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6/6/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Getting ready to move....in the morning fog.
Title:  Getting ready to move....in the morning fog.
Description:  They would cutoff the two rear uniss, and pick up some stacks in the yard. We would see 6661 at Dallas City later....
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 5:49:19 PM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 6661(ES44C4)
Views:  456   Comments: 1
The train is together.........
Title:  The train is together.........
Description:  The lead unit was photoed earlier in Fort Madison, has put some stacks together, and on it's way thru Dallas City.
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 6:47:40 PM
Location:  Dallas City, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6661(ES44C4)
Views:  394   Comments: 0
Keep pushing......
Title:  Keep pushing......
Description:  DPU on the back end, with quite a few bulkhead flatcars, with large I-beams.
Photo Date:  9/7/2023  Upload Date: 9/16/2023 4:06:21 PM
Location:  Peruque, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6671(ES44C4)
Views:  98   Comments: 1
BNSF 6673
Title:  BNSF 6673
Description:  Location is a guess at this time.
Photo Date:  6/11/2020  Upload Date: 1/12/2025 9:05:43 PM
Location:  Willow Springs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6673(ES44C4)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
Slinking thru the yard..
Title:  Slinking thru the yard..
Description:  Mixed freight that we had followed, now making it's way thru the yard
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/4/2017 6:54:42 AM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6677(ES44C4) BNSF 9354(SD70ACe)
Views:  472   Comments: 2
Slinking off the bridge....
Title:  Slinking off the bridge....
Description:  Stretching all the way back to the bridge, and beyond, this rack train heads for the crew change point.
Photo Date:  9/3/2022  Upload Date: 9/8/2022 9:56:25 AM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6677(ES44C4)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
BNSF 6683
Title:  BNSF 6683
Description:  Not an intermodal this time at La Plata.
Photo Date:  11/13/2021  Upload Date: 1/12/2025 9:08:25 PM
Location:  La Plata, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6683(ES44C4)
Views:  122   Comments: 0
First train of the day......
Title:  First train of the day......
Description:  Did not have to wait long for the first train to appear......an autorack coming thru the switch.
Photo Date:  9/17/2016  Upload Date: 9/28/2016 9:27:23 AM
Location:  Sibley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6689(ES44C4)
Views:  438   Comments: 3
BNSF 6690
Title:  BNSF 6690
Description:  Also parked and not running.
Photo Date:  3/20/2024  Upload Date: 3/20/2024 6:24:09 PM
Location:  Madison, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 6690(ES44C4)
Views:  132   Comments: 1
The parked trio......
Title:  The parked trio......
Description:  Waiting for something to do....
Photo Date:  3/20/2024  Upload Date: 3/20/2024 6:24:59 PM
Location:  Madison, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 9114(SD70ACe) BNSF 6690(ES44C4) BNSF 8386(ES44C4)
Views:  199   Comments: 1
BNSF 6695
Title:  BNSF 6695
Description:  Waiting under the Hwy 27 spans provided us some shade and this stacker headed for Fort Madison.
Photo Date:  9/3/2022  Upload Date: 9/8/2022 9:51:43 AM
Location:  Argyle, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6695(ES44C4)
Views:  194   Comments: 1
BNSF 6695 again...
Title:  BNSF 6695 again...
Description:  Caught at Argyle initially...must have been a bit longer crew change!
Photo Date:  9/3/2022  Upload Date: 9/8/2022 9:54:36 AM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6695(ES44C4)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
From the walkway...
Title:  From the walkway...
Description:  Caught this tank train from the overhead, coming into Fort Madison.
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 6:36:42 PM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6708(ES44C4)
Views:  454   Comments: 2
BNSF 6713
Title:  BNSF 6713
Description:  Running down hil toward La Plata
Photo Date:  9/3/2017  Upload Date: 9/16/2017 6:20:43 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6713(ES44C4)
Views:  113   Comments: 3
Parked at Gibbs...
Title:  Parked at Gibbs...
Description:  The head end of the intermodal that was parked at Gibbs.
Photo Date:  11/24/2017  Upload Date: 11/28/2017 7:01:04 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal
Locomotives:  BNSF 6731(ES44C4) BNSF 4425(C44-9W)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
BNSF 6746
Title:  BNSF 6746
Description:  Fresh looking leader on point of this manifest, that would go into the hole at Gibb......
Photo Date:  8/8/2024  Upload Date: 8/9/2024 9:27:11 PM
Location:  Peruque, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6746(ES44C4)
Views:  208   Comments: 1
Bringing up the rear....
Title:  Bringing up the rear....
Description:  This train zooms past one from the NS side, and one that has been waiting for some time!
Photo Date:  9/17/2016  Upload Date: 10/4/2016 9:55:16 PM
Location:  Hardin, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6758(ES44C4)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
BNSF 6787
Title:  BNSF 6787
Description:  Waiting just before entering Clarksville.
Photo Date:  6/26/2020  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 6:27:44 PM
Location:  Clarksville, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6787(ES44C4)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
BNSF 6787 and friends...
