BNSF 123 South at Clayton, Wash.
Some 31 years since they debuted on hotshots over Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's fabled Chicago–Los Angeles mainline, GP60M 123/GP60B 329/GP60B 339/GP60M 104/GP60M 108 find themselves working at a slower pace on BNSF Train M-CHWSPO1-09 (Manifest, Chewelah, Wash.–Spokane, Wash.) passing through Clayton, Wash. But make no mistake: The "Chewie Turn" ain't no retirement gig.
The GP60s offer precisely what's needed for BNSF Railway's Kettle Falls Subdivision running north out of Spokane: B-B trucks to comply with the subdivision's restriction on six-axle locomotives and 3,800 horsepower per locomotive to haul heavy lumber and sand shipments over the greater than 1-percent grades of the 56-mile route.
BNSF 123 South at Clayton, Wash.
Some 31 years since they debuted on hotshots over Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe's fabled Chicago–Los Angeles mainline, GP60M 123/GP60B 329/GP60B 339/GP60M 104/GP60M 108 find themselves working at a slower pace on BNSF Train M-CHWSPO1-09 (Manifest, Chewelah, Wash.–Spokane, Wash.) passing through Clayton, Wash. But make no mistake: The "Chewie Turn" ain't no retirement gig.
The GP60s offer precisely what's needed for BNSF Railway's Kettle Falls Subdivision running north out of Spokane: B-B trucks to comply with the subdivision's restriction on six-axle locomotives and 3,800 horsepower per locomotive to haul heavy lumber and sand shipments over the greater than 1-percent grades of the 56-mile route.