BNSF Railway (BNSF) 4974 - GE C44-9W

BNSF 4974 Meets BNSF 8137 on UP Tracks! Super rare occurance!

Q016 creeps up to Stone Quarry Road near the end of its journey at 0821.

Built December 1998.

Roster Shot.

BNSF 4974 heads west on a gloomy afternoon

BNSF 4974 leads a westbound intermodal through Rochelle.

With ES44DC 7216 pushing into the Intermodal facility behind, BNSF C44-9W 4974 leads CREX ES44AC 1212, BNSF 4409, and 6961 at Fairburn, GA.

BNSF 4974 in second place on northern covered hopper... wait, theres something strange about her. No, not the bondo-n-torch middle. Toward the back of the cab... below the upper decking... dang... did I miss out and now theyre changing the livery? The A/C cover is to *match* the rest of the paint job? Sure indication of merger/change of livery coming - what was that about the NS deal fell through with CP? Leaves it up to Warren.

Nine locomotives take the curve and begin to cross 17th St. And enter Cherokee yard.

Exact photo date unknown.

Nb and EB bye timetable this freight train is headed up the Hannibal Sub.

BNSF 704

BNSF 704 @ 4974

BNSF 704 @ 4974

BNSF 704 @ 4974

Westbound BNSF Logistics Park Chicago, IL to Tacoma, WA stack train S-LPCTAC2-22D rolls through Carling as it arrives at BNSF Hobson Yard. This train will land on the F-5 fuel pad track fuel and an Extended Haul inspection. BNSF C44-9W 4974, BNSF C44-9W 5443, 76 loads (30 lines), 0 empties, 5960 tons, and 6858 feet including rear DPU locomotive BNSF C44-9W 4388.

BNSF C44-9Ws 4974, 4368 push a steel train past a grain elevator on the West Texas plains SW of Panhandle, TX.

Two BNSF C44-9Ws (4974, 4368) push a steel train past a field of wildflowers along US 60 southwest of Panhandle, TX

BNSF 4974 leads BNSFs Worm grain train into Foley, Mo.

BNSF 4974

An eastbound X train at Lynxville, WI.

Showing off fresh primer patches over the engine and a crew memeber taking it easy. Is there any better way to spend a spring day than in the cab of a speeding C44-9W?

Four battle scarred GEs lurch through Saginaw interlocker with a 105 car train.

4974 leading a MAC with a decent freight into the siding here at Old Monroe.