BNSF 681 east in bright ATSF colors

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Flavio Simoes	General	Following excerpt was taken from the Billings Gazette online. - ARMINTO 12/7/2001 ? A Burlington Northern and Santa Fe engineer was killed when his train struck an idle train about 60 miles west of Casper. The conductor sustained some cuts in the crash Friday night but was otherwise unhurt, according to Gus Melonas, a BNSF spokesman in Seattle. Three locomotives and the first six cars derailed from the moving train, which was hauling plastic from Fort Worth, Texas, to Laurel, Mont. A seventh car partially derailed. No one was aboard the idle train when the collision derailed its two lead locomotives. The grain filled train was bound from Longview Junction, Wash., to Omaha, Neb. The engineer killed was Mike Hoover, 48, a 29 year BNSF employee. Hoover and the conductor, whose identity was not available, were based out of Casper. The train had no other crew. Melonas said Saturday morning that the train was moving at 47 mph when the head-on collision occurred at 6:25 p.m. ?It appears t	1/21/2020 7:25:02 PM

Flavio Simoes	General	http://www.trainweb.org/brettrw/derail/bnsf/arminto/arminto7.html	1/21/2020 7:25:31 PM

Flavio Simoes	General	This unit suffered a serious accident in 2001 along with BNSF 4882 (C44-9W) BNSF 7938, BNSF 7829 and BNSF 6329 Unfortunately the driver died in that accident	1/21/2020 7:28:24 PM

BNSF 681 east in bright ATSF colors
a really blessed catch is the BNSF681 Red and Silver still shiny as new!!! notice the number is a smaller font. peculiar. i'd like to know when this was painted.
Date: 1/25/2006	Location: Emporia, KS Map	Views: 867	Collection Of: Eric Burris
Locomotives: BNSF 681(C44-9W)			Author: Eric Burris

Picture Categories: Roster,Action		This picture is part of album: Emporia KS area 2006 pt1

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