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BNSF 4164
Title:  BNSF 4164
Description:  A special military train rolls north near the abandoned station of Grande, New Mexico.
Photo Date:  5/22/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:42:30 AM
Location:  Grande, NM
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4164(C44-9W) BNSF 645(C44-9W)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
BNSF 4589
Title:  BNSF 4589
Description:  An empty grain train (BNSF X-KALONE) sits on the Marshall Subdivision main north of Sioux City, Iowa waiting for a track to open in the Sioux City Yard.
Photo Date:  5/26/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:49:53 AM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4589(C44-9W) BNSF 708(C44-9W) BNSF 4840(C44-9W)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
BNSF 718
Title:  BNSF 718
Description:  Eastbound grain loads pass alongside what will soon be the site of a realigned four-lane U.S. Highway 10 in Detroit Lakes. The building seen on the left is the former Northern Pacific depot and is still served daily by Amtrak's Empire Builder.
Photo Date:  3/9/2008  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:42:26 AM
Location:  Detroit Lakes, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 718(C44-9W)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
BNSF 720
Title:  BNSF 720
Description:  After meeting a coal train in the siding at Denton, Nebraska, the H-DENGAL proceeds east to the nearby Lincoln Yard, where it will spend some time sitting on the main waiting for a track to open.
Photo Date:  5/25/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:47:03 AM
Location:  Denton, NE
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 720(C44-9W)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
BNSF 741
Title:  BNSF 741
Description:  Westbound through the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota
Photo Date:  6/5/2004  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:27:28 PM
Location:  Casselton, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 741(C44-9W)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
BNSF 764
Title:  BNSF 764
Description:  A priority Z-train sails across the high bridge across the Sheyenne River west of Luverne, North Dakota. Although this bridge, built by the Great Northern, isn't quite as long or as high as its well-known Northern Pacific cousin crossing the Sheyenne about 30 miles dowstream in Valley City, it is nevertheless pretty impressive.
Photo Date:  4/18/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 12:57:39 AM
Location:  Luverne, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 764(C44-9W)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
BNSF 4579
Title:  BNSF 4579
Description:  One of BNSF's badly faded dash 9s leads a Z train around the curve a couple miles south of Hawley.
Photo Date:  7/17/2007  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 5:05:54 PM
Location:  Muskoda, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4579(C44-9W) BNSF 773(C44-9W)
Views:  491   Comments: 1
BNSF 968
Title:  BNSF 968
Description:  A rather short merchandise train travels west through the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota. Note that you can see the entire train in this picture.
Photo Date:  4/8/2006  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:14:45 PM
Location:  Casselton, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 968(C44-9W)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
KCS 4100
Title:  KCS 4100
Description:  A loaded grain train fresh from the Finley shuttle elevator about 14 miles away has a magnificent lead locomotive in the form of a KCS "southern belle" SD70ACe. You think the Canadian Geese were impressed by the colorful locomotive as well?
Photo Date:  4/18/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 12:57:41 AM
Location:  Hope, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  KCS 4100(SD70ACe) BNSF 5482(C44-9W) BNSF 1049(C44-9W)
Views:  763   Comments: 0
BNSF 1100
Title:  BNSF 1100
Description:  An H1 painted locomotive is in the lead of a Z-train west of Luverne, North Dakota and near the almost abandoned town of Karnak.
Photo Date:  10/27/2007  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:04:39 AM
Location:  Karnak, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1100(C44-9W) BNSF 949(C41-8W)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
BNSF 6120
Title:  BNSF 6120
Description:  A brief conference takes place along the Ravenna Sub west of Lincoln, Nebraska at CP 61 as a crew of a coal train (on right) prepares to swap trains with the crew of the H-PASKCK (on left), who have been sitting on main two for over four hours waiting for a track to open in the congested Lincoln Yard.
Photo Date:  5/25/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:47:05 AM
Location:  Lincoln, NE
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6120(ES44AC) BNSF 1101(C44-9W)
Views:  579   Comments: 0
BNSF 1103
Title:  BNSF 1103
Description:  The Northtown to Grand Forks manifest comes "home" as light snow falls over the Grand Forks yard
Photo Date:  1/31/2007  Upload Date: 2/9/2007 9:39:57 PM
Location:  Grand Forks, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1103(C44-9W)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
BNSF 1117
Title:  BNSF 1117
Description:  Two dash 9 and one dash 8, all in different paint schemes, lead a westbound grain train along the Yellowstone River near Terry. The train is about 9 miles away from the switch that will take it off the Forsyth Subdivision and onto the Hettinger Subdivision.
Photo Date:  7/11/2007  Upload Date: 7/28/2007 6:19:17 AM
Location:  Terry, MT
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1117(C44-9W) BNSF 808(C40-8W) BNSF 4404(C44-9W)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
BNSF 4081
Title:  BNSF 4081
Description:  The rear end of a loaded grain train continues west through the gently rolling countryside of east-central North Dakota.
