Here is a view of the shorthand, rear of BN 1540, coupled to a vintage tank car used in maintenance service to carry water. They are enjoying light snow at the former GN Belknap Yard in Superior t... (more)
BN 1540, a former GN GP7 that made it to the merger in its original colors, hangs out in light snow at Belknap Yard in Superior, WI. The former GN yard was an important terminal for BN and is stil... (more)
BN 1540, a former Great Northern GP7 drags a cut of grain boxes through the Minnesota draw bridge into Rice's Point, Duluth, MN from Superior, WI. This bridge was Northern Pacific's, and used by B... (more)
About 545 AM, BN 1540 a former GN GP7 drags a transfer from Superior, WI across the Wisconsin draw on its way into Duluth, MN. This shot was obtained as a result of camping out the previous evenin... (more)
Former GN GP7, BN 1540 idles the night away at Superior, WI alongside a former GN F7A and X-NP passenger B unit. The Geep will handle a transfer over to Duluth about 530 am the next morning.
An original scheme former GN GP7 heads a transfer job across the former Northern Pacific bridge across St. Louis Bay and into Rice Point Yard. The train is about to enter the Minnesota Draw, havin... (more)