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Marty Bernard
posted two photos with the comment: "Roger Puta was in Brush, Colorado in January 1985 and photographed the Burlington Northern Depot -- another basic CB&Q style depot."
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BNSF not only still uses the depot as an office building, they do a good job of maintaining it. Some of the CSX depots I have seen are a disgrace to the company. Judging from the dishes on the microwave tower, BNSF still uses it. I thought most of the microwave frequencies had been given to the cell phone companies.
These two locomotives are old because they have a "standard cab" instead of a widebody cab. And they still have old paint schemes: BN and "
swish H1." (A true railfan would tell you which GP models these were.)
It doesn't look like the grain elevator is rail served. I wonder what kind of local industry exists around here that they would have a couple of locomotives and a railyard here. Note that the locomotives are also in this satellite view. Since I already had Google Earth fired up, I checked how frequently locomotives appear by the elevator. Locomotives appear in the Sep 2023 and Feb 2021 views, but neither locomotive was green in 2021. All the images before 2021 back to 2005 don't have any locos by the elevator.
Note in the above satellite image that BNSF has two routes leaving town towards the east. I presumed that one of them goes East to Chicago. I checked out where the other one went. The other goes North to Northern Pacific.
This image shows how dependent the viability of that grain elevator is on pivot irrigation.
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