Photo Date:  4/19/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 12:57:35 AM
Location:  Hannaford, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4081(C44-9W)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Military Train
Title:  Military Train
Description:  A unique train consisting entirely of military equipment that matches the northeast New Mexico countryside quite well passes by a sign advertising one of the many ranches in the Des Moines area as it continues north.
Photo Date:  5/22/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:42:29 AM
Location:  Des Moines, NM
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4164(C44-9W)
Views:  380   Comments: 1
Military Train
Title:  Military Train
Description:  A special military train creates a big L as it continues north past the abandoned station of Grande, New Mexico and countryside gradually transitioning from plains to mountains.
Photo Date:  5/22/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:42:30 AM
Location:  Grande, NM
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4164(C44-9W)
Views:  492   Comments: 1
BNSF 4184
Title:  BNSF 4184
Description:  The BNSF 4184 leads an autorack train through a serene setting west of Staples on a chilly April day.
Photo Date:  4/9/2007  Upload Date: 5/19/2007 4:18:38 AM
Location:  Staples, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4184(C44-9W)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
Special High-Wide Train
Title:  Special High-Wide Train
Description:  The BNSF 4308 leads a special high-wide move consisting of components for the Alberta Oil Sands project. After a quick crew change in the yard, the train was on its way to Noyes, MN, where it would be interchanged with the CN and head into Canada.
Photo Date:  5/4/2007  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 10:42:59 PM
Location:  Grand Forks, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4308(C44-9W)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
BNSF 4406
Title:  BNSF 4406
Description:  A manifest train passes by the wheat fields and buttes just east of Gladstone. In the foreground is Interstate 94, often quite a lonley road through this area.
Photo Date:  7/16/2006  Upload Date: 7/28/2006 4:52:17 PM
Location:  Gladstone, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4406(C44-9W) BNSF 5125(C44-9W)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
BNSF 4406
Title:  BNSF 4406
Description:  A manifest train passes by the wheat fields and hills just east of Gladstone.
Photo Date:  7/17/2006  Upload Date: 7/28/2006 4:52:17 PM
Location:  Gladstone, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4406(C44-9W) BNSF 5125(C44-9W)
Views:  488   Comments: 0
BNSF 5251
Title:  BNSF 5251
Description:  The H-DENBEL, with three GE locomotives in the same paint job belching out a bit of black smoke, crosses over a small creek just to the north of Cactus, Texas.
Photo Date:  5/23/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:42:35 AM
Location:  Etter, TX
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5251(C44-9W) BNSF 4455(C44-9W) BNSF 926(C40-8W)
Views:  584   Comments: 0
BNSF 4459
Title:  BNSF 4459
Description:  A crewless rock train is parked on the back track at Angora. The rock was to be used in construction of a second main track in the area.
Photo Date:  7/22/2006  Upload Date: 8/7/2006 11:43:24 AM
Location:  Angora, NE
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4459(C44-9W)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
BNSF 4513
Title:  BNSF 4513
Description:  It's not exactly in Minnesota, but it's les than a mile from the border. The "soup to nuts" manifest peeks out from one of the many curves on the northern end of the Hinckley Sub as it continues south to the Northtown Yard.
Photo Date:  6/8/2007  Upload Date: 6/12/2007 11:36:45 AM
Location:  Foxboro, WI
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4513(C44-9W)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
BNSF 4513
Title:  BNSF 4513
Description:  It's not exactly in Minnesota, but it's les than a mile from the border. The "soup to nuts" manifest peeks out from one of the many curves on the northern end of the Hinckley Sub as it continues south to the Northtown Yard.
Photo Date:  6/8/2007  Upload Date: 6/12/2007 11:38:14 AM
Location:  Foxboro, WI
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4513(C44-9W)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
BNSF 4601
Title:  BNSF 4601
Description:  The daily manifest train from Laurel, MT to Dilworth, MN has a KCS locomotive in the lead as it crosses the Maple River in Mapleton.
Photo Date:  10/28/2007  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:04:42 AM
Location:  Mapleton, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4601(C44-9W)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
BNSF 4635
Title:  BNSF 4635
Description:  A hot BNSF Z-PTLCHC rounds the curve coming into the city of Frazee, Minnesota on a pleasant morning in May.
Photo Date:  5/16/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:33:14 AM
Location:  Frazee, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4635(C44-9W)
Views:  591   Comments: 0
BNSF 4666
Title:  BNSF 4666
Description:  The H-NTWPAS doesn't have much daylight left as it races west through the trench at Hawley and toward the yard in Dilworth
Photo Date:  8/31/2007  Upload Date: 9/2/2007 8:33:03 PM
Location:  Hawley, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4666(C44-9W)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Swollen Red River 2006
Title:  Swollen Red River 2006
Description:  A train passes over the very swollen Red River between Fargo and Moorhead. At the time this photo was taken, the level of the river was 34.28 feet, down from the crest of 37.18 feet, which was the 5th highest level in history.
