A pair of BNSF machines: A GP35 and a SW1500.

BNSF2602GB_190402

STILL GOING STRONG after 40 years of service, ex-Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe GP35 No. BNSF 2602 still looks good in its albeit faded coat of Great Northern-inspired BNSF Heritage I paint, as it switches at Victorville, California, on April 19th, 2002. The 2,500hp GP35-line was the first of a line of EMD-built locomotives that kept the same basic look right through to the first of the Norfolk Southern SD70s.

BNSF3428GB_220902

Built for the grandly named St Louis-San Francisco in 1970 (as the SLSF 343), Burlington Northern Santa Fe SW1500 No. BNSF 3428 could be found switching the industrial park on the south side of Avondale Yard, North Kansas City, Missouri, on September 22nd, 2002. The locomotive passed to the Burlington Northern on the merger with the ‘Frisco’ in 1980 (as the BN 48), and thence to the mighty BNSF.