BNSF 108 Mixed Freight Train Roll-By (PHOTO INTENCE, BEWARE)

[Trucklover]

Hi Guys,

I spent the better part of 6 hours (3 hours last night, 3 hours this morning) shooting a HUGE BNSF Mixed Freight Train. On point is a BNSF SD70MAC #9955, followed by BNSF SD70MAC #9929, then BNSF SD75I #8277, and then BNSF SD70MAC #9897. There are 108 mixed Freight Cars after the 4 engines, then a BNSF AC4400CW #5624 and lastly a BNSF SD70MAC #9482.

**BEWARE, THIS PAGE IS EXTREMELY PHOTO INTENSE AND HAS 112 PICTURES TO LOAD, IT WILL TAKE A WHILE**

Without Further ado, here is the roll-by:

[Herc Driver]

Nice pictures of some good looking equipment. (I like the backhoe diggin'...nice touch!)

[upnick]

Excellent roll past Josh see the locos still need weathering though

[Trucklover]

Herc and Nick, thanks for the comments

It was really fun doing this, but boy was it a repetitive thing to do. The module is only 5 feet long, so i would take a few cars out of there boxes, set them on the tracks, couple them and go through the line, removing the ones that had already been photographed and setting them aside. I also had to keep up on the traffic and "moving vehicles" which had to be moved a believable distance, alot of repositioning with both the train and the vehicles for each frame, checking of the camera to make sure it looked decent..... When i would get done with the set of train cars, i would turn the camera off (which was on a tri-pod by the way) and pack up the cars that had been shot, then set them aside and get some new cars.....

I tried to mix it up and not have to much of the same freight together, since most mixed freight trains dont have all the same type of cars bunched up and all together lol

Like i said, this took me the better part of 6 hours to do lol and is roughly 70% of my rolling stock roster in this one train lol


One of the guys over on AMR forum made me GIF mini-clip of the train in action to better see the movement of the traffic and train. But beware its 10MB and may take a minute to load, but its pretty neat when you see it

[Sarge]

That's just plain AWESOME josh

[Trucklover]

That's just plain AWESOME josh

Thanks Jim

It was certainly fun to do, but boy it took FOREVER. It might be a little while until i can do another one of these.... It might not be so bad if i had a longer track to build up a little longer train on and then roll it through up till the last car, then put all those away, and break out some new ones and built up another line, but im working with about 3-4' of track most of the time (its a 5' module, but it depends on where im taking the pics on the module....) lol

thanks again guys, im glad everyone enjoyed it

[Beamish]

I like the GIF image. That is quite neat especially when the Case excavator is digging along the line. Great job.