Title:  BNSF 6787 and friends...
Description:  Five on the front of this stack train, which will shortly switch crews with the previos train. Crew issues in KC!
Photo Date:  11/2/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:07:48 PM
Location:  Mendon, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6787(ES44C4)
Views:  132   Comments: 1
Coming thru......
Title:  Coming thru......
Description:  The intermodal shoots by, as it makes it's way to a crossover, about 3/4 of a mile away. The second third, of the 3 way meet.
Photo Date:  9/5/2020  Upload Date: 9/17/2020 4:06:04 PM
Location:  Mendon, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8175(ES44C4) BNSF 6798(ES44C4)
Views:  519   Comments: 1
All by myself, for the moment....
Title:  All by myself, for the moment....
Description:  The "I gotta go" train makes it's way past us, on the way to a crossover.
Photo Date:  9/5/2020  Upload Date: 9/17/2020 4:06:59 PM
Location:  Mendon, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6798(ES44C4)
Views:  372   Comments: 1
They would be left behind....
Title:  They would be left behind....
Description:  This was our first power on Saturday morning, in tje fog, as we checked Fort Madison before we hit the road. The trailing units would be cut off.
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 5:50:48 PM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 6831(ES44C4)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
Not a stacker...
Title:  Not a stacker...
Description:  Two bay hopper train makes it's way to Fort Madison
Photo Date:  5/27/2017  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 6:40:37 PM
Location:  Fort Madison, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6846(ES44C4) BNSF 8057(ES44C4)
Views:  560   Comments: 1
Another quick shot....
Title:  Another quick shot....
Description:  While trying to decide to stay on this side of the building, or the other, this train came flying thru La Plata.
Photo Date:  9/5/2020  Upload Date: 9/17/2020 4:34:44 PM
Location:  La Plata, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6846(ES44C4)
Views:  343   Comments: 1
BNSF 6853
Title:  BNSF 6853
Description:  Another manifest, about to pass thru Gibbs.
Photo Date:  7/2/2022  Upload Date: 7/6/2022 4:32:33 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6853(ES44C4)
Views:  338   Comments: 1
How foggy was it today????
Title:  How foggy was it today????
Description:  After finishing some volunteer work, I was near the K Line. Hearing a passinmg train, I decided to go look. Spotted a freight crossing the Mo River bridge, and headed for Hwy 94. I was not ready for the thermal inversion that I encountered. This mixed freight appeared, and just as quickly disappeared........
Photo Date:  3/3/2015  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 9:54:26 PM
Location:  West Alton, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6856(ES44C4)
Views:  373   Comments: 1
BNSF 6862
Title:  BNSF 6862
Description:  Five on the front on another stacker, racing thru Bosworth!
Photo Date:  5/7/2022  Upload Date: 5/9/2022 4:53:00 PM
Location:  Bosworth, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6862(ES44C4)
Views:  182   Comments: 1
BNSF 6864 & 6312 surround an ACe....
Title:  BNSF 6864 & 6312 surround an ACe....
Description:  With a trio on the front, this empty coal drag heads back to the Powder River basin for more black Diamonds. The signal, which I think goes back to CB&Q days, mmight be short lived, as they update the Hannibal sub.
Photo Date:  3/27/2015  Upload Date: 3/31/2015 3:47:11 PM
Location:  Wilkie, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6864(ES44C4) BNSF 6312(ES44AC)
Views:  542   Comments: 1
BNSF 6877
Title:  BNSF 6877
Description:  Another stacker appears.
Photo Date:  9/4/2021  Upload Date: 3/5/2025 4:43:09 PM
Location:  Baring, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6877(ES44C4)
Views:  118   Comments: 0
Taking to the side..........
Title:  Taking to the side..........
Description:  This mixed freight, on the BNSF Hannibal Sub/K Line, takes to the side. Would block the main just past the signals, so as not to halt auto traffic at Mo-P. Lot's of tie replacement on this line at this time. MOW eqpt can be found at"Annada, Elsberry, Winfield and Old Monroe, MO. at
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 3:20:29 PM
Location:  Elsberry, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6882(ES44C4)
Views:  338   Comments: 2
BNSF 6886
Title:  BNSF 6886
Description:  Another ES44, but on a mixed freight, heading for the siding at Gibb
Photo Date:  4/3/2013  Upload Date: 4/4/2013 3:34:07 PM
Location:  Peruque, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6886(ES44C4)
Views:  437   Comments: 1
BNSF 6887
Title:  BNSF 6887
Description:  Some place close to Kahoka.
Photo Date:  9/4/2021  Upload Date: 3/5/2025 4:43:13 PM
Location:  Kahoka, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6887(ES44C4)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
My first train catch across the new bridge....
Title:  My first train catch across the new bridge....
Description:  My first train catch, across the new bridge at Old Monroe happened to be a manifest.
Photo Date:  6/19/2020  Upload Date: 6/21/2020 12:19:56 PM
Location:  Old Monroe, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6888(ES44C4)
Views:  91   Comments: 1
The crew change point....
Title:  The crew change point....
