A rare sight these days in Denver is an 'old school' Heritage I Dash 9 unit waiting for an assignment in the holding area at the engine servicing facility in downtown Denver.
The yard of the BNSF engine servicing facility is fuller than usual, and of note is the Heritage I Dash 9 engine sitting on point (BNSF 1043).
A westward crude oil empties train is seen from across the river passing Lock 13. Powering this train are three BNSF motors including one in the railroad's H1 paint scheme.
A classic BNSF H1 leader takes an empty oil train back west for more oil.
H1 C44-9W leads southbound K train down the River sub.
Here we see the three different Heritage schemes on the BNSF fleet. BNSF 1043 in Heritage I, BNSF 5739 in the Heritage II, and BNSF 7919 in the Heritage III.
A beautiful late fall afternoon sees the quiet sounds of downtown Marshall broken as westbound 135 cruises through town with a trio of foreign power.
Now throttling up after passing through downtown Wayzata. BNSF 1043 will now closely parallel the new Hwy 12 bypass for the next several miles through Long Lake. Photo taken from the Luce Line St... (more)
A BNSF coal train bound for Portland General Electric's Boardman Power Plant is just south of Marengo,WA on UP's Ayer Sub in the waning light of 11/20/04
Check out the sky--storm light on the way!
Always a welcome sight on the mainline, a Goatboat Dash 9 leads an intermodal westbound through Commerce and ultimately the Los Angeles Harbor.
A unit train loaded with wind generator assemblies crawls upgrade through the Clear Creek drainage between Bealville and Cliff. The head end has just emerged from Tunnel 5 while the cars in the f... (more)
Pumpkin H1 1043 is up front on this westbound stack train as it leads an H2 B40-8W and a pair of Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9's through Coal City.
Heritage 1 Pumpkin 1043 leads an NS SD70M-2 and an NS Dash 9 westbound through Mazon.