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The wonders of rail photography in the digital information age:
While sitting at the kitchen table during the Saturday lunch hour, I happened to spot a "heads up" post on a Facebook railroad group from hours earlier about an unusual BNSF lashup leading a road train in northwestern Illinois bound for the Twin Cities. Using followup location postings I was able to form a rough ETA on the nearby St. Croix sub. I then finished lunch, loaded up the kids and we set out to stake out a spot to intercept it for a photo. Within the hour I was able to bag this GALNTW manifest, led by a former Santa Fe "Bluebonnet" GP50.
BNSF 3167 was built as the ATSF 3814 in Febuary 1981.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
March 18, 2023
Cheat code
The wonders of rail photography in the digital information age:
While sitting at the kitchen table during the Saturday lunch hour, I happened to spot a "heads up" post on a Facebook railroad group from hours earlier about an unusual BNSF lashup leading a road train in northwestern Illinois bound for the Twin Cities. Using followup location postings I was able to form a rough ETA on the nearby St. Croix sub. I then finished lunch, loaded up the kids and we set out to stake out a spot to intercept it for a photo. Within the hour I was able to bag this GALNTW manifest, led by a former Santa Fe "Bluebonnet" GP50.
BNSF 3167 was built as the ATSF 3814 in Febuary 1981.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
March 18, 2023