Last June I photographed BNSF 1512 in Seattle and have been wanting to do a bit of research on this units history which dates back to 1957. The 1512 was originally built as GN 714, one of 10 units numbered 712-722 delivered in the Spring of 1957 equipped with dynamic brakes in the Classic Empire [...]

While not one of BN’s presecessor roads the ex-Conrail GP38′s BN picked up are pretty interesting in my opinion so after having photographed BNSF GP38 2185 in Seattle this summer I did a bit of history searching on the locomotive.   It was built for Penn Central in June of 1970 as GP38 7863 and [...]

On Thursday 1-15-09 I photographed the BNSF 8175 on a southbound freight at Everett, WA and did not realize that this was a former BN SD60M as it passed by. It was built as the BN 9275 2/91 and was used primarily in coal train service. I photographed it at Seattle’s Interbay yard on 6-9-94. [...]

In January of 1969 EMD produced SD45 522 for the CB&Q. It was one of 15 SD45′s built for the Burlington numbered 516-530 and painted in the green/white scheme. After the BN merger in 1970 I only noted one CB&Q numbered SD45 in the Seattle area and that was the 522 coming into Interbay on [...]

This first update of BN Survivors (and the premerger partners) is for the BNSF SW1500 3450. BNSF 3450 was built as the GN 204,  part of an order of 10 SW1500′s for the Great Northern in October of 1967.  Delivered in Big Sky Blue the first 5 units (200-204) were assigned to Spokane, WA and [...]