First Union Rail (FURX) 7211 - EMD SD40-2

NS 9975 - FURX 7211

NS 9975 - FURX 7211

50 Green SD40s with various units sit at NRE @ Silvis Illinois.

BNSF train D-WCFSAG1-23T is an impressive power move of 30 stored FURX SD40-2s from Wichita Falls, TX to Saginaw, TX. This train is powered by three C44-9Ws: 5239 and 5426 on the head end and the 4584 in the rear DPU position. In between are 30 FURX SD40-2s: 8117, 8094, 7266, 7211, 7925, 8128, 7934, 7283, 7257, 7269, 7937, 7290, 7268, 7285, 8104, 7270, 8123, 8100, 8113, 8091, 7213, 7222, 7260, 7278, 8101, 7214, 7243, 8098, 7248, and 7219.

Two HI painted SD40-2s roll into Northtown. While the 7211 looks like a BNSF unit, it is really a FURX leaser.

This FURX has exchanged owns three times so far, first a BN, then BNSF, now its owned by FURX.

BNSF 7211 and 7047 leading a train of loaded racks through Galesburg

A nice broadside of the very nice looking SD40-2.

FURX 7211

H-NTWMEM powers its way out of La Crosse

FURX 7211 is second out on eastbound 16K

CSX Q326

CSX Q326

H-NTWGAL - that leader still looks mighty nice!

This unit was sitting with the Dash-9, it was on it's side yesterday. Sorry that this picture is a little fuzzy, shooting into the sun played a trick on my little camera.

Last night they just wanted to restore the mainline, they straight railed the switch points, torched off the rail that was destroyed that led to the switch where the units went off, picked up those units and set them down in the edge of the soybean field (telling BNSF they will get to them when they get to them, and knocking down about an acre of the farmer's beans).

They threw these units into a bean field last night.

BNSF just couldn't let go of this old unit, looks like they may now!

There's the mangled BN car again.

These are the details as told by a UP MOW worker from Dupo, IL: the BNSF crew aboard this train, a southbound grain train 9GTIGVJ04, thought they were on a 2 mile long siding. UP northbound train KMNOA 07 was moving north with the tail end over the switch. The BNSF train rounded the curve to find the end of the siding and the UP train occupying it, they tried to stop, but they failed to. After running the red signal they plowed into spine cars and rolled off into the ditch. Grain cars spilled huge piles of the commodity. SSW signals and control point cabinets were knocked off and/or dented up. Craig Meador alerted me about this, he got to fly over it, see his photos here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=185123 .

This thing was sitting on a pile of it's own contents.

This is a shot of what was all was going on. These are the details as told by a UP MOW worker from Dupo, IL: The BNSF crew aboard this train, a southbound grain train 9GTIGVJ 04, thought they were on a 2 mile long siding. UP northbound train KMNOA 07 was moving north with the tail end over the switch. The BNSF train rounded the curve to find the end of the siding and the UP train occupying it, they tried to stop, but they failed to. After running the red signal they plowed into spine cars and rolled off into the ditch. Grain cars spilled huge piles of the commodity. SSW signals and control point cabinets were knocked off and/or dented up, looks like a couple jobs guys could get fired, but I really don't know. Craig Meador alerted me about this, he got to fly over it, see his photos here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=185123 . R.J. Corman and Hulcher Emergency Services were called in to help cleanup.

The sun got tired and sat on the Dash-9's radiators.