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Ex GN 2210 and former Burlington GP40 3012 lead a westbound BN freight on the east side of LaGrange, Illinois |
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The earliest days of the Burlington Northern. The numbers would soon change on those F units and the NP scheme would be replaced with BN green. |
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F units also came back to three tracks as this Great Northern set is heading westbound still in the original colors and numbers. The third unit is a Burlington U boat. |
| Still in their original Great Northern colors, two renumbered GP30's are headed around the curve just west of Lisle in this April, 1971 shot. |
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The rainbow era was upon us as a Burlington GP30 is led by a repainted F unit in BN colors and a Northern Pacific F7 in the lead approaching Cicero Yards in December, 1970. |
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Still in the original Northern Pacific colors, two GE U-25-C's pull a freight through Berwyn in this January, 1972 shot. . |
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A Northern Pacific SD-45 is coupled with a Great Northern F-45 as they head west in early April, 1970 by the Highlands station. |
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Burlington EMD units head eastbound through Montgomery, Illinois in this April, 1970 scene. |
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The BN mixed their power as seen in this shot showing a renumbered GN U-boat still in "Big Sky Blue" colors pulling a freight in Berwyn in this December, 1970 scene. |
| Burlington's SD45's were painted green in anticipation of the merger. Here is one of those units pulling what appears to be #97, the hotshot to Seattle through Highlands. |
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In its Northern Pacific colors, SD45 6425 heads west near Shabona, Illinois in April, 1971. This was on the high speed Zephyr line. |
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Foreign power was not all that unusual as these Union Pacific GP-30's head east around the same curve west of Lisle on a cool April, 1971 Sunday. |
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More of the SD40-2's heading west on track 2 in Berwyn. By 1977 there were few if any pre-merger units floating around the system: everything was green. |
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Rochelle, a few years later as SD40-2 heads a fast eastbound freight through town. |
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No, this is the Milwaukee Road north of Deerfield with a re-routed BN freight due, no doubt, to the Mississippi River flooding. F-45 6644 has the honors. |
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Remote Control BNSF unit
SD-40 6332 sits next to some Canadian Pacific units just
south of the CPR bridge at Nortown Yards. 6-2003 |
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A BNSF transfer run below
Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul, Minnesota |
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A rainbow of locomotives in
this Summer, 2000 scene near St. Anthony. The CPR unit
is a mystery! |
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