FURX 7280 With A BNSF SD9 High Nose!!!!!! Must See!!

Copyright BNSF2184.

FURX 7280, BNSF 6701, FURX 7211, and BNSF 1750 pull a manifest train off of the Barstow sub and down the Quincy Main at Galesburg, IL on June 28, 2008 I was with Brandon Smith (TPWRAILFAN) when I shot this.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• train
• BNSF
• SD40-2
• FURX
• SD9
• Galesburg
• Railroad
• Days
• Barstow
• sub

[TrollKing2009]

whats a high nose for?

[BNSF2184]

dont know

[atsf3751fan]

At 1:00 in, the bus for the rail yard tours was leaving; I was on it, and I tried to grab a few pictures of this unit.

[BNSF2184]

Im too afraid to take them tours anymore in fear of missing something good.

[cbehr91]

That red is either rust or Burlington Route paint coming through.

[BNSF2184]

most likely rust.

[mafarnz]

When hood units originally were developed in the 1950's, units had a high nose was to protect the crews in the even of a grade crossing accident. Eventually, the need for better forward visibility, and the advent for better and safer glass, caused the fall of the high nose units.

[futureengineer100]

Nice catch but where was this?

[TrainTrackTrav]

Awesome dude! Blessings!

[htc6600]

Dash-2's and an SD9! Amazing. 

[BNSFandSP]

@TrollKing2009 I believe that the high hood is to make running LHF as good (almost) as SHF operation, visability wise, but other that that, I don't know. Maybe it's for a reason to operate LHF for extra crew saftey.

[BNSF9250]

u and all the other people that have filmed galesburg should come to gethere and make a galesburg in the good old days video

[trainamtrakcsx]

oh ok

[TPWEMDRAILFAN]

its not in view its by the station ticket office behind the camera

[adfgfds]

@TrollKing2009

The high nose is for the steam generator.

[justkiddin08]

Great video.

[trainamtrakcsx]

i didnt see a bus can tell me where 2 look