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"Tag; you're it!"
Title:  "Tag; you're it!"
Description:  What inner city yard did this hopper get tagged in? At least there is nothing R-rated on it! I found it in the consist of a BNSF eastbound that got stopped by red signals for a time before the dispatcher cleared the crew on down into Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  5/31/2013  Upload Date: 5/31/2013 9:14:33 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  55   Comments: 0
BNSF 6117
Title:  BNSF 6117
Description:  A going-away view of this unit serving as the DPU on an eastbound freight headed into the Long Lake/Wayzata siding for a meet in about ninety minutes with a westbound.
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:54:19 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6117(ES44AC)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
Coming into town
Title:  Coming into town
Description:  The crew aboard this eastbound freight gradually slows down their rate of speed as they pass under Brown Road headed for the siding and a meet with a westbound in about ninety minutes from now.
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:49:54 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5032(C44-9W) BNSF 7312(ES44DC)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
DPU under Brown Road
Title:  DPU under Brown Road
Description:  This snappy new unit was nose-first on the hind end of an eastbound freight headed into the hole for a meet. What are the purpose of DPUs, anyway?
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:50:43 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6117(ES44AC)
Views:  153   Comments: 0
More echoes of the Burlington Northern
Title:  More echoes of the Burlington Northern
Description:  These two covered hoppers were part of a total of three in the consist of this eastbound freight taking the hole this day for a meet; passing motorists paid this echo of the BN no heed (but I did!)
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:58:25 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Heading to the siding
Title:  Heading to the siding
Description:  The crew aboard these two units have a meet coming up with a westbound freight as they head for the siding (out of view to the left) in Long Lake
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:50:17 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7312(ES44DC) BNSF 5032(C44-9W)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Street lingo on a BNSF hopper
Title:  Street lingo on a BNSF hopper
Description:  Caught this BNSF hopper sporting the old Santa Fe-esque logo in the consist of an eastbound freight taking the hole in Long Lake for a meet. Street art sure can be hard to deciper! Wonder how long it took whatever punks that did this to complete the job?
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:54:38 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  56   Comments: 0
Southern serves the ... tagged?
Title:  Southern serves the ... tagged?
Description:  Caught this baby in the consist of an eastbound taking the hole in town. At least the street art was tasteful! Note how the car's number was re-stenciled over it at left.
Photo Date:  6/3/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2013 5:58:06 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
You're "it"!
Title:  You're "it"!
Description:  A "graffitti colony" (my term) consisting of three boxcars so well-tagged their stencils are buriend beneath the paint rattle and rumble through town in the consist of a westbound freight.
Photo Date:  6/6/2013  Upload Date: 6/6/2013 6:11:59 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
Tag, CN!
Title:  Tag, CN!
Description:  A pair of well-tagged Canadian National boxcars with the usual impossible to translate graffitti on them head west through Long Lake in the conist of a general freight.
Photo Date:  6/6/2013  Upload Date: 6/6/2013 6:12:48 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  161   Comments: 1
D-Day anniversary train
Title:  D-Day anniversary train
Description:  Here comes a westbound general freight that has just met an eastbound grain job waiting in the siding to the east of this location. I wonder if the crew knew that today was the 69th anniversary of D-Day?
Photo Date:  6/6/2013  Upload Date: 6/6/2013 6:51:07 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4108(C44-9W) BNSF 7688(ES44DC)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
Is this the Northtown-KCK?
Title:  Is this the Northtown-KCK?
Description:  A fast-moving westbound mixed manifest ducks under Brown Road headed west. Is this train the Northtown-KCK job?
