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By:Christopher Trott
Dates:4/9/2005 - 5/30/2005
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BNSF 2858
Title:  BNSF 2858
Description:  Radio Control Equipped unit used at the TXi Railport Facility just north of Venus during the week. BNSF Midlothian Sub MP19
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:26:06 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 2858(GP39-2)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
BNSF 3133
Title:  BNSF 3133
Description:  The lettering is fading rapidly (and the bad lighting didn't help much to show it) on this old GP50. Part of the 4-units used to switch the TXi Railport.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:26:52 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 3133(GP50)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
BNSF 3151
Title:  BNSF 3151
Description:  Part of the 2 units found switching the TXi Cement Plant and TXi Chaparral Steel mainline yard a few miles north. Resting here at Venus for the weekend with BNSF 3185 and a Scrap Gon.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:27:34 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 3151(GP50)
Views:  591   Comments: 0
BNSF 3169
Title:  BNSF 3169
Description:  Another old GP50 working at the TXi Railport during the week.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:27:53 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 3169(GP50)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
BNSF 3185
Title:  BNSF 3185
Description:  Heading up the TXi Mainline Yard switchers, this unit is worked very hard during the week moving scrap gons, cement hoppers, and heavy flats.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:28:14 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 3185(GP50)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
BNSF 3192
Title:  BNSF 3192
Description:  Not the best angle, but here you can see some of the modifications done to BNSF 3192 over the years while it's been in service with the Santa Fe and now the BNSF.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:28:34 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  BNSF 3192(GP50)
Views:  389   Comments: 1
SP 347
Title:  SP 347
Description:  This unit appears to have been patched and then UN-patched as the plate of steel shows over the patching. Idling on the siding for trains that will begin moving again next week.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:29:01 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  SP 347(AC44CW)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
UP 6773
Title:  UP 6773
Description:  Union Pacific's helper station sits idle with UP 6773 as the #2 unit in the lash up. All 4 units were idling, unlike the BNSF units located just south of these.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:29:22 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  UP 6773(AC44CW)
Views:  349   Comments: 2
UP 7167
Title:  UP 7167
Description:  Leading the group, UP 7167's conductor side is shaded in the afternoon sun while it idles, waiting for the next assignment.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:29:44 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  UP 7167(AC44CW)
Views:  330   Comments: 0
UP 8118
Title:  UP 8118
Description:  One of the few SD90MACs delivered to UP and now one of the few 4400 HP units that they still have on roster, it now sits idle on the track waiting for a train to come that needs a little help making it down the tracks.
Photo Date:  4/9/2005  Upload Date: 5/22/2005 10:30:04 PM
Location:  Venus, TX
Author:  Christopher Trott
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Locomotives:  UP 8118(SD9043MAC)
Views:  358   Comments: 0


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