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To clarify, this portion of BNSF (former ATSF) was built as a high speed flyover to avoid a grade crossing with Wabash Railroad. The Wabash was never as busy as the Santa Fe in this area, and the rough crossing would have required unwanted speed restrictions on otherwise 90 mph territory. The Wabash line is long gone now, so the BNSF just flie .. More |
ES44C4
Diesel-electric locomotive
| Series: | GE Evolution |
| Build: | GE |
| Gauge: | 1435 mm |
| UIC axles: | (A1A)(A1A) |
| Length: | 22.3 m |
| Width: | 3.12 m |
| Height: | 4.7 m |
| Weight: | 188 t |
| Prime mover: | GE GEVO-12 |
| Power output: | 3300 kW |
| Source: | en.wikipedia.org |
Career
 | BNSF ES44C4 | BNSF Railway | 738 |
| FEC ES44C4 | Florida East Coast Railway | 20 |
| GECX ET44AC | General Electric Company | 4 |
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BNSF and NS run their parallel lines from here east to WB Jct. at Carrollton as joint trackage, with BNSF dispatchers in control. Frequently, BNSF will park trains on its own Main 2 for various reasons, leaving Main 1 and Main 3 open for traffic. However, the NS Main 3 is slower and more curvy than the 70-mph BNSF mains, so when BNSF trains ar .. More |
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GECX 2041 and GECX 2042, Tier 4, GE demo units. Distributed Power Units (DPU); GECX 2040 and GECX 2043, BNSF C NAMMLT, North Antelope Mine WY to Mill Texas, Tier 4-compliant GEVO's feature much larger radiators with split cooling. Pre-production demonstrator GEVO's also feature a "hump" in the middle of the long hood, which houses a u .. More |
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The JB Hunt stack train is coming out of BNSF Argentine Yard, heading for Chicago. The coalie is a southbound RWSX Alabama Power train, also on BNSF rails, which cross at grade with KCT at what was originally known as Frisco Crossing Interlocking. The middle level is the KCT High Line which is primarily used now by Union Pacific to send trains .. More |
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In this photo just east of Atherton, Missouri, in the Missouri River bottom-lands, a priority double-stack train cruises at track speed over the Atherton-Sibley Road. The framework over the tracks on the other side of the signals is a shifted-load detector, which has wires stretched vertically on both sides of each track about a foot from the .. More |
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There is a lot going on here in this scene. Amtrak #4, the Southwest Chief, is stopped at Kansas City Union Station with BNSF 8090, a new ES44C4, since one or both Amtrak P42DC units developed problems farther west. The BNSF unit will likely remain leading all the way to Chicago. A UP K-Line stack train heads west on the KCT, having utilized t .. More |
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BNSF 6574 is pulling a short train of stacks and containers, the majority of which is United Parcel Service (UPS) traffic, and is about to cross over in front of the other stacker (which is stopped), with clearance into Argentine Yard's intermodal facility. This is an almost daily occurrence, the one train overtaking and passing the other .. More |
Changed Aug 30, 2018 Report
