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Early AM in Newberry Springs Calif
Title:  Early AM in Newberry Springs Calif
Description:  A BNSF Baretables train heads west thru the booming metropolis of Newberry Springs Calif around 0630 or so.
Photo Date:  6/8/2007  Upload Date: 6/24/2007 4:10:16 PM
Location:  Newberry Springs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 625(C44-9W) BNSF 6750(SD40-2)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
Set out, along the way
Title:  Set out, along the way
Description:  This BNSF, C44-9W, has been set out along the way on the BNSF Transcon for reasons unknown as the unit was under power and idling at the time
Photo Date:  11/21/2009  Upload Date: 11/24/2009 5:29:45 PM
Location:  Tolar, NM
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 695(C44-9W)
Views:  267   Comments: 1
EB BNSF @ W.Baca NM
Title:  EB BNSF @ W.Baca NM
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 698 leads 4 others over the road crossing at W.Baca NM
Photo Date:  6/21/2007  Upload Date: 6/24/2007 4:04:17 PM
Location:  Prewitt, NM
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 698(C44-9W) BNSF 8718(GP60) BNSF 9293(SD60M) BNSF 340(GP60B) BNSF 579(B40-8W)
Views:  824   Comments: 1
A SB Grain Train heads south on the Joint Line
Title:  A SB Grain Train heads south on the Joint Line
Description:  3 BNSF units lead this SB Grain Train thru Spruce Colo just north of Palmer Lake
Photo Date:  10/18/1998  Upload Date: 7/5/2009 9:42:02 PM
Location:  Palmer Lake, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 799(C44-9W) BNSF 703(C44-9W) ATSF 845(C40-8W)
Views:  1031   Comments: 0
BNSF 5285 north at Pueblo Co w/ 3 including NS 9849
Title:  BNSF 5285 north at Pueblo Co w/ 3 including NS 9849
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/22/2007  Upload Date: 2/22/2007 8:39:44 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5285(C44-9W) BNSF 720(C44-9W) BNSF 879(C40-8W) NS 9849(C40-9W)
Views:  698   Comments: 1
Another good looking warbonnet
Title:  Another good looking warbonnet
Description:  This unit, like its sister behind it, still looking good in the old but newer version of ATSF's famous paint
Photo Date:  1/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/1/2011 4:27:23 PM
Location:  East Malden, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 726(C44-9W)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Un identified ex CSX GP16
Title:  Un identified ex CSX GP16
Description:  An ex CSX GP16 1822 at elevator along the BNSF Red River Valley Sub.
Photo Date:  6/11/2008  Upload Date: 6/22/2008 9:37:08 PM
Location:  Chillicothe, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 750(C44-9W)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
(Late) Afternoon Delight
Title:  (Late) Afternoon Delight
Description:  BNSF 755 leads a sb Denver Pueblo past the Red Barn at Greenland Ranch along the Joint Line in early evening light.
Photo Date:  8/26/2012  Upload Date: 9/2/2012 1:35:46 PM
Location:  Greenland Ranch, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 755(C44-9W)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
BNSF Power Pueblo Co
Title:  BNSF Power Pueblo Co
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 759, BNSF SD70MAC 9489 compare noses while BNSF 4982 waits its turn in the center background.
Photo Date:  4/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/21/2007 7:08:55 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 759(C44-9W) BNSF 9489(SD70MAC) BNSF 4982(C44-9W)
Views:  636   Comments: 0
BNSF C44-9W 762 in yard at Pueblo Co
Title:  BNSF C44-9W 762 in yard at Pueblo Co
Description:  SB BNSF 762 with TFM C44AC 2604 await departure south from Pueblo Co on Monday 19 Feb 2007
Photo Date:  2/19/2007  Upload Date: 2/22/2007 8:25:12 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 762(C44-9W) TFM 2604(AC44CW)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
BNSF EB sits waiting on traffic.
Title:  BNSF EB sits waiting on traffic.
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 762 leads 3 more while it awaits for an EB hotshot to pass it
Photo Date:  1/18/2009  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 5:29:11 PM
Location:  Goffs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 762(C44-9W)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
An Early August morn in Montana
Title:  An Early August morn in Montana
Description:  Came upon this eb BNSF powered on MRL Trackage at the West Side of the Tunnels on Bozeman Pass. Great Country up this way.
Photo Date:  8/26/2014  Upload Date: 12/23/2014 4:59:41 PM
Location:  Bozeman Pass, MT
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 771(C44-9W)
Views:  88   Comments: 3
Another Red & Silver unit bites the dust
Title:  Another Red & Silver unit bites the dust
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 793 shows off her new paint
Photo Date:  8/17/2012  Upload Date: 9/2/2012 1:18:18 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 793(C44-9W)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
Class President
Title:  Class President
Description:  This C44-9W is the first of whats become one of the more popular units on the BNSF System, shown here leading a sb HLAULUB into Denver on a nice sunny winterday.