Description:  Crew issues at KC caused this change here. The train on the right would catch a train at Fort Madison, bound for KC.....
Photo Date:  11/2/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:08:20 PM
Location:  Marceline, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6895(ES44C4) BNSF 4066(C44-9W)
Views:  108   Comments: 1
BNSF 6895
Title:  BNSF 6895
Description:  We gotta go, and get these guys to Fort Madison!
Photo Date:  11/2/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:09:08 PM
Location:  Marceline, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6895(ES44C4)
Views:  119   Comments: 1
Dynamic duo......with 2 bits.......
Title:  Dynamic duo......with 2 bits.......
Description:  Mixed pair on the Hannibal sub, with a string of 2 bay hoppers. Could be headed to Holcim at Dundee (believe they were flooded out), to resume operations. Did not have time to follow this train back up that way, but will revisit the area soon.
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 3:45:46 PM
Location:  Elsberry, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock
Locomotives:  BNSF 6907(ES44C4) UP 4113(SD70M)
Views:  555   Comments: 3
Out in the flats of St Charles Co......
Title:  Out in the flats of St Charles Co......
Description:  Two-tone worm, lead by a trio of BNSF engines, makes it way north on this overcast day.
Photo Date:  2/20/2019  Upload Date: 2/22/2019 9:14:27 AM
Location:  Saint Charles, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6925(ES44C4)
Views:  321   Comments: 1
We have a crew!
Title:  We have a crew!
Description:  The shuttle vehicle is leaving, after dropping off it's load, and soon this train will depart!
Photo Date:  2/24/2021  Upload Date: 2/25/2021 9:28:15 AM
Location:  Mitchell, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6937(ES44C4)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
BNSF 6941
Title:  BNSF 6941
Description:  A trio at West Alton MO, notching it up just a bit!
Photo Date:  6/14/2012  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 11:07:28 PM
Location:  West Alton, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6941(ES44C4)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
BNSF 6945
Title:  BNSF 6945
Description:  A stacker eases past a work crew and the old signal bridge
Photo Date:  6/26/2020  Upload Date: 2/1/2025 6:28:03 PM
Location:  New Boston, IA
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6945(ES44C4)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Wasting no time time.....
Title:  Wasting no time time.....
Description:  Manifest blasts thru Weston, now that things are open.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:02:51 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6948(ES44C4)
Views:  159   Comments: 1
BNSF 6948
Title:  BNSF 6948
Description:  Alright....another manifest, heading east!
Photo Date:  11/2/2024  Upload Date: 11/17/2024 6:05:12 PM
Location:  Mendon, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6948(ES44C4)
Views:  63   Comments: 1
Across the Noix Creek bridge....
Title:  Across the Noix Creek bridge....
Description:  I was listening for any activity on the scanner, as I waited in the area. Nothing. But then, the sound of a horn. Moved to this location to catch them crossing the creek bridge.
Photo Date:  10/15/2022  Upload Date: 10/16/2022 7:16:30 AM
Location:  Louisiana, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  RollingStock,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 611(AC44C4M) BNSF 6952(ES44C4)
Views:  427   Comments: 2
Heading for La Plata and beyond...
Title:  Heading for La Plata and beyond...
Description:  Snaking it's way toward La Plata, this intermodal heads into the sun, and some less hilly running.
Photo Date:  12/19/2015  Upload Date: 12/22/2015 3:50:54 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6959(ES44C4)
Views:  367   Comments: 1
BNSF 6963
Title:  BNSF 6963
Description:  Caught the tail end of this train after the short train ride!
Photo Date:  6/29/2024  Upload Date: 7/3/2024 1:54:14 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6963(ES44C4)
Views:  87   Comments: 1
Stacks & racks...
Title:  Stacks & racks...
Description:  A stacks & racks train makes it's way toward La Plata after passing the parked train at the crest of the hill.
Photo Date:  11/24/2017  Upload Date: 11/28/2017 6:57:42 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6967(ES44C4)
Views:  513   Comments: 4
Had been holding.....
Title:  Had been holding.....
Description:  This train was on hold at the crest of the hill, while train issues were being worked on, on the other side of the bridge.
Photo Date:  4/29/2023  Upload Date: 5/2/2023 8:03:37 PM
Location:  Sibley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6994(ES44C4)
Views:  230   Comments: 2
BNSF 6996
Title:  BNSF 6996
Description:  Trains from the other direction are now beginning to roll.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:18:04 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6996(ES44C4)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
BNSF 6998
Title:  BNSF 6998
Description:  The first of two, two bay hopper trains.
Photo Date:  9/3/2017  Upload Date: 9/16/2017 6:21:55 PM
Location:  Gibbs, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6998(ES44C4)
Views:  328   Comments: 2
Two of three pumpkins this day...
Title:  Two of three pumpkins this day...
Description:  A pumpkin duo leads a hopper train thru the high speed switch....!
Photo Date:  3/30/2024  Upload Date: 4/3/2024 6:26:15 PM
Location:  Huntsville, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7013(ES44C4)
Views:  165   Comments: 1


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