Photo ID: 108146 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 935 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF In the main classification yard in Alliance, BNSF has about 500 units stored, most of which are C44-9Ws or ES44ACs (CitiRail leasors). Tack on another 100 or so units, most of which are SD70MACs, on one of the tracks on the engine maintenance facility side of the yard. This string of units brings the total number stored in Gillette, WY, Edgemont, SD, and Alliance, NE to somewhere around 1,300! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108145 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 922 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A sole BNSF SD40-2 makes a reverse move in the yard at Alliance to pick up a few cars for switching on the far side of the yard. A manifest sits on one of the yard tracks, ready to depart, just waiting on a crew. A ton of surplus units also sit in storage throughout the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108144 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 914 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While BNSF does have a fairly large classification yard in Alliance, NE, it has a huge locomotive maintenance facility here. Most, if not all, of the major locomotive maintenance items required on engines in the mid-west are handled here in Alliance. In the days of Burlington Northern, this was the largest engine maintenance facility on the railroad. A good chunk of BNs units were maintained here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108143 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 933 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX After finding about 500 units stored in Gillette, WY and another 200 units stored in Edgemont, SD, an additional 500 or so units are currently being stored in Alliance Yard in Alliance, NE. About 300 of the units are visible in in this long lens shot. Nearly all (if not all) of the CitiRail leasor ES44ACs are currently here in Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108142 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 994 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX You may remember that a lot of gray and blue CitiRail leasor units showed up on BNSF a few years ago, when BNSF was encoutering a power shortage. Well, unfortunately, due to the currently economy, BNSF now has the opposite problem! A major surplus in power. Most of the Citirail units are currently being stored on a single, seemingly endless track in the Alliance Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108141 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 921 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF has a pretty substantial yard in Alliance. This dates back to the Burlington Northern days, when this was one of BNs largest midwest yards. Due to a downturn in the economy, the yard is actually not all that full. Many of the yard tracks either have empty hoppers or power stored in them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108121 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 955 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF If you've ever heard the term "Pink-bonnet" to describe a Warbonnet-painted engine, here is a good example! It has been so long since these units were painted, many of them have faded to the point that the red is definitely now a pink color. BNSF 699 is one such unit, stored in the middle of Edgemont Yard in South Dakota. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108120 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 923 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Three strings of stored units extend to the far end of the yard in Edgemont, SD. A downturn in the economy, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic started, has resulted a major decrease in power needs for Class 1 railroads. Hopefully the economy will have a swift recovery and many, if not all, of these units can be placed back in service. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108119 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 985 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This Warbonnet looks to be in mighty fine shape as it sits in the yard in Edgemont, SD in storage. Note that the exhaust stack has been "capped", indicating a long term storage. This is a C44-9W, although these units are often referred to as Dash 9-44CWs. You can even note this designation painted on the frame! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108118 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Edgemont Yard Edgemont, SD 1029 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF After discovering around 500 units stored in Donkey Creek Yard in Gillette, WY, I discovered that another 200 or so units are being stored in the yard in Edgemont, SD! Whereas a lot of the stored units in Gillette were SD70MACs, a majority of the ones in Edgemont are C44-9Ws. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108115 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 898 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF To help illustrate how (relatively) slow things are for the railroads right now, only of these yard tracks has something on it that is actually being used at the moment! The cars to the left are all in storage. The engines to the right are also all in storage. The hoppers to the left of the power are actually part of a current train that is waiting for a recrew to depart the yard for the Powder River Basin to load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108114 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 1043 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While SD70MACs and C44-9Ws dominate the stored power in Donkey Creek yard, there are a few other units that can be found here. Such is the case for BNSF 2324, a GP38-2, buried in the middle of a string of units. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108113 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 969 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF This telephoto shot helps bring in to perspective just how many units BNSF currently has stored in Donkey Creek Yard. There are about 100 units on each of five different yard tracks. You can clearly see the vast numbers of Grinstein SD70MACs in storage here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108112 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 948 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF There were quite a few C44-9Ws in storage in Donkey Creek Yard in Gillette, WY at the time of this photo. Those included a smattering of Warbonnets, or "Pink-bonnets", as some refer to the now-faded classic ATSF scheme. BNSF 649 is one such example, sitting at the head of a string of 100+ units stored on one of the yard tracks. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108111 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, May 30, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Donkey Creek Yard Gillette, WY 1040 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Got Power? With the decline in coal and downturn in the economy thanks to COVID-19, a lot of power is now in storage on Class 1 railroads. Case-in-point is Donkey Creek Yard. BNSF has roughly 500 units stored here. Mostly SD70MACs and C44-9Ws, but some others thrown in to the mix as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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