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Illinois Central 6071 at Kent

Illinois Central 6071 on a northbound BNSF manifest freight, waits for the Seattle Sounder at Willis Street in Kent, Washington, on Oct. 30, 2005.

IC 6071 is a remanufactured EMD SD40-2R and was originally built as the protoype SD40 on an SD35 frame as EMDX 434. It then went to Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GMO 950, then to Illinois Central Gulf ICG 6071 and finally to IC 6071.

Locomotive data: Illinois Central Photo Album.

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BNSF 523 (B40-8W) at Kent

BNSF 523 on a northbound manifest freight, waits at Willis Street in Kent, Washington, on Oct. 30, 2005.

BNSF 523 is a GE B40-8W (#46427) built in Oct. 1990 for Santa Fe as ATSF 523.

Locomotive data: BNSF 2006 Locomotive Review and Diagrams, by Robert Del Grosso, Great Northern Pacific Publications.

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