BNSF Railway (BNSF) 5489 - GE C44-9W

Veteran Dash 9-44CW 5489 enters longmont after leading R-PWR4211 back south from FoCo

BNSF Z SSECHC

Oil cans passing abandoned Iron Ridge tunnel on Mullan Pass

Oil cans climbing the grade at Austin

I was out getting ice and a few other things for my friends party, and saw this westbound waiting for traffic prior to getting out of town. Shot from the parking lot of the well placed ice machine. It would be the first of quite a few trains I would see that morning.

(Air quality issues? Not around here! Actually wildfire / range fire smoke from Alberta and BC from the north and the Bend, OR fires from the south.)

(Just think: this is hundreds of miles away from the source of the fires that provided our hazardous air quality alerts.)

BNSF 5097 and 5489 in a quartet of units at the staging area at Fairburn Intermodal facility on April 29, 2015.

BNSF 5489 leads the H-BLYGAL1 05A with a surprise in tow here along the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just north of Foley, MO. TPLX 2001 - The Prairie Lines GP in tow to an unknown location.

BNSF 5489 leads the H-BLYGAL1 05A with a surprise in tow here along the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just south of Old Monroe, MO. TPLX 2001 - The Prairie Lines GP in tow to an unknown location.

BNSF 5489 leads the H-BLYGAL1 05A with a surprise in tow here along the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just south of Old Monroe, MO. TPLX 2001 - The Prairie Lines GP in tow to an unknown location.

Eastbound mixed freight.

Built June 2000.

Built April 2015.

Keeping the mainline, following a NB intermodal, for a 3 train meet at Kosh. The 2 NB just overtook a coal train on the north of Thayer.

Soon after, a westbound intermodel came by with a Dash 9 leading with an interesting horn.

A grain train passes the geo train.

Wearing a Nathan P3, this type of horn is unusual for a BNSF -9.

A short geometry train tied down in Pasco.

BNSF 7529 leads a hot shot east through the Lockport Curve. Its not as famous as the Ancona Curve on this line.

BNSF 5489

BNSF 5489

BNSF 5489, BNSF 7818, & BNSF 7390 have moved up the line and out of the fog as they enter Foley, Mo. on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. near Mp. 59.

BNSF 5489 leads this Memphis to Galesburg freight north into Old Monroe, Mo. as it crosses the Cuivre River on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.

The crew aboard an eastbound BNSF grain train with a mix of new and old units on the front end waits on the Wayzata Sub for a green signal on a sunny mid-November morning.

Short BNSF Manifest heads through Wasco.

K138-03 does every bit of track speed as they barrel west through Woodbourne with a trio of BNSF C44-9Ws, each displaying a different scheme for power.

K138-03 crosses over to the main at CP Wood led by BNSF C44-9W 5489.