All three variants of the SD60 operated on BNSF rails are lined up elephant style and doing what they love: taking an empty coal train back to the mines. The third locomotive is the famed "Great P... (more)
Lots of eastbound action on the Staples Sub this morning, here a Triclops leads coal through the S-curves at Lake Park.
Loaded coal slowly making its way east out of the Red River Valley with an Oakway SD60 splicing a pair of whiteface Triclops.
An ex-BN "triclops" leads a coal train east over the Mississippi River bridge at MP 119.1
The Chana Grain Elevator Dwarfs this stack train as it speeds west.
ex-BN 9243 blows by the CB&Q searchlights in Oregon after crossing the Rock River.
BN 9243, a three windowed SD60M, teams up with an MRL SD45 as they race westbound with a stack train.
As snow chunks fall from the sky, a chunk of green in the form of a BN three-window-piece SD60M leads MRL SD45 315, and a BN SD40-2 eastbound through the Springs on a grain train.
Ah cold temps return. The SD45 billows white smoke as it throttles up, then black exhaust.
BNSF 9243.
An SD60M "triclops" leads a westbound general merchandise train through Verndale
2 EMD's are pulling out of Staples. Always fun to find an old 3 window SD60M pulling something other than coal.