Photo Date:  2/15/2011  Upload Date: 2/19/2012 10:19:38 AM
Location:  Irondale, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 960(C44-9W) BNSF 8291(SD75I) NS 7671(ES40DC)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
An original C44 leads a manifest
Title:  An original C44 leads a manifest
Description:  One of BNSF's first C44-9W's in BNSF Paint, leads a manifest along the ex ATSF east out of Pueblo
Photo Date:  2/22/2011  Upload Date: 4/1/2011 7:30:32 PM
Location:  Avondale, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1012(C44-9W)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
3 BNSF C44-9W's lead a NB/WB train out of the siding at Baxter Colo
Title:  3 BNSF C44-9W's lead a NB/WB train out of the siding at Baxter Colo
Description:  BNSF 1089 heads west/north at Baxter Co witha manifest.
Photo Date:  11/5/2006  Upload Date: 3/29/2007 8:47:44 PM
Location:  Baxter, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1089(C44-9W) BNSF 4895(C44-9W) BNSF 5089(C44-9W)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
NB KCKDEN
Title:  NB KCKDEN
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 1098 leads a NB Kansas City-Denver train on the old hump leads at Pueblo
Photo Date:  8/19/2007  Upload Date: 9/2/2007 1:29:11 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1098(C44-9W) NS 8961(C40-9W)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Down Hill off Tehachapi into Mojave on a fine September evening
Title:  Down Hill off Tehachapi into Mojave on a fine September evening
Description:  A five unit consist leads an eb off the Hill into Mojave. Units represented are from BNSF/CSX/UP on this one.
Photo Date:  9/23/2013  Upload Date: 10/8/2013 8:10:20 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6557(ES44C4) BNSF 4720(C44-9W) CSX 4715(SD70MAC) BNSF 4029(C44-9W)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
California Desert action
Title:  California Desert action
Description:  A trio of BNSF GE's head a stack train west near Fenner Calif along the Transcon. Goof Hill, stands out to the right in this shot
Photo Date:  10/8/2010  Upload Date: 10/29/2010 12:17:19 AM
Location:  Fenner, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4038(C44-9W)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
A fine July Morning (Not stealing a quote from the band Uriah Heep BTW, song of the same name)
Title:  A fine July Morning (Not stealing a quote from the band Uriah Heep BTW, song of the same name)
Description:  At Ft Carson in Colorado Springs, we find quite a few power sets ready to haul our Military to where ever the need be. I counted 10 units waiting to be used here this early am. That would be Cheyene N\Mtn off to the right in the shot. Better known as the home of NORAD.
Photo Date:  7/9/2013  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 7:35:07 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4066(C44-9W)
Views:  197   Comments: 1
Early morning at Larkspur
Title:  Early morning at Larkspur
Description:  A NB manifest sits while a few trains ahead get recrewed. A NS ES40DC is 2nd out today.
Photo Date:  9/2/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 2:48:30 PM
Location:  Larkspur, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7349(ES44DC) NS 7681(ES40DC) BNSF 4088(C44-9W)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
BNSF C44-9W 4097
Title:  BNSF C44-9W 4097
Description:  BNSF C40-9W 4097
Photo Date:  7/30/2006  Upload Date: 5/13/2008 6:25:29 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4097(C44-9W)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
WB Stacks on BNSF
Title:  WB Stacks on BNSF
Description:  4 BNSF C44-9W's lead a WB stack train thru Kingman Az
Photo Date:  1/22/2009  Upload Date: 1/31/2009 8:57:56 PM
Location:  Kingman, AZ
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4159(C44-9W)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
Along the old Frisco thru Southern Missouri/Arkansas
Title:  Along the old Frisco thru Southern Missouri/Arkansas
Description:  This eb BNSF Stack Train, Symbol QLACATG heads east along the way of the ex SLSF to Memphis. This train will be handed over to CSX at Birmingham Ala. as their train Q183 for eventual delivery to Fairburn Ga
Photo Date:  10/11/2009  Upload Date: 10/23/2009 7:28:43 PM
Location:  Hardy, AR
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4171(C44-9W)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Along the Red River Valley Sub
Title:  Along the Red River Valley Sub
Description:  2 BNSF GE's lead a SB Auto Train in North Central Texas on a rather pleasant afternoon
Photo Date:  1/22/2014  Upload Date: 3/6/2014 11:58:36 PM
Location:  Kirkland, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4177(C44-9W) BNSF 4701(C44-9W)
Views:  133   Comments: 1
Doin it BNSF Style
Title:  Doin it BNSF Style
Description:  BNSF WB Stack train at Newberry Springs Ca with a short train.Actually there were more empty baretables than there were loaded cars
Photo Date:  6/15/2007  Upload Date: 6/24/2007 4:23:11 PM
Location:  Newberry Springs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4178(C44-9W)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
What to do, what to do.....
