BNSF 8277 Lake Park 18 Dec 06
BNSF 8277, a beautifully adorned BNSFbonnet SD75I, snakes a coal train through the S-curve entering Lake Park, MN on the Staples Sub.
So this was northern plains coal power in the mid-2000s: SD75s, SD60s, and SD60Ms. The days of DC-powered coal are mostly a memory now. There were a few re-paints at the time, but it was pretty common to catch the red and silver, Oakway blue, and Cascade Green mixed up in some combination back then.
This was a day I had met up with Christopher Muller (aka railtalk) and we were treated to gloriousness beyond just this photo, such as Cascade Green leading stacks:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/36140423011/
Or a quartet of SD40-2s:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/10862937546/
And a 5-pack of Geeps hauling a manifest:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/35453406676/
Variety was the name of the game for BNSF trains in North Dakota and Minnesota in the mid-2000s...what a great time to have been out!
BNSF 8277 Lake Park 18 Dec 06
BNSF 8277, a beautifully adorned BNSFbonnet SD75I, snakes a coal train through the S-curve entering Lake Park, MN on the Staples Sub.
So this was northern plains coal power in the mid-2000s: SD75s, SD60s, and SD60Ms. The days of DC-powered coal are mostly a memory now. There were a few re-paints at the time, but it was pretty common to catch the red and silver, Oakway blue, and Cascade Green mixed up in some combination back then.
This was a day I had met up with Christopher Muller (aka railtalk) and we were treated to gloriousness beyond just this photo, such as Cascade Green leading stacks:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/36140423011/
Or a quartet of SD40-2s:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/10862937546/
And a 5-pack of Geeps hauling a manifest:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/35453406676/
Variety was the name of the game for BNSF trains in North Dakota and Minnesota in the mid-2000s...what a great time to have been out!