Ready to depart Willmar with a GP50/SD9/SD40-2 and one of BN's custom air repeater cars on the head end.
Before the GEVO invasion, an all BN consist of mostly EMD power on a Z train was the quite common.
BNSF 3171 (GP50) runs light to Broomfield, Colorado as it has finished dropping cars off with customers in Lafeyette.
"I don't get no respect." It's pretty much true for the GP50. EMD tried to wring to much power from the 645 and as a result these got sold off or derated before their time. Starting a... (more)
BNSF 3171 (GP50) heads to the house track in Longmont, Colorado where the pair will tie down for the day.
Cars on US 287 hold as BNSF 3171 (GP50) leads the Buck Local as it runs light back to Broomfield, Colorado.
BNSF 3171 (GP50) leads the Buck Local as it heads back to Broomfield, Colorado.
BNSF 3171 (GP50) get ready to cross a busy highway as it heads back to Broomfield, Colorado.
TP&W's "EP-2" crew notches it up as they climb the slight grade on TZPR's Nickel Plate with 40 corn loads for the BioUrja plant in Peoria.
Two former AT&SF motors, including a former GP25 Bluebonnet and B40-8W Warbonnet, sit in the yard in Longmont, Colorado.
A pair of BNSF motors make a light run towards customers in Lafeyette, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.
BNSF 3171 (GP25) passes apartments as it runs south on the Front Range Sub through Broomfield, Colorado.
BNSF 3171 (GP25) runs light with a made on the branch line from the Broomfield Siding and will pick up cars from customers in Lafeyette, Colorado.
BNSF 3171 (GP50) runs light as it rounds the corner of Burkes Hill in Louisville, Colorado.
Heading up the west side of Cajon Pass, and about to enter the first of two tunnels at Alray, is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway intermodal train, pulled by ATSF GP50 3822, SF30C 9504 (ex-U3... (more)
