BNSF 4031 leads a freight eastbound out of the yard at Aberdeen. The Virginian Heritage Unit, NS 1069, was inconveniently hidden behind the white tank at the service rack to the right.
Always happy to find colorful consists like this 17 years after the merger. This set of locomotives will be the power for the Sunday southbound local to Mitchell, SD.
Sometimes you find cool things that come full circle... BNSF 2051 started life in 10/1966 as Milwaukee Road GP40 #199. Through unrelated purchases by the BN and BNSF, this geep is once agai... (more)