The wind gusts as an extra GALCHI cruises towards Chicago with a BN SD40 up front. A nice accommodation to this old, and presumably abandoned, grain elevator.
Riding rails once belonging to former pre-merger rival Santa Fe, the cascade green and white colors of fallen flag giant Burlington Northern in the form of "Whiteface" SD40-2 #1706 make an appeara... (more)
L-CHI105 passes the old Santa Fe depot in Mazon, IL with a whiteface BN SD40-2 leading.
Another L CHI105 heads west over the Des Plaines River in Lemont, this one with a pair of Cascade green BN SD40-2's sandwiching an H3 SD60M.
A former BN SD40-2 leads a very colorful Local 105 west out of Joliet.
BNSF 1706, in BN paint, leads a shuttle train through Colona.
A former BN SD40-2 leads M-CHIGAL west through Lockport.
As other various power sits around, today's L CHI105 waits to make its shove move at GM Yard in Hodgkins. A Cascade green SD40-2 leads the way on this nice evening.
It's been almost 23 years since the date of the BNSF merger, and here's a consist right out of the post merger days. A former BN "white-face" SD40-2 is followed by a unit in BNSF herita... (more)
A BN SD40-2 leads the L-CHI101 flip job back West to Galesburg, IL.
BN SD40-2's 1706, 1915 and 1861 make a for a great trio in 2016. On a separate switch job, a quad of SD40-2's (Heritage 1's 1842/1967 and Cascade greens 1958/1937) await the next assignment.
