Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF Test Train to Raton

This morning, I went down to the BNSF yard in Topeka and found the D TOPLAJ1 pulling out of town with a pair of EMD P4's, a pair of Tier IV's and the newly-renovated test cars, "Canyon Diablo and Kootenai River."

This train is headed west for La Junta, CO and testing along Raton Pass.

The consist was as follows:

BNSF 7323
BNSF 3869
EMDX 1603
BNSF 8504
BNSF 8510
BNSF 1604
BNSF 83
BNSF 82

Thanks for looking,
- Jeff Carlson

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PTC Testing ?

When I rode train 4 two weeks ago, Road Forman, said that PTC was about ready to be placed into service.

Nice shots of a pretty amazing lash-up!

Thanks!

- Jeff

exhaustED Wrote:
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> Nice shots of a pretty amazing lash-up!

Looks like they're testing the T4P4's? Sweet lashup nonetheless

BNSF 7323 West arrived La Junta, Colorado, after dark September 24, 2017. Will proceed West September 25, 2017 towards Trinidad, CO. Rain & clouds in southern Colorado Monday morning.

Interesting catch in picture 1: Part of the BNSF modern fire train in the back ground.

By "modern fire train," I'm assuming you're making some sort of joke about the LNG equipment? Yeah, that stuff is back there.

- Jeff Carlson

jst3751 Wrote:
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> Interesting catch in picture 1: Part of the BNSF
> modern fire train in the back ground.

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