Training in Fargo: SD40-2 BNSF 1885 in SF freightbonnet scheme

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I found some additional photos of the BNSF 1885, a SD40-2 with a snoot nose that plies the yard in Fargo and occassional pulls a train west and visits Northtown Yard. That distinctive snoot and blueboonet freightbonnet* Santa Fe scheme makes it easy to spot. I think I took these from Great Northern Drive near the throat of the yard. 

Formerly SF 5121 and then BNSF 6805 after the merge. Built in November  1979 with builder number 786223-7. On the Santa Fe this engine saw time out west in California then made its way to the Midwest in the early 2000s and then to Minnesota and North Dakota around 2010.

Sometime between spring 2019 and Fall of 2021, the BNSF 1885 was repainted in what looks like the H4 scheme (see here BNSF 1885 in Oct 2021). Looks like they added an air conditioning unit or two too. From the angle of the photo I cannot tell if they reduced the nose size as well.

*It came to my attention that bluebonnet was a color scheme only on passenger engines of the ATSF. The livery on this engine is called freightbonnet

Location: 1909 Great Northern Dr, Fargo, ND 58102, USA

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