| A brief hike through the snow brings us to the western end of Shed 12. BNSF 4986 tugs an eastbound vehicle train up Walton Hill. |  |
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BNSF 4450 coasts down the hill with a westbound. |
| Sounding like a hive of angry bees, the GE C44-9Ws buzz by in full dynamic braking. |  |
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Essex "work power" usually consists of a pair of late model Geeps, usually GP38-2s or GP39 rebuilds. To date, BNSF "Heritage" paint hasn't touched these units. |
| The following day, temperatures plunged back down into single digits. Snow runoff turned to ice, making driving conditions treacherous on US 2, and forming a sheet of ice on the side of snow dozer BN 972504. Now that's cold! |  |
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