Highest numbered SD70MAC on the BNSF roster, 9999 working as a remote DPU unit on a westbound empty hopper train shoving through the S-curve at Balfour Iowa.

Four of a kind
On BNSF, the locomotive road number doesn’t get any bigger than this. On September 21, 2009, BNSF EMD SD70MAC No. 9999 is the trailing DPU on the rear of a coal train ... (more)

Snow flurries continue to fall as an empty coal train races up and down Berthoud Hill just outside of Berthoud, CO. The train was emptied at Georgia Power's Scherer Plant in Juliette, GA and will ... (more)

Coal empties head west out of Minneapolis.

A BNSF coal train roars down the UP's Midlothian Sub shortly after departing Ney Yard.

The sun, the diesel exhaust, the heat blur, and BNSF 9999 come together to bring you this photo of an eastbound coal train.

Nice engine number.