A westbound BNSF Z train hustles along the shore of the Mississippi at the Palisades.
Three EMDs on a Z-train in 2009? Thanks to some of the BNSF GEVOs being taken out of service, a few EMDs are back out of storage.
Z St. Paul - Chicago arrived the Cicero Intermodal Ramp with a nice pair of warbonnet SD75Ms.
SD75M 228, 105, 93 (SDFP45), & Conrail 6019 westbound manifest passing Bealville on the descent to Caliente in the Tehachapis, 25/3/96. ©www.railphotoprints.co.uk - John Chalcraft Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: EMD SD75MLocation: Tehachapi, California, USALocomotive #: ATSF 228Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: March 25, 1996
The SD75Ms have come back out to play do to several turbocharger problems in the Gevo locomotives.
SD75M 8256 leads 604, 4557 & 751 past Woodford with an eastbound doublestack, 23/04/02. ©www.railphotoprints.co.uk - John ChalcraftRailroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: EMD SD75MLocation: Tehachapi, California, USALocomotive #: BNSF 8256Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April 23, 2002
These three SD75s have been separated from the herd of stored locomotives at Northtown. Back to work for this trio?
Sign of the times. Although there are older, obsolete models represented in the deadlines at Northtown, SD75s have been added to the growing list of sidelined units.
The deadlines continue to grow at Northtown with the fairly recent addition of the majority of the BNSF SD75 fleet. Other models represented here are SD60Ms, a GP60B, SD40-2s, and SD45-2s.
A stack train waits for clearance.
An EMD leading that is now probably in storage.
The last train I catch on my trip to AZ is a good one as a clean warbonnet leads the way west through Kingman Canyon in a scene that could just a easily pass for 1995.
Corwith is a working museum of BNSF power.
NS 18M with BNSF 8249, and NS 6666 head out of town, about to pass under Rohr Rd on the NS Columbus District.
