Former BN #1680 (SD40-2) gets repositioned in the Denver Yard to grab another cut of freight cars for sorting.

A pair of veteran BN units, with a combined 97 years of service, wait for orders to go shuffle freight cars in the Denver Yard. BNSF 1680 was built in 1973 for the Burlington Northern and BNSF 28... (more)

Having spent the morning switching the Swan Ranch Railroad interchange at Speer, WY BNSF's Swan Ranch local returns to town behind a pair of former BN SD40-2s. The train is approaching the old 'C&... (more)

It's a good day when you can find a couple of original former BN cascade green SD40-2's in the Denver engine servicing yard. 1680 was built in March of 1973 and BNSF 1933 was built in January of ... (more)

A pair of cascade green SD40-2s bring BNSF's returning Swan Ranch Local back to Cheyenne, crossing the 'C&S' bridge over old US30 and Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision at Tower A (west Cheyenne)... (more)

BNSF 1680 (SD40-2) makes a late evening run from the UP's 36th Street Yard and takes an oil can train to the Denver Yard.

On this day in the BNSF engine servicing yard there are a couple of Union Pacific engines nestled with the BNSF power. A far more common sight from what I have observed than seeing BNSF engines i... (more)

Three SD40-2s lead the Longmont Switch back into Longmont after working at North Yard and Loveland picking up cars from the Great Western Railway.

Three SD40-2s waste no time bringing in the Longmont Switch back into Longmont with a decent size train from Fort Collins.

The Longmont Switch comes back from Fort Collins into Longmont with a BN SD40-2, ATSF SD40-2, BN GP50, and BN GP39E. Not one orange unit to be seen...Just the way I like it.

Having completed its work picking up old rail on the Pueblo Subdivision, this set of EMD power now sees action in the BNSF yard sorting cars behind the artistic Arkansas River levee built in the e... (more)

A pair of Cascade Green ex-Burlington Northern locomotives rest on the fuel track in the BNSF yard in Pueblo. This set of locomotives had been Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Pueblo, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 1680
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 11, 2011

Former BNSF GP9 #1680 sits on display at the Texas Railroad & Heritage Museum, located at the former Santa Fe Depot in Temple. The GP9 rolled out of EMD's Lagrange, IL plant in April of 1957 as A... (more)