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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
2/1/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Burlington Northern
Model:EMD GP39-2Built As:BN 2706 (GP39-2)
Serial Number:806037-7Order No:806037
Frame Number:806037-7Built:0/1981
Notes:BNSF 2706(GP39-2)
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 2706(GP39-2) BN 2706(GP39-2)
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Cab hop
Title:  Cab hop
Description:  BN was not shy about running freight in with its commuter rush, even a lowly local. This one is returning from Eola caboose light at the tail end of the evening rush.
Photo Date:  6/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/13/2015 4:29:39 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BN 2706(GP39-2)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Dodging the dinkies
Title:  Dodging the dinkies
Description:  BN was not shy about rŽining freights during rush hour, and it was commoo to see several during the hours when commuter trains ran every couple of minutes. Even locals got a shot, such as this caboose hop heading back to Clyde.
Photo Date:  6/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/14/2015 1:29:30 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom!Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BN 2706(GP39-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Headed to Eola
Title:  Headed to Eola
Description:  A local behind a GP 39 rolls west in between the commuter trains with a couple dozen cars for the yard at Eola, out near Aurora. Just another trian to the dispatchers.
Photo Date:  6/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/14/2015 1:31:46 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BN 2706(GP39-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0


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