BNSF Glendive, MT

badlandnp Sep 6, 2015

  1. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Had a job up in Sidney yesterday, which had me driving home later in the day, when I caught this empty oil can bound from Glendive to Williston, ND.



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  2. badlandnp

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    Yesterday mornings ice fog train, this was just too much fun!

     
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    Yesterday morning also, and this guy was doing a little switching, while fouling the mainline. PIC_0977.JPG
    And later in the day another train was doing some switching, and the sunset reflections were just neat,



    On Wed, the 8th, the yard was fairly empty on the east end, giving an unusual view of town and eastbound power from this angle,
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    Same power form the town/mainstreet side.
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  4. ddechamp71

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    Good to see a good old 40-2 still wearing BN paintscheme... ;)

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    Still see a few around, and they are purty! Would be neat to see a white face, white stripe on a new -9.
     
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    The start of a good day of railfanning on a trip to Billings and back.Thought it was a good start to see the Z train getting set to leave, and with KCS on head end with a couple of un-marred BN hoppers! PIC_0989.JPG PIC_0992.JPG PIC_0993.JPG
    And then a video of the first vid of the day, at the west switch of Hathaway,
     
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    Then caught this second coal train eastbound just west of Forsyth, which had an almost empty yard.


    The next catch was just near Worden, MT and Jones Junction. This train was waiting, and I spotted the NOT orange loco, STOP for pics, PIC_0999.JPG PIC_0001.JPG
     
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    Then later in the day while headed back, I got this standing grain train at Pompeys Pillar siding,
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    Then proceeding east, got this westbound grain,
     
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    And finally home to a nearly empty yard, which gave a view of the deadline of 70MAC's and this FURX GP38-2, PIC_0012.JPG

     
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    A couple of badly flat spotted wheels in that grainer. Pounding away.... :(
     
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    I hear a lot of wheels pounding away anymore. And see a lot of them getting changed out here on the RIP track.
     
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  12. Kurt Moose

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    Same here in BNSF's Auburn Yard. Two to three grain trains are usually in the yard, and they are constantly pulling out "bad order" cars for changing out wheel sets. They even built a new covered area just for this!
     
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    This train full of DIT (Dead in tow) SD70MAC's was having issues with it's air, which is common in cold weather getting DIT sets to play nice. Here's some pics where they were sitting half out of the yard/half on the main. A video follows where they got our of the yard, then dynamited the air again!
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    Ooops, next post for those. The boxcar is sitting near the main, thought I would investigate while waiting for train to move...
     
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    Here sits the power just a few cars out onto the mainline, everything behind 9782 is DIT. 9782 was in my video from earlier as the lead on a coal train. This is neat that the lead on this train is a BNSF, followed by a SF warbonnet then a Grinstein green!
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    And the video of the movement,

     
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    Here she is, 9782, on the 17th pulling that coal into town.

     
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    Sat morning, I caught this LONG freight switching out some cars off the rear of the train. In these photos, the head end is fouling the east end of the main, probably a half miles worth, up over the hump and around the corner. in the video at the end, the train is backing down into the yard after setting out some tanks. PIC_0043.JPG PIC_0044.JPG PIC_0046.JPG

    This video is long, with a lot of different cars, as backing in is a slow process.

     
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  17. Kurt Moose

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    Nice!! That train led by 6512 has 4 different paint schemes on the power!
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    It sure is fun when things get a good mix going!
     
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    Yesterday morning saw heavy wet popcorn snow, so I had to go hunting for opportunities! Here, this set of power was exiting the service track and getting on it's train. After going around, the snow made for some interesting pics of the two MOW pieces sitting in the way. PIC_0067.JPG PIC_0066.JPG PIC_0068.JPG PIC_0069.JPG PIC_0070.JPG PIC_0071.JPG PIC_0072.JPG PIC_0073.JPG
     
  20. Kurt Moose

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    Be a little tough getting those MoW machines to fire up in that cold I bet!:confused::eek:
     

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