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Train Recognition Guide Super High Speed Main > North America Gallery Visions 1 > BNSF Roster Page BNSF Stack Trains Norfolk Southern Roster Union Pacific Roster European Countries Austria Belgium Croatia Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom	Welcome to BNSF Locomotives Roster Page! BNSF has thousands of diesels. Referenced on this page will be a few hundred of the various types. A little later there is a good chance you will find just what you are looking for. For now we have also preserved the old BNSF roster page...		Created for 4rail.net by Ilkka Siissalo, Gerard J. Putz, Nick Slocombe and John McKey. Pictures by Ilkka Siissalo, Nick Slocombe, Gerard J. Putz and John McKey.


	New kind of bogies tried for the BNSF AC44C4 work horses in Southwest, 4 powered axles doing the work of 6!	C44-9W: 729 * 737 * 769 * 4081 * 4126 * 4359 * 4997 * 5113 * ES44AC: 5876 * ES44C4: 6619 * ES44DC: 7777 * GP35u: 2645 * GP39M: 2810 * SD40-2: 6832 *




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BNSF C44-9W number 729 leading a freight in the Nortwestern U.S.A.

BNSF war bonnet (red-yellow-silver) colored C44-9W is leading a freight through the forests in the Pacific Northwest.

Picture by Hannu Peltola.

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BNSF C44-9W 737 in Bakersfield, California
	A well preserved Warbonnet painted BNSF C44-9W number 737 is trailing an empty west bound stack train just east of Barstow. The serial number for the unit is 50020. Picture by John McKey.

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BNSF C44-9W 769 in Bakersfield, California

Another well preserved Warbonnet painted BNSF C44-9W number 769 leading the stack train somewhere in the east side of the California Valley. Serial Number 50002.

Picture by John McKey.

BNSF C44-9W number 769 in warbonnet paint in the California central valley

The same unit seen from the side of the longer hood.

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BNSF GP35u 2645 in Bakersfield, California
	A Santa Fe colored BNSF GP35u is part of the heavy manifest over Tehachapi to Barstow. Here waiting for the green light in Bakekerfield. Picture by John McKey.

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BNSF GP39M 2810 in Bakersfield, California
	A BNSF colored GP30 bodied GP39M number 2810 is part of the consist to help take the manifest over the Tehachapi mountains. Pictures by John McKey.

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BNSF C44-9W 4081 in Bakersfield, California
	A Heritage 2 painted BNSF C44-9W number 4081 offering extra horse power for the hopper train over Tehachapi to Barstow. Here seen in Bakersfield. Serial Number is 54265. Pictures by John McKey.

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BNSF C44-9W 4126 in Bakersfield, California
	A Heritage 2 painted BNSF C44-9W number 4126 leads the empty train of well cars to Barstow with a warbonnet sister 737 trailing. There is a Mac Donalds with converted old railroad cars at this place and it seems like the stack trains both ways are frequent. A perfect spot for a railfan to fill the stomach. Pictures by John McKey.

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BNSF C44-9W 4359 in Seattle, Washington
	A view to the nose of the Heritage 2 painted BNSF C44-9W number 4359 in Seattle Washington. Picture by Ilkka Siissalo.

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BNSF C44-9W 4997 in Bakersfield, California
	C44-9W number 4997 is leading a looong manifest and waiting for the permission to start climbing the Tehachapis from the Bakersfield. Pictures by John McKey.

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BNSF C44-9W 5113 in Bakersfield, California
	C44-9W number 5113 is providing here additional horseporwer to take a heavy manifest over the Tehachapi mountains and desert to Barstow. Pictures by John McKey.

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BNSF ES44AC number 5876 leading an executive train in Midwest

The BNSF ES44AC number 5876 is leading an executive train in the Midwest.

Picture by Hannu Peltola.

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BNSF Trying New Kind of Bogies under ES44C4s in 2010

BNSF is trying a totally new concept on a couple of dozen of it's newest work horses, the General Electric built ES44C4's. The C4 stands for arrangement, where in each bogie the middle axle is supplied without the motor and the outside wheels are motored. This should enable the same power for the unit without sacrificing the precious kilonewtons needed to move the train as the true six ES44AC with six powered axles. Below the unit seen form the side and further down the closeup of the bogie, showing clearly the device to raise the axle when it's not needed.

BNSF stack train lead by a ES44C4 number 6619 C44-9W number 5141 and BNSF ES44 number 7813 climbing a slope uphill, Southwest U.S.A.

BNSF ES44C4 number 6619 bogie details, U.S.A.

When the middle axle is raised this makes the unit effectively four axled, going back to the period twenty years ago when new geeps appeared from the assembly line. Or even further back when the six axled diesels had only the outside wheels on the bogie powered. With the come back BNSF is assuming it will save costs, less moving parts and less money spent, quite simple actually. Below the new unit on the tip of the hot shot double stack train. Alll pictures by Gerry Putz.

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BNSF SD40-2 6832 in Bakersfield, California
	The now rare type SD40-2 number 6832 is waiting for new assignments in Bakersfiel, California with a Santa Fe colored sister loco. Picture by John McKey.

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BNSF ES44DC number 7777 in the Southwestern U.S.A.

BNSF ES44DC number 7777 is leading a mixed freight with 2 other sisters assisting. This looks like the eastern end of Barstow, but is it?

Picture by Gerry Putz.

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