BNSF Birmingham Subdivision (DVD Video)

These trains are included in our "BNSF Birmingham Subdivision" DVD : http://www.searailfanning.com/videos/Brian/video-BNSFBirminghamSubdivision-me... A very small sampling of trains are included here for previewing purposes.

This video covers the time period of September 2001 through December 2002. BNSF's Birmingham Subdivision takes a southeasterly route out of Tennessee Yard in Memphis, Tennessee, and twists and winds over 230 miles through northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama to Thomas Yard in Birmingham, Alabama. As strange as it may sound, it's hard to believe that railfans can catch BNSF action as far south as Alabama! BNSF's main commodity on the line is coal from the Powder River basin as a huge Alabama Power facility is located at Palos, Alabama, about seven miles north of the small town of Adamsville. We will visit many locations in Mississippi and Alabama including Plantersville, Nettleton, Bigbee, Judge, Sulligent, Winfield, Carbon Hill, Townley, Jasper, Cordova, and Dora.

In addition to numerous coal trains that frequently ply its rails, the ex-Burlington Northern (nee Frisco) mainline hosts several manifest, local, unit taconite, intermodal, and doublestack trains as well. Even though the Birmingham Subdivision is BNSF's southernmost point of operations and does not see the dense traffic levels that other parts of the system do, it still can provide a varied mix of color and motive power that is sure to please most railfans! We catch everything from GP38s to SD75s still adorned in their red and silver warbonnet, yellow and blue, cascade green, or grinstein green and cream paint schemes! It's NICE to see so much predecessor power making regular appearances on the video almost seven years after the BN-ATSF merger was completed! Of course, BNSF's Heritage I and Heritage II paint schemes are represented as well.

Put on that engineer's cap and climb aboard as we start our journey at Jasper, Alabama, on a crisp September 2001 morning by catching a southbound Palos-bound coal train with an "Executive" SD70MAC up front banging over the NS diamond in Jasper, Alabama, and end our adventure on a cold December 2002 afternoon by capturing now one-of-a-kind modified SD40-2 #7890 leading northbound local manifest L631 through Jasper and the small community of Hilliard, some ten miles to the north near Townley, Alabama. We hope that you will enjoy this look at one of BNSF's least-known mainline arteries.

Digital Color and Sound
Running Time 66 Minutes
Copyright 2009 SouthEast Railfanning Video Productions/Brian Morgan

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• railroad
• videos
• BNSF
• burlington
• northern
• santa
• fe
• birmingham
• subdivision
• southeast
• railfanning

[wxyz9009]

Nice job. I've railfanned this line quite a few times. The only time I caught a train that was not led by a widecab was on New Year's Eve 2004, the first time I ever caught anything on this line. Since then it's been widecab after widecab. I'm alright with the SD70MACs, especially the ones still in the BN Executive scheme, but GEVOs get to be monotonous

[southern7002x]

Thanks! I know what you mean about GEVOs. NS and CSX run a ton of them here. It does get old very fast.

[BNSF9250]

@southern7002x its just what we have to get used to unfortantly. by the way southern7002x , i purchased this video , and i love it.

[southern7002x]

Thanks, I'm glad you like the video.

[xtremepadrefan]

@ 2:50 WOW great lashup

[southern7002x]

Thanks!

[southern7002x]

Very glad you enjoyed the video! I really used to enjoy railfanning that line.

[JgordonAmtrak1]

What an awesome vid, great bnsf action in this state & Spots, awesome horns units & trains back then, love the power & Coal trains, alot of MACs, see one of those blue & white leasers, the gmtx units ns has now!, Woah they used alot of power on those bnsf units! I love this vid, a ton of C44s Santa FE/BNSF on that stack train with great S3L! Awesome k5la on that CR EMD, this is just cool!

[TheOTTO2732]

Nice long horns!!!!!

[gtafan2006]

very rarely i see the blue and yellow warbonnet and bn green with white door sd40-2's sometimes i see the red and yellow warbonnet dash9's and some CN motive power if i had my sony webbie i would have video of em but my sister broke the thing and it wont stay charged. just saw a blue and yellow warbonnet with the santa fe still on the sides a few minutes ago. lots of different motoive power here in sioux city