{"id":19026,"date":"2017-08-03T03:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19026"},"modified":"2017-08-03T03:03:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:03:32","slug":"looking-down-on-bnsf-savanna-illinois-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-down-on-bnsf-savanna-illinois-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Down on BNSF\u2014Savanna, Illinois, July 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

A long long time ago, back in the 1990s, I\u2019d travel with Mike and Tom Danneman (and others) to the Mississippi River Valley to photograph the old Chicago, Burlington & Quincy route to the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

Among our favorite vantage points were river-side bluffs in the Mississippi Palisades State Park north of Savanna, Illinois.<\/p>\n

The line on the east bank was Burlington Northern back then. Today it is BNSF Railway (reflecting the 1995 merger between Burlington Northern and Santa Fe).<\/p>\n

On a bright afternoon in July, John Gruber and I returned to this old haunt and put ourselves in position to make a few photographs.<\/p>\n

As hoped, BNSF operated several trains, and we exposed views from the tops of the bluffs. I made these with my FujiFilm X-T1.<\/p>\n

Any favorites?<\/p>\n

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Looking timetable east toward Savanna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You can hear eastbound whistle for a crossing a mile or so before they come into view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A little glint off the river makes for nice atmosphere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Is this train carrying \u00a0oil or ethanol? From this height I wasn’t sure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Like many trains in the West, this unit tank train had a DPU at the back. (Distributed power unit, railroad lingo for a radio-controlled remotely operated locomotive).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A westward intermodal train races up-river toward the Twin Cities from Chicago. I remember when seeing a double stack train was a BIG deal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Look an old fashioned car load train!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A long long time ago, back in the 1990s, I\u2019d travel with Mike and Tom Danneman (and others) to the Mississippi River Valley to photograph the old Chicago, Burlington & Quincy route to the Twin Cities. Among our favorite vantage points were river-side bluffs in the Mississippi Palisades State Park north of Savanna, Illinois. The … Continue reading Looking Down on BNSF\u2014Savanna, Illinois, July 2017.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[4294,4295,820,484,2408],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BNSF_wb_Stack_train-Savanna_IL_DSCF7806.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4WS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19029,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions\/19029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}