BNSF Railway (BNSF) 713 - GE C44-9W

Flying above the K line, Bnsf 713 races east up the Hannibal Sub.

A H-STLGAL with a nice leader on a rather mild March day.

The X-MONRNS idles at the Nichols Junction wye, waiting to enter the Fort Scott Sub with grain empties from the A&M in Monett and an awesome lashup.

BNSF Warbonnet 713 is 2nd of 3 Mid Train DPUs on a Westbound Grain Train

Second unit leading an empty 114 car covered hopper grain train

BNSF in the middle of a southbound mixed freight over three hundred feet over the Crooked Canyon floor below. (Is it too tacky to plug my book http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/879312 which covers the entire trip that includes this site? Not a lot of trains, but lots of restrooms in our Not Another Travel Guide e-books.)

Southbound mixed freight crossing the Crooked Canyon in North Central Oregon (trip details in our Not Another Travel Guide series: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/879312 - unfortunately, not many train shots - you'll see more trains in our post here than in the book - but it does cover all the other sights to see... plus purt'near all the restrooms along the path). What you can't see (or hear) in this picture is my mumbling and grumbling about how something that huge could sneak up on me while I'm facing the opposite direction trying to figure out the camera's HDR function for shooting the Highway 97/197 bridge over the canyon... while marveling at watching the birds flying *below* us by a couple hundred feet as they 'soar above the water' - because three hundred feet almost straight down is an amazing thing to see with just a little (short!) concrete wall between you and thin air... only to have the weird change in echo to turn and see this starting across the train bridge. So these were pretty much the only shots I could get after quickly flipping through menus trying to disable HDR (which slows my little pocket-snapper camera down to one-frame-per-ten seconds... and blurs all movement) - which leaves "reflex composition" to finally snap the pictures while marveling something that heavy can confidently tromp across something so thin and small... with high broadside winds. It's gotta be quite the ride up there in the cab to watch the world fall away around you.

Triple-header on a southbound mixed freight crossing through central Oregon under clear skies - and over three hundred feet above the river below. (Not a lot of trains in it, but this is from our latest Not Another Travel Guide trip: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/879312 ).

A pair of BNSF trains meet just east of Hereford, TX.

All came in on the HAMSBAR1-21A

A southbound ballast extra

BUEL WB at Route 20

BNSF 713 leads a westbound manifest

Sitting in the diesel facility.

BNSF and Santa Fe warbonnet lead CHCDIL west through Western Springs.

ex Santa Fe

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