Photo Date:  6/6/2013  Upload Date: 6/6/2013 6:51:53 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7688(ES44DC) BNSF 4108(C44-9W)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
Leaving Long Lake
Title:  Leaving Long Lake
Description:  The crew in the cab of the lead unit of a westbound grain train slowly but surely gets a wheel into their consist as they head under Brown Road after a meet with an eastbound general freight.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 7:43:57 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6930(ES44C4) BNSF 7709(ES44DC)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Tagged CEFX
Title:  Tagged CEFX
Description:  Graffitti artists sure love freight cars. Check out this handiwork on this CEFX hopper I saw in the consist of a departing westbound grain train this day.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 8:01:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  43   Comments: 0
Tagged CITX
Title:  Tagged CITX
Description:  Another tagged hopper that caught my eye as the consist of a westbound grain train departing town rumbled beneath Brown Road
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 8:03:38 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Another tagged CITX
Title:  Another tagged CITX
Description:  I am lucky the graffitti artists didn't obscure the stenciled number on this car. It was in the consist of a westbound grain job leaving Long Lake after a meet with an eastbound.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 8:17:56 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
Another tagged CEFX
Title:  Another tagged CEFX
Description:  Urban artists did not tage this one quite so elaborately. I saw this in a conga line of hoppers on a westbound grain job leaving Long Lake after a meet at the siding with an eastbound.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/10/2013 5:08:29 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
Another tagged CITX
Title:  Another tagged CITX
Description:  Is that Kilroy's grandson there? CITX car is passing under Brown Road as part of a westbound grain train leaving Long Lake after a meet.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/10/2013 5:10:28 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  47   Comments: 0
Yet another tagged CITX
Title:  Yet another tagged CITX
Description:  That urban art is sure hard to decipher! Wonder what it means? CITX car was just one of many tagged hoppers in a westbound grain train departing town this day.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/10/2013 5:10:52 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Bunny on a CITX?
Title:  Bunny on a CITX?
Description:  CITX hoppers sure are attractive to the graffitti crowd; is that a bunny rabbit on this car rumbling through Long Lake on a departing westbound grain job? Note the more modest tag jog on the CEFX car ahead of it.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/10/2013 5:23:43 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
Pulling back onto the main track
Title:  Pulling back onto the main track
Description:  The crew of a westbound grain train gets back onto the high iron after a quick meet in Long Lake with an eastbound general freight.
Photo Date:  6/9/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 7:43:36 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7709(ES44DC) BNSF 6930(ES44C4)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Westbound grain on a lovely day
Title:  Westbound grain on a lovely day
Description:  A fast westbound grain train rumbles through town on a lovely summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/19/2013  Upload Date: 6/19/2013 6:13:29 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5023(C44-9W) BNSF 5241(C44-9W)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
BNSF dash-nine with a tattered cigar band
Title:  BNSF dash-nine with a tattered cigar band
Description:  At twenty minutes before noon on a lovely morning in late June an easttbound BNSF general freight storms through Long Lake. Note how tattered the Santa Fe-style "cigar band" logo is on the nose of the 4306!
Photo Date:  6/29/2013  Upload Date: 6/29/2013 8:31:40 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4306(C44-9W) BNSF 5694(AC44CW)
Views:  211   Comments: 1
Eastbound tonnage
Title:  Eastbound tonnage
Description:  A fast moving eastbound general freight charges through eastern Long Lake bound for Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  6/29/2013  Upload Date: 6/29/2013 8:32:01 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5694(AC44CW) BNSF 4306(C44-9W)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
No more BN logos
Title:  No more BN logos
Description:  Another view of this SD70MAC I caught serving as the DPU unit for an eastbound freight. Note the "swoosh" logo beneath the cab instead of the old BN ones.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:46:37 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9627(SD70MAC)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
BNSF 9627
Title:  BNSF 9627
Description:  Roster view of this DPU unit on an eastbound BNSF grain job thundering through Long Lake.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:38:21 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9627(SD70MAC)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
On to the Luce
Title:  On to the Luce
Description:  There goes an eastbound grain job headed for the Luce Line bridges and on into Wayzata and points east.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:37:57 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6654(ES44C4) BNSF 6852(ES44C4)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Eastbound grain
Title:  Eastbound grain
Description:  The crew aboard this eastbound grain job have a pair of newer GE units for power as they take the train through Long Lake late on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:37:27 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6852(ES44C4) BNSF 6654(ES44C4)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
Far from the ex-C&NW
Title:  Far from the ex-C&NW
Description:  These UP units are in Minnesota but are far from the ex-C&NW rails they normally traverse. Today they are the motive power for a short BNSF train consisting of empty ex-BN and AT&SF ballast hoppers. The crew got stopped by red signals in Long Lake for about thirty minutes or so until they finally got cleared on through.
