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Matt Smith's Collection
 
4/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Matt Smith
Dates:7/1/1976 - 12/31/2099
Album Info:All photos taken on the BNSF Railway.
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Santa Fe Corwith Yard
Title:  Santa Fe Corwith Yard
Description:  EMD SD60 EMDX 9041, sits with test units 5740 & 169 at Corwith Yard
Photo Date:  6/23/1993  Upload Date: 8/31/2009 8:10:43 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 9041(SD60) EMDX 5740(SD45X) EMDX 169(SDP40F)
Views:  2892   Comments: 1
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  Soaking up the sun on a Friday BNSF 2436 & 2641, sit waiting to go to work on the siding in front of the old CB&Q depot in Fremont, surrounded by waiting rail cars.
Photo Date:  9/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:37:13 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2436(GP30u)
Views:  292   Comments: 1
EKCMRWM166
Title:  EKCMRWM166
Description:  Southern Belle, SD70ACe, KCS 4111, leads BNSF 5648, and sister "Belle", KCS 4048, west with 125 coal empties, as they speed into the setting sun, on the way back to the Powder River Basin for another load of black gold.
Photo Date:  9/19/2008  Upload Date: 8/21/2009 11:20:34 PM
Location:  Grand Island, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4111(SD70ACe) BNSF 5648(AC44CW) KCS 4048(SD70ACe)
Views:  619   Comments: 1
CNAMMHS133
Title:  CNAMMHS133
Description:  BNSF 6070 & 5692, with 123 loads of coal, and DPU BNSF 5960 shoving hard, comes around the corner and right into the morning sun, as it rises on another sunny fall day along the Revenna Sub., just 17 miles after a crew change.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/21/2009 11:24:51 PM
Location:  Cairo, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6070(ES44AC)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
BNSF 9852 East
Title:  BNSF 9852 East
Description:  BNSF 9852 & 9408, with DPU KCS 4580 hustle up out of the South Loup River valley, in Ravenna, having just preformed a crew change, with 128 cars of black gold, bound for Midwest Energy Resources, in parent company Detroit Edison coal gons.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/21/2009 11:31:27 PM
Location:  Ravenna, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9852(SD70MAC)
Views:  520   Comments: 5
CBTMCID024
Title:  CBTMCID024
Description:  Making a hard pull out of the South Loup River valley, is the CBTMCID024, with all the power on the head end, and no DPU, is BNSF 5875, UP 5881 & UP 6077, heading west with coal for Detroit Edison.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/21/2009 11:33:51 PM
Location:  Ravenna, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5878(ES44AC) UP 5881(AC44CWCTE) UP 6077(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
BNSF 9692 East
Title:  BNSF 9692 East
Description:  Heading down grade and around the curves, a loaded coal train, heads eastbound towards Mullen and a power plant to the east, with BNSF 6122, in DPU mode and BNSF 9692 & KCS 4612 leading, using its dynamic brakes to slow the train.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:21:03 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6122(ES44AC)
Views:  248   Comments: 1
EPAMNAM257
Title:  EPAMNAM257
Description:  Having chased this train for over four hours, getting ahead then he would catch up, back and forth, the crew had gotten to know us pretty good, and in this final meet, they gave us a good play on the horn as they sailed by, with BNSF 9772, 8915, & 8894, with 135 empties.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:22:30 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9772(SD70MAC) BNSF 8915(SD70MAC) BNSF 8894(SD70MAC)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
ECEBNAM240
Title:  ECEBNAM240
Description:  BNSF 6163, with BNSF 5699, 135 cars, and DPU BNSF 8825, is just the third empty coal train to pass at this location in two hours, pulling hard up the 0.6% grade towards Alliance and another load of coal.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:23:40 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6163(ES44AC) BNSF 5699(AC44CW)
Views:  780   Comments: 6
BNSF 8862 West
Title:  BNSF 8862 West
Description:  As the sun sets lower in the western sky, BNSF sends us this light power move at MP 276, towards Alliance, with a total of 36600 HP, that includes seven SD70MACs and two SD70ACes.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:24:43 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8863(SD70MAC)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
BNSF 9204 West
Title:  BNSF 9204 West
Description:  BNSF 9204 turns into the setting sun, as it comes out of the S curve, just outside of Hecla, with 135 empties, and DPU BNSF 9726, as it battles uphill in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:26:02 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9204(SD70ACe)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
CCDMGAI012
Title:  CCDMGAI012
Description:  Another "Southern Belle", KCS 4685, in DPU mode assists in slowing its load of coal down, as it runs down hill with 135 cars of coal, and BNSF 8867 up front, with the sun just moments away from going behind the sand hills.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:26:59 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4685(ES44AC)
Views:  212   Comments: 2
EKEBEBM008
Title:  EKEBEBM008
Description:  As the sun sets, the last westbound empty of the daylight, makes it way up hill, with BNSF 6204 & 5899, at MP 276, bound for a crew change still 90 miles away, in Alliance, well after dark.
Photo Date:  9/20/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:27:51 PM
Location:  Hecla, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6204(ES44AC)
Views:  217   Comments: 1
BNSF 9437 West
Title:  BNSF 9437 West
Description:  Two veteran cream and green SD70MACs, BNSF 9437 & 9531, roll westbound with coal empties, in a photo that just says western Nebraska, with hay rolls and the Sand Hills, as they close in on a crew change in Alliance.
Photo Date:  9/21/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:30:09 PM
Location:  Lakeside, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9437(SD70MAC) BNSF 9531(SD70MAC)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
BNSF 9159 East
Title:  BNSF 9159 East
Description:  Stopped second in line, at the east end double track, BNSF 9159 & 9730, wait for a few westbound trains to clear single track, before they continue on east with there load of coal.
Photo Date:  9/21/2008  Upload Date: 8/23/2009 8:31:28 PM
Location:  Ellsworth, NE
Author:  Matt Smith
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9159(SD70ACe) BNSF 9730(SD70MAC)
Views:  834   Comments: 1


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