Burlington Northern on Montana Rail Link: 2005-2007

While the BN might be gone & MRL might operate the line across the southern end of Montana, you can still catch glimpses of what BN might still be doing today. Perhaps not so much anymore, but up until 2008 it was pretty easy to find older BNSF power in BN paint leading trains to/from Spokane on MRL. Looking back at this footage, the summer of 2006 found many coal trains powered with SD70MAC leaders while 2007 saw the coal trains with a "last hurrah" of sorts for the SD60M before they were renumbered & largely sidelined in 2008. At times, you would not know BN ever went away.

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• BN
• Burlington Northern Railroad
• BNSF
• MRL
• Montana Rail Link
• SD60M
• SD70MAC

[donsgotmoney]

At that tunnel at 7:30, those operators must have been dying in that cab with all that soot coming in, it certainly was not exiting the tunnel,

[gwaithwyr]

Beautiful music!  And I like the short clips. Many thanks.

[nssd70m2]

By far the coolest sounding horn at 10:56.

[BNSF9250]

@TRAVAM91 same here. born in 1993. and would see some of these SD70MAcs and -2s at the park in parkville.

[TRAVAM91]

i havent seen lashups like these since i was a kid... all i see out there now are BNSF ES44AC`s and C44-9W`s... miss the old days when EMD ruled, great video!

[nssd70m2]

I would die to see all of those 60M's leading coal trains..

[bnrails]

Good video, but it would be nice to see the whole train and not only the locomotives.

[BNSF9250]

with the end of this video , ends an era. all of these shots are either imposible or highley unlikely. BNSF uses GEVOS SD70MACS and ACEs in their coal serivce. creme macs no longer have nose logos . BN SD60MS are renumbered. SD40-2s are either sold scraped or in yard service and renumbered. this is the end of an era many railfans young and old wish they could have railfaned.

[axxsmith]

Very nice Kevin!

[mafarnz]

Wow, back when the 70MAC's still looked good! Great video.