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BNSF Retired/Stored Locos

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BNSF Retired/Stored Locos
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 2, 2001 5:27 PM
I thought I read in Trains magazine that BNSF had either retired or stored all locomotives older than SD40-2s, or had put them into their "Surge Fleet" to be used only when demand was high.

I ask because I have seen an old SD9 (#6131) in BN green working the branch to the Coors factory in Golden, CO, near the Colorado Railroad Museum. I've also seen an SD9 in BNSF Heritage colors shoving a cut of cars back and forth in the BNSF yard north of downtown Denver.

I'm assuming the second one is an SD9, I really wouldn't know an SD9 from an SD7 or other early high-nose SD models. The first one had "SD9" painted on it near the front, the second one I saw from a distance...
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 20, 2001 3:11 AM
BNSF also has an SD9 in their old BN Green shoving cars at their yard in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Easiest way to tell a 7 from a 9 is in the classification lights; if they are in the middle of an access panel between it's a 7, the 9's classification lights are near the outer edges of the nose.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 23, 2001 8:11 AM
at the yards here in Springfield Missouri BNSF also uses chopped nose SD('s for yard work. speaking of the stored locos, there are usually a large ammount of C30-7's stored here. sometimes 20-30 of them
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:14 PM
To my understanding the SD9 is a major player in the BNSF plan as yard units.

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