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Nostalgia & History > Burlington Northern VS Mother NatureDate: 07/20/18 10:19 Burlington Northern VS Mother Nature Author: GBW309 We all know that in life, it is a constant battle to preserve infrastructure from the ravages of nature. Burlington Northern had its own method of keeping brush and weeds under control. Every spring they would run a spray train and basically kill anything within 50 feet of the rail. We were told by maintenance that it was Paraquat. The result was a rather homely looking right of way as evidenced by this image. This is Burlington Northern train 3 which departed Chicago early in the afternoon, seven days a week. In the eighties, if you were out shooting pictures around Savanna, Ill, you were guaranteed four westbound trains, with perfect lighting, in the late afternoon. BN would send #3 and #13 out of Cicero and the Milwaukee Road would send #226 and #228 westbound out of Bensenville. They would all converge around Savanna, within a couple of hours, in the early evening. In those years, the preferred power for BN was a pair of SD40-2's and a GE B30-7A ( as we called it, two 40's and a B)
BN train 3 approaching the ESS at Burke (east of Savanna, Illinois) May 1988 Thanks for looking. Dave Date: 07/20/18 10:28 Re: Burlington Northern VS Mother Nature Author: bluesboyst Right of way looks good to me.....get rid of those weeds....do they still do this today or did the tree huggers piss and moan about it?
Date: 07/20/18 10:50 Re: Burlington Northern VS Mother Nature Author: davebb71 summer of 1988 = no rain everywhere = drought :-( dave, out.
Date: 07/20/18 13:06 Re: Burlington Northern VS Mother Nature Author: retcsxcfm bluesboyst Wrote:
....get rid of those > weeds....do they still do this today or did the I doubt it.Because they kept the R/W clear out to the pole line.They no longer have pole lines. Most places I have been/seen the bushes rub the cars or locomotives. There are places on CSX Florida main that all you see are trees. Uncle Joe Seffner,Fl. |