Crew change, Cherokee Yard Tulsa, 5/10/21. Still Superfleet Bonnet proud. Well, all except that one panel.
That drives me nuts when you find an almost pristine loco, and the A/C unit is from a different loco....
Rosenberg, Texas on June 12. 2013. The old slab where Tower 17 once stood care barely be detected from below the front steps to below the front of the fuel tank.
SB full "Stinky" sitting in Auburn Yard today waiting for the dispatcher to give him the high green, with some by today's standards, classic EMD power. SD75I's, former coal train power, now on the lowly trash trains heading to Roosevelt, Wa with King County's garbage.
More SB "Stinky's" in Auburn Yard. Lot's of trash riding the rails! Gotta love the SD's assigned to these!
Did you notice #2827 on the opposing train? It has originally been a GP30 built in 1962 for the CB&Q. Around 1970 BN had it rebuilt into a GP39M by MK. BNSF now has it stenciled GP39-2R. Probably since it has been with PRLX in 2017.
Always good to see a former Southern unit still plying the rails even if she was beheaded and replaced with a new cab. Probably have a picture of her in her former Sothern glory tucked away my the print archives.
Looking at current pictures on Facebook (I don't post), I see a whole lot of BNSF units on the NS mainline through SC. The volume of units is amazing. Even warbonnets are showing up. I'm surprised that BNSF has any locomotives left on its home rails. Hopefully it means that business is booming on NS. So what's a "fakebonnet" anyway? I sometimes see the term.