The Pill brings one hopper south on the Batavia Branch.
BNSF 2911 is a little off the beaten path as it works the CN yard at Trout Lake. When the switching is done the short train will depart for Newberry. It has been a rough winter and power assignmen... (more)
The "BN Barstow" job makes it's normal weekday run west from Barstow to Rock Island at the west end of Moline siding with "the pill" BNSF 2911 with it's experimental patch job.
The Pill slowly makes its way thru East Moline with 427.
The Pill working the yard in Barstow.
A neat catch, in the form of the experimental "Pill" scheme, thunders out of Joliet with the westbound Y JOL201.
Power in BNSF's Galesburg Illinois yard wait for their next assignment.
BN GP39E 2911, known as "The Pill", heads west through Ancona, with help from BNSF GP38-2 2351 and BN GP50 3135.
Rebuilt from Frisco GP35 710, this GP39E has a one of a kind paint scheme
BNSF to CN transfer freight with an ex-BN unit and two ex-ATSF units.
The daily BN to CN transfer is once again led by BNSF 2911 with its' unusal paint scheme. Job 178 passes the loaded coal train of BNSF 5329 as it approaches Industrial Avenue.
Today's BN-CN transfer is led by a white-faced, green-body GP39E as it waits to approach CN's Johnston Yard from Industrial Avenue.
Unusual lettering and cabside numbering.
2911 is one of 2 locomotives painted in this experimental BNSF paint scheme.