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Posted by HighPlains on Thursday, January 7, 2010 5:54 PM

This is way off topic but has to do with trains anyway, just real ones and the lengths that the BNSF is getting on their intermodals:

http://www.bnsf.com/employees/communications/bnsf_today/2009/08/2009-08-13-c.html

 Enjoy the weather! We are a balmy 22 degrees here in eastern New Mexico.

 

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:12 PM

Thanks.  Cold thanks to Yanks up north. Disapprove

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Posted by HighPlains on Thursday, January 7, 2010 9:48 PM

ChiefEagles

Thanks.  Cold thanks to Yanks up north. Disapprove

 

I hope you guys warm up. That humid cold is a killer. I thought I would freeze to death on Christmas Eve 5 years ago in Orlando, Florida. It's so cold here that I had to run my old model 2026 around the track 4 or 5 times just to get the gears warmed up!

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Posted by 11th Street on Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:01 PM

 "Enjoy the weather! We are a balmy 22 degrees here in eastern New Mexico"

Yes, but winter in the Land of Enchantment  is over by March, while in the NE we still have 6 more weeks to go.

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Posted by underworld on Friday, January 8, 2010 12:42 AM

 WoW!!!! That is a looooonnnngggggg train!!! 458 units...is that containers or trailers that hold the containers???

 

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Posted by HighPlains on Friday, January 8, 2010 7:55 AM

 It could be both containers or trailers. I haven't been down to Clovis lately so I'm not sure about the BNSF. The UP has been running combinations of container well, piggybacks and automobile transports in the same train lately in my area but nothing I've seen is as long as the BNSF is claiming.

 

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Posted by HighPlains on Friday, January 8, 2010 8:02 AM

11th Street
(BTW: despite the lack at attics/basements can't wait to move to Placitas/Sandia Park Cool

 

Don't blame you! I've lived and worked in lots of places but there is no place like New Mexico.

 

Mike

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