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5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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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:  333   Comments: 0
Afternoon light and some nice colors
Title:  Afternoon light and some nice colors
Description:  BNSF/ATSF/UP units congregate at BNSF's Denver Diesel House on a fine afternoon
Photo Date:  1/27/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 8:52:40 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8106(SD60M) UP 7696(AC45CCTE) BNSF 6674(ES44C4) BNSF 1603(SD40-2) BNSF 1799(SD40-2)
Views:  782   Comments: 1
The new King of the road
Title:  The new King of the road
Description:  2 BNSF units lead SB/EB Oil Loads along the Joint Line in Colorado
Photo Date:  11/18/2014  Upload Date: 12/23/2014 5:32:01 PM
Location:  Larkspur, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6690(ES44C4)
Views:  161   Comments: 1
Gotta move the empties to where the loads are
Title:  Gotta move the empties to where the loads are
Description:  A SB but compass wise WB Empty Wind Energy Train, aka, "Blade" tTrain works it's way thru the tiny "burb" of Grote Colo. along the old ATSF east of Lamar Co
Photo Date:  4/10/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:00:56 PM
Location:  Grote, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6708(ES44C4)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
One of the newer trains on this trackage
Title:  One of the newer trains on this trackage
Description:  Since the Oil Boom here in the western US, BNSF has been running quite a few trains over the Joint Line thru eastern Colorado. Here is another one headed back for reloading up in the Bakken Fields. (At least I think its the Bakken Fields)
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 7/4/2012 4:53:27 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 6863(ES44C4)
Views:  274   Comments: 4
Hey, you don't belong here!
Title:  Hey, you don't belong here!
Description:  BNSF ES44C-4 6890 sits in the UP side of things. Sharing the limited space at the Eng Service area with 2 UP units
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 9/2/2012 12:38:22 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6890(ES44C4) UP 1432(GP40-2) UP 6768(AC44CW)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
It's not a Coal Load
Title:  It's not a Coal Load
Description:  What is normally the majority of the traffic that travels this line this is not. Once a week or so, BNSF sends a Repositioning Stack Train south out of the Denver area for movement to Los Angeles. Here, is this weeks version. Train is the B DENLAC
Photo Date:  11/12/2012  Upload Date: 12/24/2012 10:38:06 AM
Location:  Larkspur, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7009(ES44C4)
Views:  173   Comments: 2
Pusher, in sorts
Title:  Pusher, in sorts
Description:  A rather new BNSF GE ES44DC is working as a rear end DPU on an EB Empty Coal along the Transcon
Photo Date:  10/14/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2014 8:50:16 PM
Location:  Gallup, NM
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7106(ES44C4)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
Oil Train on La Junta Sub
Title:  Oil Train on La Junta Sub
Description:  A WB Oil Train sits at Charleston Ks on BNSF's La Junta Sub for a meet with an EB
Photo Date:  7/4/2014  Upload Date: 8/5/2014 6:37:11 PM
Location:  Charleston, KS
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7171(ES44C4)
Views:  179   Comments: 1
So new, ya can still smell the "New Locomotive" of it
Title:  So new, ya can still smell the "New Locomotive" of it
Description:  A brand new BNSF GE leads a sb Stack Train, the CLOALT at the south end of Ashtola Siding in Texas
Photo Date:  1/22/2014  Upload Date: 3/7/2014 12:03:44 AM
Location:  Ashtola, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8000(ES44C4)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Brand New
Title:  Brand New
Description:  One of the more recent deliveries of the GE ES44C4 type units arriving almost daily on the BNSF
Photo Date:  1/22/2014  Upload Date: 3/7/2014 12:08:53 AM
Location:  Ashtola, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8000(ES44C4)
Views:  347   Comments: 0


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