As the older standard cab EMDs and fallen flag paint schemes get ever harder to find with time, the variety of foreign power keeps this line interesting. As 281's lashup proves, standard cab EMDs can still be found on occasion, as well!
It's been just over 6 years since I last saw 4565
Eastbound manifest descends Curtis Hill.
BNSF 6720
BNSF 7752 heads east in the late morning
Men and equipment in the clear, but not by much.
This is an empty iron ore pellet train going back to Minnesota.
BNSF 4565 sunning herself below morning... - wait, just hold the phone - something is seriously wrong here - that A/C unit? Its ORANGE! On a DASH 9? Someone pull that livery paint scheme chart, something is drastically wrong. We see War Bonnet red, stolen gray - possibly a blue here and there - but orange? On a pumpkin BNSF? Sorry, I need to take a powder.
BNSF 4565 leads a westbound stack train by Nucor Steel outside of St. Joe
Fifth unit on eastbound manifest freight making a meet with westbound BNSF 5801
BNSF Needles Sub
Roster shot.
Roster shot.
Not so big train. Todays H SHKC has seven units and 59 cars, just slightly overpowered.
A visitor from out west tries to hide behind the NS units.
the old santa fe's are getting hard to find in 2012.
This train was 6,379 ft. long.
The Coal starts to move as the manifest approaches