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4/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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BHP Iron Ore SD70ACe At Pueblo
Title:  BHP Iron Ore SD70ACe At Pueblo
Description:  EMDX 1001 on way to Australia. For BHP Iron Ore Western Australia
Photo Date:  1/7/2007  Upload Date: 1/29/2007 6:08:46 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 1001(SD70ACe)
Views:  2189   Comments: 0
Liquid nourishment few a few thirsty units
Title:  Liquid nourishment few a few thirsty units
Description:  NS Train 11R sits at the Fuel Pad on the NS Main getting topped off before they head south on the Lurgan Branch for points south
Photo Date:  6/15/2014  Upload Date: 8/5/2014 5:35:27 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 1075(SD70ACe)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Speaking of newbie's
Title:  Speaking of newbie's
Description:  EMD's SD70ACe Demo in Cat Paint. Unit is at the west end of the interchange yard in Pueblo enrte to the TTC
Photo Date:  1/15/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 8:28:56 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EMDX 1201(SD70ACe)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Can't get enough of this one
Title:  Can't get enough of this one
Description:  A few days later than the previous version posted here earlier, we find the 1201 on the BNSF side of things in much better light this time. Still took another day or 2 to get it to the TTC tho from here
Photo Date:  1/18/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 8:48:20 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EMDX 1201(SD70ACe)
Views:  356   Comments: 1
EMDX Demo's on Raton
Title:  EMDX Demo's on Raton
Description:  EMDX new SD70ACe 1211 and 1212 are being tested on BNSF's Raton Pass this month. Here thy are on their first downhill trip after going uphill to Wootton.
Photo Date:  10/7/2013  Upload Date: 10/8/2013 8:42:32 PM
Location:  Gallinas, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EMDX 1211(SD70ACe) EMDX 1212(SD70ACe)
Views:  486   Comments: 1
UP MOPAC Heritage
Title:  UP MOPAC Heritage
Description:  The UP's MOPAC heritage unit leads train IG2OA24 into the outskirts of North Platte Ne trailing UP 5104 and passing n eb coal load
Photo Date:  5/25/2010  Upload Date: 6/16/2010 8:03:17 PM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1982(SD70ACe) UP 5104(SD70M)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
UP 1989
Title:  UP 1989
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2006  Upload Date: 10/10/2006 11:09:49 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1989(SD70ACe)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
UP Lite Power
Title:  UP Lite Power
Description:  Up C40-8 9143 heads an interesting lashup thru the yards at Pueblo
Photo Date:  7/29/2007  Upload Date: 11/4/2007 1:47:23 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9143(C40-8) UP 1989(SD70ACe) UP 4919(SD70M)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
UP 844 on the SB Colo State Fair Special
Title:  UP 844 on the SB Colo State Fair Special
Description:  UP 844 heads south thru Pinion Co with the inbound State Fair Trip.
Photo Date:  8/25/2007  Upload Date: 9/2/2007 1:46:53 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 844(4-8-4) UP 1989(SD70ACe)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
SNOW
Title:  SNOW
Description:  UP's Rio Grande Heritage unit waits out an early morning snow fall at the Diesel House in the old DRGW Yards. The snow dropped about 3 inches or so on the ground, but was mostly gone the next day. Typical Colorado weather.
Photo Date:  2/23/2012  Upload Date: 4/14/2012 1:11:21 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1989(SD70ACe)
Views:  172   Comments: 1
KCS 4005
Title:  KCS 4005
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/29/2006  Upload Date: 10/10/2006 11:18:16 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4005(SD70ACe)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
First shot to be taken after returning to the "Road"
Title:  First shot to be taken after returning to the "Road"
Description:  My orientation for my new employer was in Texarkana Ar. Met up with a friend here and this is the first shot I took after being "gone" from OTR driving the last 3 years
Photo Date:  6/15/2013  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 6:58:28 PM
Location:  Texarkana, AR
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4010(SD70ACe)
Views:  110   Comments: 1
BNSF/KCS Units await their turn to pull.
Title:  BNSF/KCS Units await their turn to pull.
Description:  BNSF 886 leads some unusual power at Pueblo. All came in on train KCKDEN. The two trailing units are brand new SD70ACe's on thier way to the TTC at Pueblo..Were mistakingly taken to Denver before someone realized they needed to go to the test center. Had to be sent back south and then east. The KCS SD70ACe is a surprise also.
Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 1/8/2008 2:43:34 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 886(C40-8W) KCS 4041(SD70ACe) BNSF 9131(SD70ACe) BNSF 9134(SD70ACe)
Views:  1092   Comments: 1
Solid Ferromex on BNSF
Title:  Solid Ferromex on BNSF
Description:  This is on the BNSF Line south out of Clovis NM headed for Carlsbad and the Southwestern RR there. Nice solid set of Ferromex power on this one.