Photo Date:  4/8/2006  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 6:47:12 PM
Location:  Moorhead, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4672(C44-9W) BNSF 6350(SD40-2)
Views:  476   Comments: 1
BNSF 4688
Title:  BNSF 4688
Description:  An empty grain train (BNSF X-INBEME) going to Emery, South Dakota for reloading passes by an abandoned, "dancing," farmhouse on the outskirts of Bowman on former Milwaukee Road trackage.
Photo Date:  5/17/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:33:21 AM
Location:  Bowman, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4688(C44-9W)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
BNSF 4688
Title:  BNSF 4688
Description:  An empty grain train (BNSF X-INBEME) continues east through the desolate countryside along the former Milwaukee Road mainline to the Pacific Northwest in southwestern North Dakota.
Photo Date:  5/17/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:33:23 AM
Location:  Rhame, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4688(C44-9W)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
BNSF 4825
Title:  BNSF 4825
Description:  A northbound train full of coal crosses high above the Kettle River
Photo Date:  7/2/2005  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:24:42 PM
Location:  Sandstone, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4825(C44-9W)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
BNSF 4889
Title:  BNSF 4889
Description:  The daily Z train from Chicago to Laurel, still referred to with its BN symbol of "train 19" in these parts, is about to throw a wrench into operations on the Forsyth Subdivision (in the foreground) as it comes off the Hettinger Subdivision at Terry.
Photo Date:  7/11/2007  Upload Date: 7/28/2007 6:19:14 AM
Location:  Terry, MT
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4889(C44-9W)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
BNSF 4905
Title:  BNSF 4905
Description:  A westbound Z-train is out of the work zone at Detroit Lakes and quickly gaining speed as it comes past the 230th avenue crossing west of town.
Photo Date:  5/10/2007  Upload Date: 5/19/2007 4:18:41 AM
Location:  Detroit Lakes, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4905(C44-9W) BNSF 6795(SD40-2)
Views:  476   Comments: 1
BNSF 5045
Title:  BNSF 5045
Description:  The H-CSXPAS slowly moves north late in the day near Litle Falls, Minnesota.
Photo Date:  7/9/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 4:53:20 AM
Location:  Gregory, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5045(C44-9W)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
BNSF 5062
Title:  BNSF 5062
Description:  After taking the siding in town to meet a grain train, a stack train continues southeast with Hannaford, North Dakota at its back. Note the snow still sticking around in the trench despite a few days with temperatures above 60F (16C).
Photo Date:  4/19/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 12:57:37 AM
Location:  Hannaford, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5062(C44-9W)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
BNSF 5076
Title:  BNSF 5076
Description:  A Z-train rounds the curve coming into Hawley (note that the second unit is the BN 9670, an SD70MAC - a rare locomotive breed for a Z train)
Photo Date:  2/4/2006  Upload Date: 6/6/2006 7:54:28 PM
Location:  Hawley, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5076(C44-9W)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
BNSF 5234
Title:  BNSF 5234
Description:  A DPU at the end of an eastbound unit grain train continues its journey east by looking into the sun near Aldrich
Photo Date:  6/19/2006  Upload Date: 6/20/2006 11:55:40 AM
Location:  Aldrich, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5234(C44-9W)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
BNSF 5234
Title:  BNSF 5234
Description:  The DPU at the end of an eastbound unit grain train is about to go around the curve in Staples.
Photo Date:  6/19/2006  Upload Date: 6/20/2006 11:55:38 AM
Location:  Staples, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5234(C44-9W)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
BNSF 5244
Title:  BNSF 5244
Description:  An empty grain train (BNSF X-RGTENI) passes by one of the many flags waving around downtown Clara City, Minnesota. This train was actually a rare (for BNSF) one-unit wonder; the DPU that the train was supposed to have on the rear was cut off in the yard at Willmar, Minnesota, and the train was sent down the Marshall Subdivision with just one locomotive.
Photo Date:  5/26/2008  Upload Date: 7/19/2008 1:49:54 AM
Location:  Clara City, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5244(C44-9W)
Views:  374   Comments: 0
BNSF 5420
Title:  BNSF 5420
Description:  A colorful double-stack train nears Philbrook as it continues southeast through central Minnesota.
Photo Date:  11/25/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2006 11:02:15 AM
Location:  Philbrook, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5420(C44-9W)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
BNSF 5434
Title:  BNSF 5434
Description:  A short manifest train with plenty of power passes by the station sign at Verndale
Photo Date:  6/19/2006  Upload Date: 6/20/2006 11:55:41 AM
Location:  Verndale, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5434(C44-9W)
Views:  463   Comments: 1
BNSF 5488
Title:  BNSF 5488
Description:  A westbound train is about to pass under the overpass at Lake Park. Later on this spring, the ties currently in place will be replaced with the new ones now laying next to the tracks.
Photo Date:  4/3/2005  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:30:17 PM
Location:  Lake Park, MN
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5488(C44-9W)
Views:  369   Comments: 0


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