BNSF 62

The BNSF OCS running as NS 974-14 is shown being reassembled/readied for departure after having been on a multi-day stay at Augusta, Georgia for the Masters Golf Tournament.

Part of BNSF's business train fleet, BNSF 62 "Snoqualmie Pass" is ex-BNSF 2, exx-BN A2, exxx-GN A2, nee-Soo Line "Minneapolis" built in 1958 by P/S.

EXIF: 3:08 PM, f/3 @ 1/1000, ISO-100

BNSF 62 Snoqualmie Pass business car in the consist of the eastbound O-LACKCM9-29

Here are a pair of BNSF ES44C4s leading an 18 passenger car train into Los Angeles includes 16 BNSF Business cars and the 2 Patrick Henry Creative Charter private railcars.

BNSF Officer Special heading south through Castle Rock, CO on May 22, 2018.

The "Snoqualmie Pass" is named after a locale on the Milwaukee Road's route through the Cascades that BNSF predecessor Burlington Northern owned for a short while after the Milwaukee pulled out from the West Coast in 1980. BN subsequently abandoned the route through the pass. I find it surprising a BNSF business train car would bear the name of a place that no longer is part of a rail system.

This BNSF office train rolled west out of Topeka, KS today behind the BNSF 7218, apparently bound for Wellington, KS before turning around and heading up to Minneapolis... I think. Here it is rolling past mp56 (49th St.) on the BNSF Topeka Sub, just north of Pauline, with the elevator visible in the distance. The consist is as follows: WB Strong JS Reed Stevens Pass MO River Stampede Pass Red River Snoqualmie Pass

BNSF's recently renamed observation car Snoqualmie Pass pulls up the markers on the O-TOPWEL on April 6, 2015. From nearly any angle, these cars look great, even in sub-standard lighting.

BNSF's recently renamed observation car Snoqualmie Pass pulls up the markers on the O-TOPWEL on April 6, 2015. From nearly any angle, these cars look great, even in sub-standard lighting.

On August 19th, 2014, I ran by BNSF's Topeka shops and came away with shots of some interesting new wrinkles in the BNSF Business Car Roster. As I showed up, a westbound business train was getting ready to depart the shops, and given a bit of free time before dinner, I decided to brave the heat and see what I could make happen. This one is the confusing one. Here, we've got the newly renamed AND renumbered BNSF 62, the "Snoqualmie Pass." I'm not positive, but this looks to be the former BNSF 2, the "Columbia River." I haven't found any pictures of the BNSF 2 since mid-2012, so it has presumably been shoved away in the shops for quite some time. However, what's odd about this is that the BNSF already has/had a "Snoqualmie Pass," which had been HEP car #51. I've not seen that car recently, so it's anybody's guess as to what it comes out as.