Western Railroad Discussion > A Green Three-Eyed Monster Comes This Way

Just caught the Lind Turn leaving Cheney, WA late this afternoon. For once it had more than just handful of cars. The TTZX centerbeams are going to storage at Lind reportedly.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

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Nice catch Ted! I didn't get to see it.

Larry

LOL! I love your thread title! I thought
you had photographed a "triclops", and I was
right. The BNSF 1411 looks really good in
your photo. A sorta "whiteface" (bot not
really) BN in beautiful Cascade Green. And
she is 67 years old! Really! She was built
as a GP 7 in Sept. of 1950 for the GN as the
GN 611 -- another 611! The N&W 611 is 4 months
older than this locomotive

The BNSF was rebuilt as some time as a GP 10.
Still she soldiers on -- a first-generation
diesel still out and about, doing what she was
built to do. (I wonder how
much of the original 1950 locomotive is left?
The frame and trucks? Anything else?)

Thanks, again, for this neat photo.

(I love looking up the history of the various
interesting locomotives people post pictures
of here on TO. "rrpicturearchives.net" is
my source.)

Haven't seen a Triclops in person in years. I hated the fact the emergency lever was in the conductor desk though... I may never see one again, and that was in NM!

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Thankfully many of these old BN EMD motors are still assigned to various local job around the Pacific Northwest. Such a welcome break from the orange consists that are so commonplace these days.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Margaret_SP_fan Wrote:
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.... And
> she is 67 years old! Really! She was built
> as a GP 7 in Sept. of 1950 for the GN as the
> GN 611 -- another 611! The N&W 611 is 4 months
> older than this locomotive
>
> The BNSF was rebuilt as some time as a GP 10.
> Still she soldiers on -- a first-generation
> diesel still out and about, doing what she was
> built to do. (I wonder how
> much of the original 1950 locomotive is left?
> The frame and trucks? Anything else?)

That was another BNSF 1411 that was sold to the Northern Lines Railway. This BNSF 1411 is a SD60M built for the BN in 1990. That makes it 27 years old and unrebuilt. The trailing unit, SD40-2 BNSF 1979, was built as BN 7158 in 1979. It's 38 years old now. BTW, thanks for the appreciative remarks.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/17 03:01 by funnelfan.

Thanks, Ted, for the correction! I obviously
had no idea there were TWO BNSF 1411s! Thanks
for the correct info!

And I have not seen any recent photos of any
"triclops" locomotives for a long time, to
come to think of it.

Nice shot!!

Nice to see the BN 9200's in action too.