Fast Freights

M.P. 342.11 - Dalhart Subdivision Traffic on this line usually consists of empty coal trains destined from Texas to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. It makes up a portion of the northbound route of BNSF's directional lines between Amarillo and Pueblo, Colorado. In this video you are in for a treat! Not only will you see a high-speed Q-Train on this line, normally reserved for empty coal trains, but the fourth unit in the consist is a brand new ET44ACH - BNSF 3659. The power passes the camera very fast, so be sure to stay to the end of the video for the slow-motion pass of the locomotives.

Red River Valley Subdivision Traffic on this line can be anything from work trains to high-speed intermodal. In this video you are in for a treat! The first BNSF train is all empties consisting of mostly well-cars. The train is returning the empty well-cars to the west coast, and there are a lot of them as the train is very long. The second BNSF train is Q ALTPTL6 16A, Alliance TX to Portland OR. The consist has NINE BNSF power units on the point, six of which are brand new ES44C4 and ET44C4. After the high-speed run by, we see the Q ALTPTL6 16A once more in Amarillo's North Yard as it slowly drifts through the yard, allowing a less hurried look at the new power.

Fast Freights 8 was shot on the Dalhart Subdivision at M.P. 342.11 just northwest of Amarillo Texas. BNSF Mixed Freight and UP Unit Grain blast out of Amarillo on the Dalhart Subdivision. This portion of the line is directional for westbound trains only. The weather was perfect for a Fall evening. Tarantula spiders are migrating this time of year and one of them walks right by one of our cameramen while he was waiting on the next train.

This is the first video of our Fast Freights series. Watch BNSF Fast Freight Trains on the Transcon in South Amarillo!

Fourteen miles south of Amarillo on the BNSF Transcon we find several fast trains, two of which are running 70 mph.

On the BNSF Transcon south of Amarillo we caught five fast freights in about 40-minutes. Most of the locomotives are BNSF, but there were others in the mix, such as Ferromex, Northfork Southern and Union Pacific.

Fast freights filmed on the Transcon out of Amarillo & further west.

11 Fast Freights filmed south of Amarillo at Rockwell Road grade crossing from late afternoon to night.