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| 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: |
90 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
83 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
89 Comments: 3 |
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| 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: |
99 Comments: 1 |
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