Photo Date:  7/6/2013  Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:47:09 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4984(SD70M) UP 4771(SD70M)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
Into the humid haze
Title:  Into the humid haze
Description:  I had the brightness setting on my Olympus digital point and shoot set of 0.07+; the result is I got the humid hzae hanging in the air along with the green signal and the glow of the setting sun! The train is the Northtown-Lincoln which had a special load this evening.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 10:01:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2755(GP39E) BNSF 5824(ES44AC) BNSF 7058(ES44C4)
Views:  545   Comments: 0
Westward ho!
Title:  Westward ho!
Description:  The Northtown-Lincoln freight heads for the setting sun as the train rumbles along the Wayzata Sub in Long Lake. Note the ex-BN rebuilt GP30 --now a GP39E-- sandwiched between the first two units and the QTTX flat car bearing a special load.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 10:01:09 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7058(ES44C4) BNSF 5824(ES44AC) BNSF 2755(GP39E)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
Northtown-Lincoln
Title:  Northtown-Lincoln
Description:  Here comes the Northtown-Lincoln as it rolls west along the Wayzata Sub. Note the special load just behind the engines.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 9:59:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7058(ES44C4) BNSF 5824(ES44AC) BNSF 2755(GP39E) BNSF 6572(ES44C4)
Views:  1366   Comments: 0
DPU beneath the Luce
Title:  DPU beneath the Luce
Description:  A portrait of the DPU unit on a stopped eastbound freight waiting for the westbound Northtown-Lincoln freight to pass. The bridge above it carries the Luce Line over the BNSF/Hwy. 12 bypass corridor.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 9:58:33 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6572(ES44C4)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Proceed with caution?
Title:  Proceed with caution?
Description:  BNSF dispatch halted this eastbound mixed manifest in Long Lake for a short while; then the crew was cleared to proceed. It looks like the crew had a pair of Dash-nines for power, but the lead unit could have been newer; I did not get the number. The signal sure showed up good in this zoom shot. I take it the yellow over red signal informs the engineer to proceed with caution?
Photo Date:  7/13/2013  Upload Date: 7/13/2013 6:15:56 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 682(C44-9W)
Views:  90   Comments: 1
Bye bye, Long Lake
Title:  Bye bye, Long Lake
Description:  The crew aboard this eastbound mixed manifest (train symbol anyone?) is about to say bye bye to Long Lake as they wheel the train towards the Wayzata/Long Lake border on an unusually cool late July Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  7/27/2013  Upload Date: 7/27/2013 7:52:16 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 912(C40-8W) BNSF 7726(ES44DC) BNSF 6917(ES44C4)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
Bright lights, big train
Title:  Bright lights, big train
Description:  My Olympus point and shoot has been picking up the headlight glare a bit too well at times. So here comes an easttbound BNSF job best summed up as "bright lights, big train" as it splits the signals.
Photo Date:  7/27/2013  Upload Date: 7/27/2013 10:32:38 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6917(ES44C4) BNSF 7726(ES44DC) BNSF 912(C40-8W)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
I still miss the caboose
Title:  I still miss the caboose
Description:  I wistfully wished for a caboose when I saw the end of this eastbound manifest approaching. "Wouldn't it be nice," as the Beach Boys sang.
Photo Date:  7/27/2013  Upload Date: 7/27/2013 7:53:04 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
Train a'comin!
Title:  Train a'comin!
Description:  The west facing main track signal at the Long Lake end of the Wayzata/Long Lake siding announces a train is a'conmin on an unusually gray and cool late July afternoon.
