Your Favorite BNSF Locomotive

Well, Mine is BNSF 1726. Now, why isn't it an SD60M, or an ES44AC? Simple. 1726 has a connection to my childhood. I first saw it as BN 6247, and we always saw 6247 doing work at the yard. He's still going strong after 55 years! He even got the H1 treatment...

http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails. ... toID=60799

http://www.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/SD9/6247.HTM

I don't have a particular unit Im fond of, but anything first or second-gen diesel would be on my list.

Particularly the GP and SD-7/9s in all their rebuilt and unrebuilt incarnations.

Mine is the BNSF 1731. Formerly BN 6126. I worked my first paid job as a trainman with that engine. Relief switch job. Long live the SD9's !

Like everyone else, I love the old SD9s. I think it is great the BNSF keeps them in service. I really don't care for the chopped rebuilt ones, only because I love high hooded locomotives! My favorites, or ones I can remember are 6101, 6127, 1717, 6120, and 6112. I wish they would put SD9s in the lead more though!

I always wanted to run the f or fp45's myself. Unfortunately they were gone by the time I hired out. But I did have the pleasure of operating the few SW type switchers that are left.

Right now BNSF 3111, since this is the only engine that works properly in the yard...

So what other units are in the yard? This pictures says it is now a GP25 and has been reduced to (surprise) 2500hp. Sure does look rough, but at least it was not a really good unit that got tagged.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... ?id=764926
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Any I'm not working off of.

SD40-2,AC44CW,SD70MAC,SD75M,C44-9W,GP38-2.

any cabless unit

uhaul wrote:So what other units are in the yard? This pictures says it is now a GP25 and has been reduced to (surprise) 2500hp. Sure does look rough, but at least it was not a really good unit that got tagged.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... ?id=764926
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3111 just looks rough... It needs a new paint job.
As far as other switch power... there are GP35's, GP30's and SD40's.

For me there was always something very cool looking about the GP-30.

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=142056&nseq=39

tj48 wrote:For me there was always something very cool looking about the GP-30.

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=142056&nseq=39

Aint that the truth. I like this paint a little better though...

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GN 559,

Aren't those the rebuilds GP39M's? We had one of those in the yard service. They were rebuilt in the early 90's.
GP30's are numbered 2400+

BNSF 4723 - the Microsoft Train Simulator locomotive. Yeah, just a boring C44-9W, but still, it was through running that loco in MSTS that I really started to develop an interest in the BN/BNSF and US railroading in general.