BNSF Railway (BNSF) 4860 - GE C44-9W

Eastbound Grain Loads. (exact date unknown)

Eastbound Grain Loads. (exact date unknown)

Looks can be deceiving...even in 2018! Here BNSF 4860 leads the St. Louis to Galesburg freight (H STLGAL1 10A) with a "retro" lash up north on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. as it enters Louisiana, Mo. Power was: BNSF 4860, Ex-BNSF now PRLX 9561, & BNSF 2780 (GP39-3).

Looks can be deceiving...even in 2018! Here BNSF 4860 leads the St. Louis to Galesburg freight (H STLGAL1 10A) with a "retro" lash up north on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. as it enters Louisiana, Mo. Power was: BNSF 4860, Ex-BNSF now PRLX 9561, & BNSF 2780 (GP39-3).

BNSF 4860

BNSF 4860 prepares to depart east (north) while BNSF 8058 heads up the main in the late afternoon

WB BNSF Cajon Sub. Cleghorn Road.

WB BNSF Cajon Sub. Cleghorn Road.

WB BNSF Cajon Sub. Cleghorn Road.

BNSF 4860 slipping out of the power corral with another string of odd-mix power - only this time, the heavy-weight actually doing the work.

WB grain running down the BNSF Transcon.

A westbound grain train rolls over the viaduct toward Argentine

BNSF 4860 leads this west bound grain load out of Baring, Mo. on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

BNSF 732 & 4860 along Airport Way on a spring afternoon

Saw previous photos of this locomotive being stuck in storage. Apparently it's alive and running now. Here it is passing Railroad Ridge, a campfire site at LOMC (Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center) and one of my personal favorite spots for photos. This locomotive sure has seen better days, but I'm glad to see it leading.

Sitting near Railroad Ridge, a campfire pit at Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center (LOMC), I saw this. A beautiful consist leading a rare empty freight train through the area, back westward.

Z-PTLCHC heads through town.

Three moves later, the shuttle is about to leave EB

Unusually unburnt H2

Burned-out ditch light, does that impose restricted speeds or other FRA rules?

Rearranging a three-pack of GEs at the east end of the Roho

Came out of the eastside poket to Grapevine, reversed to Pasco Center on Main 2

BNSF E.B. Stacker. BNSF-4860-784.

S/B PASS/BAR rolling to SSS at Cascan yard in SW Bend, OR.

The BNSF train last seen in Clovis is now heading through Vaughn. (Video Still)

4 Unit WB consist leaving Clovic for Belen, Gallup.

A long coal train sits in Clovis and waits to leave. Later in the day we would see the same train heading through Vaughn.