Oh how times change in the Pass.
