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5/8/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: BNSF Railway
Model:GE ES44DCBuilt As:BNSF 7849 (ES44DC)
Serial Number:60111Order No:1968
Frame Number: Built:4/2010
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 7849(ES44DC)
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BNSF 7849
Title:  BNSF 7849
Description:  An eastbound BNSF Railway double-stack train, Z-SBDWSP7-26A (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; San Bernardino CA to Willow Springs IL), rounds the curve at the east end of Silverwood as it approaches the Summit of Cajon Pass on June 26th, 2015. In just a few seconds, this train will meet a westbound, for which the clear signal on the cantilever in the background is intended.
Photo Date:  6/26/2015  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 12:00:26 PM
Location:  Silverwood, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7849(ES44DC) BNSF 8159(ES44C4) BNSF 8396(ES44C4) BNSF 5047(C44-9W)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
NS 8118 - Buena Park CA - 08/11/22
Title:  NS 8118 - Buena Park CA - 08/11/22
Description:  Holding Track 2 (of three mainlines) as it awaits an opening at Los Angeles Hobart Yard, and also awaiting a fresh crew as permission to proceed its final 16 miles, is BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-ATGLAC6-28L, which originated in Atlanta, Georgia. "Guaranteed Service" these days, however, likely doesn’t mean what it should, as crew shortages have dozens of westbound trains backed up for hundreds of miles on the BNSFs San Bernardino Sub, Cajon Sub and Needles Sub, creating delays of not just hours, but days. There is another westbound stopped two miles behind this train, and most likely another two miles ahead of it as well. Higher priority trains dont wait as long but a Q-train, the hottest on the BNSF, sitting without a crew would have never happened a few years ago. This train, with Norfolk Southern ES44AC 8118, BNSF ES44DC 7849 and BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4366 for power, was still sitting in the same location the next morning, and when I checked last was 99 hours 3 minutes behind schedule! (Buena Park, California – August 11, 2022)
Photo Date:  8/11/2022  Upload Date: 8/15/2022 9:29:18 PM
Location:  Buena Park, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8118(ES44AC) BNSF 7849(ES44DC) BNSF 4366(C44-9W)
Views:  37   Comments: 0


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