BNSF Railway (BNSF) 5971 - GE ES44AC

This location is a strip mall parking lot off North Broad Street.

The train is a westbound intermodal on the Chillicothe Sub

This looks like an M-EDGDEN, southbound on the Angora sub.

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I met Jeff Carlson when I took this shot! He was here to photograph 5971 for a friend, who liked Santa Fe but didnt like BNSF. The friend would get a kick out of the BN not being visible on this engine!

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BNSF 5971 looks a little crispy as it leads a faded Warbonnet with a Memphis to Galesburg freight on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. Currently rolling through Winfield, Mo. after picking up a lumber car in Old Monroe.

BNSF 5971 looks a little crispy as it leads a faded Warbonnet with a Memphis to Galesburg freight on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. Currently taking the siding in Old Monroe, Mo. to pick up an empty lumber car from the lumber mill.

Eastbound at Attica Jct., KS, this is BNSF train Y-DHWEDY, corn mash empties. This train moves Cargill's "Sweet Bran" cattle feed, a corn wet-milling by-product, from the Cargill plant in Eddyville, IA to Dalhart, TX. Thos is the empty train returning to Iowa. The cars are aluminum Bethgon Coalporters, usually with a majority sporting BN markings, having been reassigned from coal servhce. They are equipped with Shur-Lok brand roll tarps, similar to the ones manufactured for use on grain hauling semi truck trailers, to prevent the slurry-like product from being exposed to the elements and spoiling en-route. Thanks to Zach Pumphery for this info.

Looks like this one got a little warm once......

Three different models of G.E.'s bring this train north east.

BNSF 3920 leads 3 other GEs on a westbound intermodal past UNL

Third unit of four on a westbound empty covered hopper grain train

BNSF 5971 leads this Rush Island bound coal train around the curve near Mp. 63.8 on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. near Foley, Mo.

Loaded oil at Dusk heads into Elsberry Mo on the K LINE.

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Still more coal empties detour past CR 1100 and my primary railfan vehicle on a hot summer evening.