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B Campbell's Collection
 
12/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: BNSF Railway
Model:EMD GP39-2Built As:ATSF 3684 (GP39-2)
Serial Number:786224-2Order No:786224
Frame Number:786224-2Built:5/1979
Notes:Ex-ATSF
Other locos with this serial:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2) ATSF 3684(GP39-2)
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BNSF 2948 and BNSF 2959
Title:  BNSF 2948 and BNSF 2959
Description:  BNSF 2948 and BNSF 2959 wait patiently along the back-up power siding of Vancouver Amtrak Station guarding the bridge over the Columbia River.
Photo Date:  7/11/2009  Upload Date: 7/21/2014 1:51:35 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2948(GP39-2) BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
AMTK 465
Title:  AMTK 465
Description:  AMTK 465 completes a double meet and pass of a short BNSF 2959 Lake Shore Ave cut (in the distance to the north, just below the Fruit Valley over-pass) and a BNSF 4008 northbound grain-train on the shared mainline with the shorty ahead. (The meet later confirmed with BNSF 7261 & BNSF 2959 on the other side of the over-pass slipping into the Amtraks lane.)
Photo Date:  1/11/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:44:24 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 465(F59PHI) BNSF 2959(GP39-2) BNSF 4008(C44-9W)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959
Title:  BNSF 2959
Description:  BNSF 2959 prepares to complete the meet and pass BNSF 4008, the local switcher having slid all the way over to the passing lane next to the two mains, just recently vacating the main BNSF 4008 prepares to charge up, lights coming up & kicking it up several notches.
Photo Date:  1/11/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:28:10 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4008(C44-9W) BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
BNSF 4008
Title:  BNSF 4008
Description:  BNSF 4008 powers a grain train north with BNSF 2959 local disappearing into the background.
Photo Date:  1/11/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:26:49 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4008(C44-9W) BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959
Title:  BNSF 2959
Description:  Remote control engive BNSF 2959 idling just south of the Fourth Plain over-pass in Vancouver, WA.
Photo Date:  2/5/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 6:30:09 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
UP 5677 - BNSF 2959
Title:  UP 5677 - BNSF 2959
Description:  UP 5677 slipping up to onto the main line headed south into the station area through the southern throat of the BNSF sort/holding yard in Vancouver, WA. BNSF 2959 working the yard with a cut of center beam cars.
Photo Date:  2/5/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 1:42:21 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5677(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959 - BNSF 2359 - BNSF 2078
Title:  BNSF 2959 - BNSF 2359 - BNSF 2078
Description:  BNSF 2959 - BNSF 2359 - BNSF 2078 under morning sun and clear blue skies (except for a little pollution haze) - the idled Portland container docks visible in the distant background after the Hanjin pullout.
Photo Date:  4/16/2015  Upload Date: 5/13/2015 6:17:40 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2) BNSF 2359(GP38-2) BNSF 2078(GP38-2)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
UP 7645, BNSF 2959
Title:  UP 7645, BNSF 2959
Description:  UP 7645 with double-stack coming out of the fog into Vancouver Center while BNSF 2959 shuffles around the corner of the old yard ducking under Mill Plain over-pass. (And if I ever put in a snarl like this, nobody would ever believe it to be prototypical.)
Photo Date:  12/28/2015  Upload Date: 1/8/2016 1:34:31 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  UP 7645(AC45CCTE) BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959, BNSF 2236 - BNSF 1932, BNSF 9276 - pole - CSX 3347 - BNSF 7321 - BNSF 4301
Title:  BNSF 2959, BNSF 2236 - BNSF 1932, BNSF 9276 - pole - CSX 3347 - BNSF 7321 - BNSF 4301
Description:  BNSF 2959, BNSF 2236 - BNSF 1932, BNSF 9276 - BNSF 7423 (hidden in curve/pole) - CSX 3347 - BNSF 7321 - BNSF 4301 (in western power corral holding lane, north lane empty), the middle two unit pair mentioned on deck for the inspection pit shed, and the first in our introduction on a holding stub - with the insidious freight by-pass visible rounding along the lower right of the frame and circling between the viewing area to the right distance and running all along the yard up to the north end where itll join back into the mains at the Lake Shore / Fruit Valley Road over-pass.
Photo Date:  2/6/2016  Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:35:39 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2) BNSF 2236(GP38) BNSF 1932(SD40-2) BNSF 9276(SD70ACe) BNSF 7321(ES44DC) BNSF 4301(C44-9W)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959
Title:  BNSF 2959
Description:  BNSF 2959 to the south side of the 39th Street over-pass in the middle Vancouver Center sort yard and mini-hump area proving theres not enough activity to the north as the UP double-stack disappears around the bend and Im just tracking down all the rumbles of motive power.
Photo Date:  5/17/2016  Upload Date: 6/24/2016 4:44:18 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  161   Comments: 0
BNSF 6229 - BNSF 6739, BNSF 2959, UP 7290
Title:  BNSF 6229 - BNSF 6739, BNSF 2959, UP 7290
Description:  BNSF 6229 - BNSF 6739 on by-pass (crossing the still warm UP northbound tracks), BNSF 2959 pulling into the northern ladder sort yard, while UP 7290 continues holding in the passing lane.
Photo Date:  5/17/2016  Upload Date: 6/24/2016 4:46:16 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6229(ES44AC) BNSF 2959(GP39-2) UP 7290(AC44CW)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
BNSF 2959, CSX 861 and BNSF 2088
Title:  BNSF 2959, CSX 861 and BNSF 2088
Description:  BNSF 2959 dropping down to the yard run-around/by-pass moving between the middle and north yard with CSX 861 and BNSF 2088 back on the turn-table spur in an interesting mixture of color at Vancouver Center on this sunny day of May.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 6/24/2016 8:12:05 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2) CSX 861(ES44AC-H) BNSF 2088(GP38-2)
Views:  299   Comments: 1
BNSF 2959
Title:  BNSF 2959
Description:  BNSF 2959 coming up along the middle yard of Vancouver Center approaching the 39th Street over-pass... and honestly, the picture was because of the tiered warehouses in the background which just looked sort of neat (in the sun).
Photo Date:  8/5/2016  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 7:39:34 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2959(GP39-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 1
UP 9011-UP 8784-UP 8876-UP 2755-BNSF 2959
Title:  UP 9011-UP 8784-UP 8876-UP 2755-BNSF 2959
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/14/2017  Upload Date: 5/30/2017 1:34:15 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  B Campbell
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9011(SD70AH) UP 8784(SD70ACe) BNSF 2959(GP39-2) UP 8876(SD70AH) UP 2755(ES44AC-H)
Views:  560   Comments: 0


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