And you reckon you have a large fuel bill!

**drivesafe** · 16th June 2009, 06:45 PM

This is a yard being used by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway to store unrequited locomotives because of the down turn in the USA.

Here’s some trivia, while the Union Pacific Railroad is larger, based on track milage, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway operates more trains and when busy, uses 2.1% of all diesel fuel consumed in the USA every day and the only organisation to use more is the US Navy and even this is only during times of war.

**Panda** · 16th June 2009, 06:47 PM

That's mind boggling!

**Blknight.aus** · 16th June 2009, 07:10 PM

sooo,

do you think they'd notice If I did some quality control sampling from all the locos to top up the tanks for the cape trip?

**drivesafe** · 16th June 2009, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Panda

That's mind boggling!

Not wrong, especially when you consider that there are at least 20 other class A railroads and hundreds of huge trucking companies, for this one company to be responsible for consuming that percentage of fuel is just that, Mind Boggling.

**hiline** · 16th June 2009, 07:15 PM

if thats only the engines not used

where's all the carriages stored...................

thats a lot of goods not being freighted through the US
mind boggling really that things are that slow over there ............

**willem** · 16th June 2009, 07:21 PM

The locos look to be in good nick.

Willem

**drivesafe** · 16th June 2009, 07:24 PM

A bit more trivia for those interested in alternate fuels, the BNSF Railway is experimenting with a Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered locomotive.

Can’t imagine why they would be looking for other fuel sources

**drivesafe** · 16th June 2009, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by willem

The locos look to be in good nick.

Willem

I just had a good look at the picture and they are all DC type units and are probably older locomotive.

BNSF also operates a very large fleet of General Electric’s AC diesel electric locos, these use at least 30% less fuel that the DC type and cost around $1,500,000 more than a DC type loco, but the additional cost will easily be recovered through fuel savings over the life span of the locos, around 10 to 15 years.

**Tote** · 16th June 2009, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by drivesafe

I just had a good look at the picture and they are all DC type units and are probably older locomotive.

BNSF also operates a very large fleet of General Electric’s AC diesel electric locos, these use at least 30% less fuel that the DC type and cost around $1,500,000 more than a DC type loco, but the additional cost will easily be recovered through fuel savings over the life span of the locos, around 10 to 15 years.

They'd have a longer life here, 48 class loco in NSW was introduced in 1959 and is still being used.

Regards
Tote

**87County** · 16th June 2009, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by Tote

They'd have a longer life here, 48 class loco in NSW was introduced in 1959 and is still being used.

Regards
Tote

The engine sump capacity on a 48 is about 300 litres and there has been at least one instance of a fitter misreading the pump decimal place and doing his best to put 3000 litres in on a topup..... made a mess of that part of the yard I believe

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