Ferromex on the BNSF

[sd40-2-6002]

During my recent trip from Calgary to Great Falls, Montana, I spotted Ferromex 4648 running behind BNSF 4902 at Sweetgrass, Montana. Is this common to find Ferromex power running with BNSF? Thanks. I have attached a couple of images of 4902 and Ferromex 4648.

Peter McLaughlin
http://www.busdrawings.com

 

[setxrailfan]

Very common on the BNSF in Texas and Louisiana.

 

[sd40-2-6002]

Very common on the BNSF in Texas and Louisiana.

Interesting! I guess that wouldn't surprise me down in that area. But up here in the north at the Montana / Alberta border seems to be a bit far from home for this unit. Maybe it's more common than I think as this is my first time railfanning the BNSF in Montana.

 

[Pilawt]

Last March I spied one in the middle of the consist of a UP train on BNSF trackage in Portland, Oregon:

 

[Conductor Rees]

We are very short on power they are using whatever they can get their hands on.

 

[BN 4246]

Why is the BNSF short on power? Aren't their hundreds of locomotives still in storage? Has traffic come back that much that there is no power? I mean, I haven't seen lots of SD60Ms or SD40-2s or anything a little older that were mothballed when the economy fell apart, running around now. A few, but not in the numbers I'd expect if BNSF were power hungry.

 

[Abilene Ks Railfan]

I see Ferromex a lot on BNSF and some UP trains, Just yesterday I caught a solid Ferromex consist on a westbound BNSF grain empty, had 2 new SD70ACe's, with an ES44AC in the middle

 

[espee4441]

Got to see a coal train headed to Roberts Bank last week. A Grinstein SD70MAC was on the point followed by a FXE Gevo. Blew my socks off only because I was literally on the border waiting in line at Blaine. Wished I had the camera ready to get a FXE unit rolling north into Deltaport.....I've seen plenty of Ferromex units here in Seattle, but that was the first time I ever saw one on a unit coal train bound for Canada.

 

[ryanbytes]

I've seen them on the UP a couple times here in Chicago.

 

[Cliffs]

Here are a couple of captures from today.

Thanks to a Heads-Up from otlocal, I was able to catch the Barstow-Pasco this morning at Moody on the Oregon trunk. Then again later in the afternoon departing Maryhill, WA.

 

[NM_RailNut]

They've shown up on quite a few trains running through Belen, and I've even seen one or two make their way to Albuquerque (which isn't too unusual, as any available six-axle power is used on the Albuquerque-Belen locals, including power from trains terminating at Belen).

 

[CN Sparky]

I see them once in a while parked waiting at the Thornton shops, waiting for a BN southbound train to run.