Burlington Northern Locomotives

Photos by Mike Condren

SD40-2s
Part 3

This consist is seen in Texling, TX on May 20, 1980.

This unit is also in Texline, TX on May 20, 1980.

The meet is between westbound Santa Fe power and eastbound BN power is in Memphis on August 25, 1996.

This eastbound is seen as it approaches Kentucky St in Jan. 1987.

This eastbound freight is seen arriving at Kansas Ave July 23, 1995.

This freight is westbound at KC Jct on Sept 26, 1987.

This westbound freight is approaching Union Station in Joliet, IL on March 27, 1999

Another westbound freight is seen at Kansas Ave in Memphis on June 29, 1994.

Here is yet another westbound freight in Memphis in Sept. 1991.

Another empty unit coal train is seen in Texline, TX on May 30, 1980.

These units are at the east end of West Yard in Springfield, MO on August 13, 1996.

An eastbound freight is seen approaching Kentucky St in Jan. 1987.

In the late afternoon this frieght is seen heading eastbound at Kansas Ave in August 1996.

This westbound freight is seen at Kansas Ave in Memphis on May 27, 1996. Note the crowd of railfans in the second photo.

An eastbound freight is seen approaching Kansas Ave on Sept. 22, 1996.

I shot this westbound freight as it approached Kansas Ave in Memphis on July 9, 1995. Note that the engines trailing the first 2 units are very dirty SSW/SP units.
This train is next seen as it approaches Marion, AR.
And then at the yard in Harvard, AR.

This eastbound freight has 3 steel coil cars right behind the power in this photo at Kansas Ave in August 1997.

These 9 units are seen on a westbound freight from west of Riverside Drive in Memphis on Sept. 3, 1995.

Passing Kansas Ave is this eastbound freight approaching Kentucky St in Memphis on May 6, 1989.

An eastbound freight is seen east of the commuter station at Lisle, IL on June 19, 1979.

These units are on a westbound freight at Kansas Ave in Memphis in August 1997. That pig trailer must have something extremely valuable to warrent a special freight.

These units are charging up grade toward the Frisco bridge across the Mississippi River in Memphis in August 1993.

As seen north of Clarksdale, AR is a northbound freight heading toward Terrill, AR in Nov. 1995.

An eastbound piggy back freight is seen approaching East Dubuque, IL in 1999.

This SD40-2 is seen in the engine terminal in Memphis in Jan. 1990.

This westbound freight is seen at Kansas Ave on June 27, 1991.

I found these two sets of power at the north end of Tennessee Yard in Memphis.

This train is approaching Kentucky St on its westward journey across the Mississippi River on Nov. 10, 1996.

SD40-2 Part 4

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