Photo Date:  3/14/2015  Upload Date: 6/15/2015 7:17:14 PM
Location:  Clovis, NM
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FXE 4048(SD70ACe)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
Mexican visitor in Colorado
Title:  Mexican visitor in Colorado
Description:  Rather new Ferromex SD70ACe awaits duty on BNSF rails
Photo Date:  12/7/2011  Upload Date: 2/19/2012 10:14:11 AM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FXE 4051(SD70ACe)
Views:  276   Comments: 1
A Belle and a gray ghost
Title:  A Belle and a gray ghost
Description:  2 KCS units back down one of the mains around the east side of Knoche Yard
Photo Date:  5/4/2010  Upload Date: 6/16/2010 7:30:33 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4120(SD70ACe) KCS 3953(SD70MAC)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
More color on an early Texas morning
Title:  More color on an early Texas morning
Description:  This KCS "Belle" trails on a nb coal empty as it heads north for another load of Black Gold.
Photo Date:  5/28/2009  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 6:08:25 PM
Location:  Amarillo, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4121(SD70ACe)
Views:  262   Comments: 2
Helper Power
Title:  Helper Power
Description:  MRL is about to add this unit to a WB that is justv east of here.
Photo Date:  6/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/10/2010 5:22:59 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4305(SD70ACe)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
Helpers
Title:  Helpers
Description:  A set of MRL SD70ACe's about to be added mid-train to a wb BNSF Grain Load, wait for the train to be pulled past.
Photo Date:  7/18/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 5:29:31 PM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MRL 4312(SD70ACe)
Views:  144   Comments: 1
UP draging an NS train
Title:  UP draging an NS train
Description:  UP 8315 drags NS Train I2G back into NS's Whittaker Yard off the Alabama Div and onto Ga. Div tracks
Photo Date:  2/22/2009  Upload Date: 2/26/2009 8:45:14 PM
Location:  Austell, GA
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8315(SD70ACe)
Views:  387   Comments: 0
Variety is the rule on this UP EB
Title:  Variety is the rule on this UP EB
Description:  8 Units power what I believe is a Des Moines to Proviso Train over the Diamonds here. We have an ES44AC;UP SD60;CEFX C44AC;CSX SD40-2;UPY MP15; UP SD70ACe;UP SD70M and finally another UP SD60M
Photo Date:  3/23/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 4:55:37 PM
Location:  Rochelle, IL
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 5787(AC44CWCTE) UP 2218(SD60) CEFX 1020(AC44CW) CSX 8343(SD40-2) UPY 1388(MP15DC) UP 8399(SD70ACe) UP 4286(SD70M) UP 2271(SD60M)
Views:  551   Comments: 1
UP Gensets and a WB with an SD70ACe
Title:  UP Gensets and a WB with an SD70ACe
Description:  UPY 2737 and 2 more sit while a wb manifest passes with 3 SD70ACe's for power
Photo Date:  6/5/2008  Upload Date: 6/20/2008 12:33:10 AM
Location:  Ontario, CA
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UPY 2737(3GS21B) UPY 2717(3GS21B) UPY 2749(3GS21B) UP 8485(SD70ACe)
Views:  850   Comments: 1
Lotta orange in this shot
Title:  Lotta orange in this shot
Description:  NS OL Pntd 9251 leads a CNGE and 5 new BNSF SD70ACeP6 units, fresh out of the EMD Plant in Muncie In. They are on their way to Progress Rail in Mayfield KY via NS Trn 289, which, all this power, is headed for.
Photo Date:  5/3/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:58:39 PM
Location:  New Haven, IN
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9251(C40-9W) CN 2408(C40-8M) BNSF 8508(SD70ACe) BNSF 8509(SD70ACe) BNSF 8506(SD70ACe) BNSF 8507(SD70ACe) BNSF 8510(SD70ACe)
Views:  1781   Comments: 7
Into the Tunnel goes the Red Brick Wall
Title:  Into the Tunnel goes the Red Brick Wall
Description:  This EB UP Stack Train, consisting of all Red K Line Containers, is being shoved by this UP SD70ACe along the Huntingdon Sub of UP's Portland Div
Photo Date:  9/28/2013  Upload Date: 10/8/2013 8:15:41 PM
Location:  Weatherby, OR
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8699(SD70ACe)
Views:  133   Comments: 1
New UP Unit
Title:  New UP Unit
Description:  While we do get some of the newer power off of the "Borg" It's generally few and far between, but none-the-less here is a new one
Photo Date:  1/15/2013  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 8:25:09 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8761(SD70ACe)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
New Unit leading
Title:  New Unit leading
Description:  A new BNSF SD70ACe leads a SB Coal Load along the Joint Line on a fine late winter day
Photo Date:  3/5/2013  Upload Date: 4/11/2013 10:36:34 PM
Location:  Larkspur, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9120(SD70ACe)
Views:  215   Comments: 3
Another Brand New Unit
Title:  Another Brand New Unit
Description:  BNSF SD70ACe awaits a trip to the Pueblo TTC
Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 1/8/2008 2:50:48 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9131(SD70ACe)
Views:  836   Comments: 0
Brand New and still fresh.
