BNSF 4715

BNSF 4715 continues to wear its H3 paint scheme after being involved in a wreck in Kismet California (2006.)

2nd unit on a loaded grain train

BNSF loaded grain train with 8083, 4715 and dpus 7999 & 8505.

BNSF Z PLTCHC

an impressive 5 engines all up front, 3/5 were BNSF

CSX Q367-05 arriving at the CSX DeWitt Yard for a crew change. Mechanical Help Desk was talking to Q367-05. The crew was having some issue with its locomotive consist. Sounds like the crew is having trouble getting some locomotives into isolation and the second locomotive; CSXT 7774 is out of isolation. CSX Q367-05 has 594 axles!

leads a hopper car train east!

Another view of the lead unit in the unusuall 4 unit lashup.

Leading an interesting 4 unit lashup is BNSF #4715. I caught it straddling Hart Road in Dyer, IN, on its westbound direction. What follows is an unusual collection of locos.

4715 assists CSX 721 with train Q693 at Fairfax, SC.

721 is on the connector track moving from the Augusta sub to the CSX S-line to head towards Savannah Georgia with train Q693.

Leading an empty covered hopper grain train headed for Peabody, KS

Leading an empty westbound covered hopper grain train

The open area behind the locomotives is where the riesel shop building used to be.

BNSF 4715 towering over the road traffic below as she sits at the back of a westbound-to-northbound line of covered hoppers - a mile up the track the lead pair are paused in the crew change area while she chortles to herself back here in the lingering morning sun along the Columbia River with mounting clouds.

Meeting a wb

An EDM-EVE on the Bellingham sub passes the Amtrak platform at Stanwood. In the background, a coal train waits on the siding.

St Cloud bound