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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: |
42 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: |
33 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: |
38 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: |
44 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Albuquerque transfer |
| Description: |
A transfer bringing in intermodal from the Albuquerque ramp rolls into Belen Jct off the El Paso Sub while the Railrunner waits for time. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2023 Upload Date: 12/22/2023 6:07:03 AM |
| Location: |
Belen, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NMRX 106(MP36PH-3C) BNSF 1841(SD40-2) BNSF 1918(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
68 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Granger scene |
| Description: |
A westbound passes the elevator at St Francis, a scene played out all over the high plains. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/2001 Upload Date: 1/26/2014 2:56:50 AM |
| Location: |
st francis, TX |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6713(SD40-2) BNSF 6342(SD40-2) BNSF 7129(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
493 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Stacks for the coast |
| Description: |
A westbound stack train, one of many on the line, rolls through the signals at Fargo OK. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2008 Upload Date: 8/4/2016 3:11:51 AM |
| Location: |
Fargo, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5064(C44-9W) BNSF 6381(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
239 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound passing the competition |
| Description: |
Actually, we've gone so far as to join the enemy. I saw more of our boxes on the trains than on the road. On that line, the truck also makes for a poor railfan chase vehicle-just can't keep up!! |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/2001 Upload Date: 1/26/2014 3:00:39 AM |
| Location: |
st francis, TX |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6713(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
167 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound pigs |
| Description: |
There are a smattering of non coal trains on the line to Alliance, a couple of intermodals and merchandise trains, notably the train that carries 737 fuselages to Seattle for Boeing. Heres one of the intermodals. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1999 Upload Date: 3/9/2014 3:44:18 AM |
| Location: |
Broken Bow, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ATSF 568(B40-8W) BN 9282(SD60M) BNSF 6714(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
611 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Its not all intermodal |
| Description: |
A westbound grain train rolls past behind a set of second tier power. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2008 Upload Date: 8/4/2016 3:15:05 AM |
| Location: |
Shattuck, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6965(SD40-2) BNSF 6786(SD40-2) BNSF 6798(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
304 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7066 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/21/2002 Upload Date: 10/13/2013 12:14:34 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7066(SD40-2) BNSF 6795(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
309 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just pulled up at the crossing. |
| Description: |
We were driving east on Tx 22 when the gates went down. I always have the camera under the front seat, so I was ready, and we have a pair of H 1 painted units leading this northbound, with a Warbonnet B40 trailing. Dont leave home without it!! |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2007 Upload Date: 7/8/2016 3:59:21 AM |
| Location: |
Meridian, TX |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8046(SD40-2) BNSF 6929(SD40-2) FURX 3052(SD40-2) BNSF 558(B40-8W) |
| Views: |
518 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Skyway |
| Description: |
A pair of BN units on NS seen from the Chicago Skyway. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/2000 Upload Date: 2/3/2014 1:24:52 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7031(SD40-2) BNSF 8088(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
351 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
From the road |
| Description: |
For a stretch, the Transcon runs next to OK 15, making for easy shots, though not always the most scenic. An eastbound passes a westbound near Fargo. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2008 Upload Date: 8/4/2016 3:17:18 AM |
| Location: |
Fargo, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7242(SD40-2) BNSF 7879(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
170 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bucolic paradise |
| Description: |
One of the prettier places is off the shoulder of MO 59 near Granby, where the ex Frisco rolls past this rustic looking barn. The problem is, the highway is four lane divided, and you cant really just perch here and wait, which can sometimes be a while. I got lucky this day to catch a train as I reached this spot. A pair of Frisco SD 45s, or quartet of Fs would have really made the shot, but Im about 40 years too late. Ill take BN green, though on this 81 car eastbound. |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/2007 Upload Date: 12/31/2017 4:49:14 AM |
| Location: |
Granby, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8035(SD40-2) BNSF 6301(SD40u) |
| Views: |
276 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Interesting power mix |
| Description: |
After NS took over part of Conrail in 1999, it took them a while to assimilate the operation. While that was going on, there were some interesting moments. Heres one at QD. Train BIBV, a Binghamton-Bellevue OH train, works with a BNSF, NYSW and NS unit. Cant get much odder than that!! |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/1999 Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:32:49 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8046(SD40-2) NYSW 3634(SD45) NS 9021(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
813 Comments: 1 |
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