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Rick Erben's Collection
 
4/16/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: BNSF Railway
Model:GE C44-9WBuilt As:BNSF 5279 (C44-9W)
Serial Number:53328Order No:1938
Frame Number: Built:8/2001
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 5279(C44-9W)
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Title:  Dark to light
Description:  BNSF 5279 has yet another grain empty, exiting Shed No.7.
Photo Date:  10/1/2010  Upload Date: 10/9/2010 1:12:14 PM
Location:  Blacktail, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5279(C44-9W)
Views:  268   Comments: 1
Is this cool or what
Title:  Is this cool or what
Description:  Power against geography makes for some thrilling shows.
Photo Date:  10/1/2010  Upload Date: 10/9/2010 12:43:08 PM
Location:  Blacktail, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5279(C44-9W)
Views:  310   Comments: 2
Yampai Afternoon-I
Title:  Yampai Afternoon-I
Description:  The spirits of trainwatching smiled this afternoon as activity at Yampai was fairly steady. In the days of 251 (current of traffic) dispatching , the speed trains made over hills was valuable information in determining their future location in relation to following hotshots. On UP we would use their speed over Creston to determine speed over Tipton and, later, on the climb from Spring Valley to Altamont. BNSF 5279 comes chugging up the grade from Pica to Yampai. Dispatchers would use information about speed on the hill here to determine what a train would do climbing west from Needles.
Photo Date:  4/20/2011  Upload Date: 9/23/2011 12:58:32 PM
Location:  Yampai, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5279(C44-9W) BNSF 7786(ES44DC) BNSF 8280(SD75I)
Views:  667   Comments: 1


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