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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
4/30/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: BNSF Railway
Model:GE C44-9WBuilt As:BNSF 5238 (C44-9W)
Serial Number:53778Order No:1948
Frame Number: Built:4/2002
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 5238(C44-9W)
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Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  A westbound stack led by BNSF 4680 waits for a signal now that hes met the eastbound, behind whom he is now peeking out as the last car passes.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 2/28/2019 5:23:37 AM
Location:  Pierce City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Days of Future Past
Title:  Days of Future Past
Description:  With apologies to the Moody Blues....the new order, in the form of a BNSF GE pulling a stack train, passes a relic of the past in the shape of an old Frisco caboose as the westbound stack rolls west with 123 platforms.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 2/28/2019 5:53:03 AM
Location:  Pierce City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
Pseudo station
Title:  Pseudo station
Description:  The folks in Pierce City, in homage to their Frisco past, built this city building to look like a train station. It makes a nice prop, even if its not part of the railroad.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 2/28/2019 5:54:34 AM
Location:  Pierce City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
Racing
Title:  Racing
Description:  Actually, not hardly. The engineer had reported a problem to the dispatcher, and he was slowing for an approach signal, stopping at the other end of the siding to check something. Hed move again about 20 minutes later.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 2/28/2019 6:03:40 AM
Location:  Racine, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
The bells of St Marys
Title:  The bells of St Marys
Description:  Our westbound stacker waits in the company of St Marys Catholic Church. Its prayers will be answered shortly as an eastbound comes by, allowing it to once again proceed west.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 2/28/2019 6:00:10 AM
Location:  Pierce City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Into the sun
Title:  Into the sun
Description:  I caught this guy at Monett, and chased him to Racine. Here he is approaching the KCS diamond in Neosho, passing the home signal at the west end of Jeff.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 3/1/2019 4:57:59 AM
Location:  Neosho, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
Gate down
Title:  Gate down
Description:  The crossing at the end of the siding, Lime Kiln Rd, crosses at an oblique angle, so the gate falls perpendicular to the road, and not exactly parallel to the tracks. So I caught it in this shot of the westbound passing the eastbound home signal. Oh well....this is what TRP calls "close but no cigar."
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 3/1/2019 5:02:16 AM
Location:  Neosho, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  124   Comments: 1
East meets west
Title:  East meets west
Description:  The eastbound stack meets the westbound stack in what was the station area in town, now mostly an empty lot. The eastbound is almost done with its cross country trip, the westbound just getting into the meat of it. Hell be a lot farther west in several hours. Maybe not Amarillo by morning, but maybe overnight. BNSF doesnt waste any time with these trains.
Photo Date:  2/23/2019  Upload Date: 3/1/2019 5:26:36 AM
Location:  Pierce City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8325(ES44C4) BNSF 5318(C44-9W) BNSF 4680(C44-9W) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6260(ES44AC)
Views:  190   Comments: 1
Good light helps
Title:  Good light helps
Description:  Sunday morning on the way to LA. Good good light on this westbound, making for a decent photo.
Photo Date:  3/10/2019  Upload Date: 4/17/2019 5:22:24 AM
Location:  Yucca, AZ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6260(ES44AC) BNSF 8329(ES44C4) BNSF 5238(C44-9W) BNSF 6684(ES44C4)
Views:  190   Comments: 3


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