Title:  Brand New and still fresh.
Description:  One of two new BNSF SD70ACe's enroute to the Pueblo TTC.Unit has the "Isolated Cab" feature
Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 1/8/2008 2:48:23 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9134(SD70ACe)
Views:  463   Comments: 1
BNSF SD70ACe south w/Coal Loads
Title:  BNSF SD70ACe south w/Coal Loads
Description:  One of BNSF's SD70ACe's heads south near Goodlett Tx with another Coal Load.
Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 4/23/2009 11:57:09 PM
Location:  Goodlett, TX
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9156(SD70ACe)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
NS EB with a western visitor trailing
Title:  NS EB with a western visitor trailing
Description:  This EB NS train is slowing for a crew change. Trailing is a BNSF SD70ACe 9168
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/15/2010 6:16:31 PM
Location:  New Haven, IN
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8357(C40-8W) NS 8378(C40-8W) NS 8733(C40-8) BNSF 9168(SD70ACe)
Views:  375   Comments: 1
First snow of the year for this area of Colorado
Title:  First snow of the year for this area of Colorado
Description:  BNSF 9175 leads a SB Coal Load on Colorado's Joint Line just north of Larkspur on a snowy morning in these here parts
Photo Date:  10/25/2012  Upload Date: 10/25/2012 7:49:27 PM
Location:  Larkspur, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9175(SD70ACe)
Views:  315   Comments: 2
Not a bad looking unit. Kinda looks ALCO'ish
Title:  Not a bad looking unit. Kinda looks ALCO'ish
Description:  BNSF SD70ACe in the sun
Photo Date:  6/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 2:11:58 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9200(SD70ACe)
Views:  314   Comments: 2
The " Protect Engine"
Title:  The " Protect Engine"
Description:  BNSF assigns a single unit in Castle Rock, in case one of the numerous SB have problems on the Palmer Divide. They do get used. Power is for the most part either GE or EMD and usually one of the newer AC units. This is the one for this week
Photo Date:  3/7/2013  Upload Date: 4/11/2013 10:41:48 PM
Location:  Castle Rock, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9221(SD70ACe)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
BNSF Coal Loads in Washington
Title:  BNSF Coal Loads in Washington
Description:  2 WB BNSF Coal Loads await crews to get them farther west. Headed for Roberts Banks BC, I believe.
Photo Date:  7/16/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 5:22:04 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5813(ES44AC) BNSF 9229(SD70ACe)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
New SD70ACe
Title:  New SD70ACe
Description:  New SD70ACe at Denver
Photo Date:  7/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2008 7:11:05 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9237(SD70ACe)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
BNSF Rotary Set 972559
Title:  BNSF Rotary Set 972559
Description:  BNSF sends a Rotary south to Southern Colorado following the recent blizzard.
Photo Date:  3/28/2009  Upload Date: 3/28/2009 2:00:59 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  BNSF 9252(SD70ACe) BNSF 9732(SD70MAC)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Early BNSF SD70ACe
Title:  Early BNSF SD70ACe
Description:  BNSF SD70ACe 9389 from the first order
Photo Date:  12/5/2007  Upload Date: 1/8/2008 3:10:28 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9389(SD70ACe)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
BNSF 9390
Title:  BNSF 9390
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/2006  Upload Date: 9/30/2006 3:49:16 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9390(SD70ACe)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
The new Black Gold
Title:  The new Black Gold
Description:  One of many Oil Trains now traversing this line. More of these it seems than the previous version of Black Gold, ie: Coal, nowadays. Great for the RR's
Photo Date:  7/16/2014  Upload Date: 8/5/2014 7:14:07 PM
Location:  Becker, MN
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CN 5418(SD60) CN 2009(C40-8) BNSF 9396(SD70ACe)
Views:  364   Comments: 1
SB UFIX Loads lead by new BNSF SD70ACe 9397
Title:  SB UFIX Loads lead by new BNSF SD70ACe 9397
Description:  SB UFIX Loads on the main at Pueblo Co. SD70ACe 9397 leads 123 cars past the old hump leads
Photo Date:  1/11/2007  Upload Date: 1/29/2007 10:10:54 PM
Location:  Pueblo, CO
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9397(SD70ACe)
Views:  546   Comments: 0


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