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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: BNSF Railway
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:ATSF 5103 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:786219-33Order No:786219
Frame Number:786219-33Built:10/1979
Notes:Ex-ATSF
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 6762(SD40-2) ATSF 5103(SD40-2) BNSF 1643(SD40-2)
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Early switching
Title:  Early switching
Description:  When I arrived at the station around 0800, this SD 40-2 was working the yard. Time was, this was prime road power. now demoted to yard service.
Photo Date:  12/9/2023  Upload Date: 12/18/2023 6:04:26 AM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1643(SD40-2)
Views:  39   Comments: 1
At the station
Title:  At the station
Description:  The 1643 pulls its cut of cars up for headroom, posing by the Railrunner station sign.
Photo Date:  12/9/2023  Upload Date: 12/18/2023 6:08:35 AM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1643(SD40-2)
Views:  31   Comments: 1
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  A westbound stack has his ditch lights on, and is starting to roll out of the fuel pad as an eastbound clears Belen Jct and heads into his fuel pad.
Photo Date:  12/9/2023  Upload Date: 12/21/2023 6:10:32 AM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7704(ES44DC) BNSF 1643(SD40-2)
Views:  34   Comments: 3
Switching the stacks
Title:  Switching the stacks
Description:  Sunday morning found the same unit, BNSF 1643, with a cut of double stacks, which it was shoving into a yard track. Belen is not only a major class yard, but is also used for block swapping.
Photo Date:  12/10/2023  Upload Date: 12/18/2023 6:18:44 AM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1643(SD40-2)
Views:  41   Comments: 1


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