Title:  What to do, what to do.....
Description:  An EB BNSF Stack waits at W.Goffs for a train ahead of it to clear.
Photo Date:  1/22/2009  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 4:06:34 PM
Location:  Goffs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4180(C44-9W)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Waiting at W.Goffs
Title:  Waiting at W.Goffs
Description:  BNSF 4180 waits with 3 others for a train ahead to clear out of the block so it can proceed west too.
Photo Date:  1/22/2009  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 5:21:16 PM
Location:  Goffs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4180(C44-9W)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
North bound past teh Drake Plant in COS
Title:  North bound past teh Drake Plant in COS
Description:  A NB BNSF heads thru downtown Colo Spngs on a great day.
Photo Date:  5/11/2007  Upload Date: 5/12/2007 11:02:57 AM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4306(C44-9W) FURX 3030(SD40-2) NS 7636(ES40DC)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
Variety at Pueblo Colo
Title:  Variety at Pueblo Colo
Description:  KCS 4584 along with NS 9920/BNSF 4337/BNSF 4688 pass local and some road power at Pueblo this pm. This set shown running east on the main line past Pueblo Twr and whats left of the service area just came in on a NB. Power ran lite to N.Pblo and came east down the main past Canon City Jct to back down on the"lot" on the east side of the yard(to the right in the photo). Also in the yard today were a CSX SD70MAC 716 and a BNSF GP60M 340 along with the still present Rotary from earlier this year.
Photo Date:  2/15/2007  Upload Date: 2/15/2007 8:49:18 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  KCS 4584(AC44CW) NS 9920(C40-9W) BNSF 4337(C44-9W) BNSF 4688(C44-9W) BNSF 8732(GP60) BNSF 146(GP60M) BNSF 3008(GP40M) BNSF 6737(SD40-2)
Views:  1296   Comments: 1
One train, whole train, one shot
Title:  One train, whole train, one shot
Description:  A WB BNSF train does its thing west of Ibis Ca.
Photo Date:  1/22/2009  Upload Date: 1/22/2009 5:17:36 PM
Location:  Ibis, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7515(ES44DC) NS 8820(C40-9) NS 8850(C40-9) BNSF 5301(C44-9W) BNSF 4339(C44-9W)
Views:  596   Comments: 1
Run Thru power in Pueblo
Title:  Run Thru power in Pueblo
Description:  A CN unit is 2nd out in this line up at the Fuel Rack in Pueblo
Photo Date:  7/5/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 2:14:16 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4380(C44-9W) CN 2604(C44-9W)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Power lineup at Pblo
Title:  Power lineup at Pblo
Description:  Another Ferromex unit in Pblo along with the usual suspects.
Photo Date:  5/6/2007  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 8:26:47 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4735(C44-9W) FXE 4656(ES44AC) BNSF 4489(C44-9W)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
Downtown Swink
Title:  Downtown Swink
Description:  This is about all there is of this small Eastern Colorado town. Swink is about 4 miles west of La Junta on BNSF's busy Pueblo Sub., a major conduit for Coal Loads to Texas from th PRB
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 2:46:05 PM
Location:  Swink, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4529(C44-9W)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Stacks west
Title:  Stacks west
Description:  One of the many Stack Trains that ply the BNSF Transcon daily
Photo Date:  9/18/2009  Upload Date: 10/11/2009 9:23:31 PM
Location:  Winslow, AZ
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4592(C44-9W)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
BNSF 8922 and BNSF 4628
Title:  BNSF 8922 and BNSF 4628
Description:  BNSF 8922 heads up a SB XCLX Load while a SB manifest passes with BNSF 4628/BNSF 8095/BNSF 6395
Photo Date:  2/22/2007  Upload Date: 2/22/2007 8:44:30 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8922(SD70MAC) BNSF 4628(C44-9W)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
Little bit of Fall Colors
Title:  Little bit of Fall Colors
Description:  A SB BNSF train passes thru the area just south of Fountain Co near wher the old Pikes Peak International Raceway is located. Pikes Peak itself is off to the left in the shot.
