BNSF Railway (BNSF) 4498 - GE C44-9W

Fourteen Canadian National (ex-BNSF) C44-9W’s and two UP AC4400CW’s were parked on the west test track just north of Wabtec’s Fort Worth plant. All of these units were waiting to be remanufactured, the CN’s into AC44C6M’s and the UP’s into AC4400CWM’s. The units were CN 4498, 4575, 4568, 4506, 4581, 4584, 4560, 4570, 4513, 4470, 4494, 4562, 4517, 4571, UP 5780 and 5771.

A very long stacker appears, with 2 mid DPU's, and all 20 & 40 ft containers.

EB BNSF Aurora Sub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrr8TC49T5k

I was able to indulge in a "spring fever" week of railfanning thanks to warmer than normal March temperatures. My last catch of the week was the eastbound CSX/BNSF grain train, seen here heading for the Luce Line overpass and points east.

BNSF 4498 in the top-off and true service area in Vancouver under a flash rain storm - somewhat unusual for our area (we usually get SMALL drops of water and mist, not huge deluge drops).

Roster shot.

BNSF 4498 & BNSF 7331 are two of the four locomotives that power the H-GALNTW as it comes to a stop by the Galesburg Amtrak Station.

First unit sure is bright compaired to the one it's coupled up to.

Wearing a heavy coat of dirt and grime, one member of BNSF's 1,791 C44-9W fleet leads another freight through Fort Worth.

A single C44-9W pauses at a red signal with a long line of loaded ethanol tank cars and an Airslide buffer car.

A single C44-9W leads a train uphill towards the southern Fort Worth city limit.

BNSF 7878 leads a westbound Z9 on Main 1 while BNSF 4498 leads an Eastbound Z on Main 2 of the Panhandle Subdivision

Southbound freight rolling through Old Monroe.

Z-CHCSSE

The second of five Z trains comes into Prairie!