Photo Date:  7/27/2013  Upload Date: 7/27/2013 7:50:41 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  33   Comments: 0
Out of the sun
Title:  Out of the sun
Description:  Hot on the heels of a westbound manifest that had rolled through about ten minutes before came another mixed manifest out of the sun. The hogger had a pair of SD70s for power.
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 7:58:27 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9587(SD70MAC) BNSF 8261(SD75M)
Views:  179   Comments: 2
Into the morning sun
Title:  Into the morning sun
Description:  It seemed to be "mixed manifest morning" along the Wayzata Sub on this day. After two such trains rolled through westbound, along came this eastbound about an hour after the westbounds had rolled through. Here it is splitting the signals in Long Lake as the hogger takes the train into the morning sun.
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 8:19:55 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4136(C44-9W) BNSF 5061(C44-9W)
Views:  79   Comments: 0
Under the Tour de Tonka route
Title:  Under the Tour de Tonka route
Description:  Brown Road is just any other most days; today it is a route on the Tour de Tonka bicycle ride. They bulk of the riders had yet to start crossing, however, when this westbound mixed manifest rolled underneath.
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 7:59:22 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8261(SD75M) BNSF 9587(SD70MAC)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
Westbound in the rising sun
Title:  Westbound in the rising sun
Description:  I wish I had got the road number on the CSX unit the hogger had at his disposal along with two BNSF units. Train is a westbound mixed manifest; I do not know the symbol for it.
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 7:57:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9375(SD70ACe) BNSF 5242(C44-9W)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Dash nines from a different angle
Title:  Dash nines from a different angle
Description:  I tried a different angle on the motive power of this eastbound mixes manifest as it popped out from underneath the pedestrian bridge over the BNSF/Highway 12 corridor. This was the result. A little backlit, but not bad!
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 8:21:30 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5061(C44-9W) BNSF 4136(C44-9W)
Views:  71   Comments: 0
Morning train!
Title:  Morning train!
Description:  I headed up to the Wayzata Sub as soon as it was light enough for photography... and promptly bagged this westbound mixed manifest job (train symbol somebody?) There was a CSX unit right behind the two BNSF units whose number I did not catch.
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2013 7:56:40 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5242(C44-9W) BNSF 9375(SD70ACe)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
Working on the Wzyata sub: down by the signals
Title:  Working on the Wzyata sub: down by the signals
Description:  The Wayzata Sub was quiet with signals red facing both east and west as MOW crews worked on the lvne.
Photo Date:  8/5/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 4:49:35 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Working on the Wayzata Sub: Down by the slow order boards
Title:  Working on the Wayzata Sub: Down by the slow order boards
Description:  Here is another MOW crew working on the Wayzata Sub down by the slow order boards with a needed facility in tow.
Photo Date:  8/5/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 4:47:27 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  46   Comments: 0
BNSF 4618
Title:  BNSF 4618
Description:  Roster view
Photo Date:  8/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/7/2013 7:47:13 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4618(C44-9W)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Looking at dash nines from my home
Title:  Looking at dash nines from my home
Description:  The perks of having a virtually trackside apartment net pictures like these lead units that had four others behind them along with a general manifest. The crew were stopped by the dispatcher at the moment I snapped this from my apartment.
Photo Date:  8/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/7/2013 7:46:20 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4618(C44-9W) BNSF 5148(C44-9W)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
Warbonnet!
Title:  Warbonnet!
Description:  I love it whenever Warbonnets pass by on the Wayzata sub, even BNSF-ized ones from 1996.
Photo Date:  8/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/7/2013 7:54:07 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 707(C44-9W) BNSF 5148(C44-9W) BNSF 1544(GP28P)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
BNSF 1544
Title:  BNSF 1544
Description:  This veteran ex-BN unit was one of three hitching a ride into the cities from Wilmar shut down.
Photo Date:  8/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/7/2013 8:29:02 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1544(GP28P) BNSF 707(C44-9W) BNSF 5148(C44-9W)
Views:  232   Comments: 0


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