Photo Date:  11/3/2011  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 2:37:56 PM
Location:  Fountain, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4641(C44-9W)
Views:  224   Comments: 1
Evening in the Arizona Desert
Title:  Evening in the Arizona Desert
Description:  Followed this WB BNSF Stack west along US66 from Seligman to Kingman. Finally got ahead of him and managed this shot
Photo Date:  6/8/2009  Upload Date: 6/24/2009 9:25:44 PM
Location:  Kingman, AZ
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4654(C44-9W)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Coming off the Pass and headed east
Title:  Coming off the Pass and headed east
Description:  An EB BNSF Stack breaks the morning silence as it heads down off Tehachapi Pass and thru Mojave.
Photo Date:  6/21/2009  Upload Date: 6/24/2009 10:01:10 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4659(C44-9W)
Views:  235   Comments: 1
SB BNSF DENAMA at Bragdon Co with MRL & KCS power
Title:  SB BNSF DENAMA at Bragdon Co with MRL & KCS power
Description:  BNSF C44-9W 4689/MRL 211/KCSdeM 4572 at Bragdon
Photo Date:  9/10/2006  Upload Date: 10/18/2006 10:54:01 AM
Location:  Bragdon, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4689(C44-9W)
Views:  331   Comments: 1
Can you say Coors?
Title:  Can you say Coors?
Description:  BNSF 4689 leads 2 more units on a sb manifest at Bragdon.Lots of Coors Beer loads on this train.
Photo Date:  9/11/2006  Upload Date: 3/9/2008 11:48:33 AM
Location:  Bragdon, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4689(C44-9W) MRL 211(SD40) KCSM 4572(AC44CW)
Views:  814   Comments: 2
Red & Silver looking good
Title:  Red & Silver looking good
Description:  One of the remaining in the old ATSF paint still out and about
Photo Date:  1/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/1/2011 4:19:38 PM
Location:  East Malden, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4717(C44-9W)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
WB at Dawn on the BNSF Transcon
Title:  WB at Dawn on the BNSF Transcon
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2007  Upload Date: 7/13/2007 8:23:08 PM
Location:  Newberry Springs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4733(C44-9W)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Southern Visitor to the ex C&S
Title:  Southern Visitor to the ex C&S
Description:  A Ferromex ES44AC is the middle unit of a three units set of GE's awaiting a call to action.
Photo Date:  5/6/2007  Upload Date: 11/4/2007 1:30:31 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4735(C44-9W) FXE 4656(ES44AC)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Some color in Denver
Title:  Some color in Denver
Description:  2 CSX units add their colors to the many that can be found on a somewhat regular basis in the Denver area, esp on the BNSF. These are at the Denver Diesel area near Coor's Field and Union Station
Photo Date:  7/2/2014  Upload Date: 8/5/2014 5:53:55 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  CSX 7345(C40-8W) CSX 8107(SD40-2) BNSF 4842(C44-9W)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
Waiting out the Fire
Title:  Waiting out the Fire
Description:  Late June found a good portion of vthe west side of Colorado Sprins burning. BNSF Trains were affected somewhat. Here at the north end of Kelker siding sits a nb waiting w/o a crew for clearence thru the area near the fire. The closets the fire's came to the tracks was near the AIr Force Academy. This is been noted as the most destructive Wild Fire in Colorado History. Many thanks go out to the Firefighters who fought this blaze and brought it under control.Without them more could have been lost.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 5:07:15 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4902(C44-9W)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
BNSF 4919
Title:  BNSF 4919
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/29/2006  Upload Date: 10/29/2006 9:26:52 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4919(C44-9W)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
CEFX 3128 with BNSF units in Pueblo
Title:  CEFX 3128 with BNSF units in Pueblo
Description:  CEFX SD40-2R 3128 and others await their turn to haul again for BNSF
Photo Date:  10/29/2006  Upload Date: 3/29/2007 9:09:13 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  CEFX 3128(SD40M-2) BNSF 5395(C44-9W) BNSF 4919(C44-9W) BNSF 518(B40-8W) BNSF 2596(GP35u)
Views:  858   Comments: 0
Along the Transcon
Title:  Along the Transcon
Description:  5 units power a WB along the main approaching Vaughn NM from the east. Thar is a visitor from the east in consist too....
Photo Date:  6/29/2007  Upload Date: 11/4/2007 2:00:32 PM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4941(C44-9W)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Trains passing in the day out in the desert
Title:  Trains passing in the day out in the desert
Description:  One of CSX's newest units is a rear DPU on a wb Unit Coil Steel train being passed by an EB BNSF manifest along the old ATSF in the desert of Calif
Photo Date:  10/16/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2014 8:55:37 PM
Location:  West Goffs, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 932(C41-8W) BNSF 5007(C44-9W) CSX 3114(ES44AC-H)
Views:  359   Comments: 1

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