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Take a break!
Posted by Mookie on Monday, August 30, 2004 12:57 PM
All the techno items hard on your brain?

Take a break into sheer nothingness and travel with me!

We will take you on a weekend journey into what was in the Lincoln area over this last weekend!

BNSF must have been on vacation again on Sat. I sat for four hours and only saw a few coal trains and one or two freights. Maybe they were on E-Bay buying grain cars?

Sunday was better.

But what I saw on both days may interest you, or may not.

#2549 - CN ( a Dash 9)

FURX coal cars with a hole drilled in one of the ends - 925110 series -
round cylinder holes - like you would take a long pipe and put thru there and hang them up to dry? (Well, women think in terms of household chores!)

Conrail engine #4442 - GP 40 (according to my roster)

Conrail #5402 - (didn't look this one up)

(I can't read my notes very well, but think I saw #255 - Montana Rail)

Then the usual BNSF along with - #338 - GP60, #2800 and #2858 - GP 39, #6199 SD9, #2701 - GP39, #3648 - SW10, #3402 - SW15, #3821 - SD7, #3019 - GP40, #2512 - GP35, and #2739 - GP 39. (Can you tell the driver bought me some new binoculars?)

I can practically see Mudchicken in Colorado....

OK - back to the brain busters!

Mookie

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Posted by cherokee woman on Monday, August 30, 2004 1:13 PM
Mookie, sounds like a very interesting train watching time yesterday! Hope you can't
see all the way to Louisville with those binoculars: we just might be in trouble!!
(ha ha, lol) [angel]
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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, August 30, 2004 1:28 PM
She couldn't see all the way in to Colorado, the asparagus plants were too high![:D][:D][:D]

Or was it all that corn inbetween?
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Posted by Randy Stahl on Monday, August 30, 2004 9:41 PM
SD-9s !!!! Cool locomotive !!!!thought they were all gone. OK I'll take a break, sometimes I can't see the forest through the trees. I havn't been train watching for fun , for a long long time. I'm coming to Colorado in 2 weeks MC. going to Monte Vista, Alamosa etc..... for a side job on an SW-8
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Posted by athelney on Monday, August 30, 2004 11:06 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

All the techno items hard on your brain?

Take a break into sheer nothingness and travel with me!

We will take you on a weekend journey into what was in the Lincoln area over this last weekend!

BNSF must have been on vacation again on Sat. I sat for four hours and only saw a few coal trains and one or two freights. Maybe they were on E-Bay buying grain cars?

Sunday was better.

But what I saw on both days may interest you, or may not.

#2549 - CN ( a Dash 9)

FURX coal cars with a hole drilled in one of the ends - 925110 series -
round cylinder holes - like you would take a long pipe and put thru there and hand them up to dry? (Well, women think in terms of household chores!)

Conrail engine #4442 - GP 40 (according to my roster)

Conrail #5402 - (didn't look this one up)

(I can't read my notes very well, but think I saw #255 - Montana Rail)

Then the usual BNSF along with - #338 - GP60, #2800 and #2858 - GP 39, #6199 SD9, #2701 - GP39, #3648 - SW10, #3402 - SW15, #3821 - SD7, #3019 - GP40, #2512 - GP35, and #2739 - GP 39. (Can you tell the driver bought me some new binoculars?)

I can practically see Mudchicken in Colorado....

OK - back to the brain busters!

Mookie



What was the CN unit up too? Your located down in Nebraska area arn't you ? Seems like they've got away from us up here in Canada !!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 30, 2004 11:23 PM
Mook, you may not have the latest zoot techno mondo stuff, but u ask the coolest questions, really. The question about the keys, I would't have thought of that in a million years !![8D]
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Posted by jeffhergert on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:55 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by athelney

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

All the techno items hard on your brain?

Take a break into sheer nothingness and travel with me!

We will take you on a weekend journey into what was in the Lincoln area over this last weekend!

BNSF must have been on vacation again on Sat. I sat for four hours and only saw a few coal trains and one or two freights. Maybe they were on E-Bay buying grain cars?

Sunday was better.

But what I saw on both days may interest you, or may not.

#2549 - CN ( a Dash 9)

FURX coal cars with a hole drilled in one of the ends - 925110 series -
round cylinder holes - like you would take a long pipe and put thru there and hand them up to dry? (Well, women think in terms of household chores!)

Conrail engine #4442 - GP 40 (according to my roster)

Conrail #5402 - (didn't look this one up)

(I can't read my notes very well, but think I saw #255 - Montana Rail)

Then the usual BNSF along with - #338 - GP60, #2800 and #2858 - GP 39, #6199 SD9, #2701 - GP39, #3648 - SW10, #3402 - SW15, #3821 - SD7, #3019 - GP40, #2512 - GP35, and #2739 - GP 39. (Can you tell the driver bought me some new binoculars?)

I can practically see Mudchicken in Colorado....

OK - back to the brain busters!

Mookie



What was the CN unit up too? Your located down in Nebraska area arn't you ? Seems like they've got away from us up here in Canada !!

Don't forget, the Canadian National runs to Council Bluffs/Omaha. So a CN unit in Lincoln isn't too far from home rails.
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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:16 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by athelney

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

All the techno items hard on your brain?

Take a break into sheer nothingness and travel with me!

We will take you on a weekend journey into what was in the Lincoln area over this last weekend!

BNSF must have been on vacation again on Sat. I sat for four hours and only saw a few coal trains and one or two freights. Maybe they were on E-Bay buying grain cars?

Sunday was better.

But what I saw on both days may interest you, or may not.

#2549 - CN ( a Dash 9)

FURX coal cars with a hole drilled in one of the ends - 925110 series -
round cylinder holes - like you would take a long pipe and put thru there and hand them up to dry? (Well, women think in terms of household chores!)

Conrail engine #4442 - GP 40 (according to my roster)

Conrail #5402 - (didn't look this one up)

(I can't read my notes very well, but think I saw #255 - Montana Rail)

Then the usual BNSF along with - #338 - GP60, #2800 and #2858 - GP 39, #6199 SD9, #2701 - GP39, #3648 - SW10, #3402 - SW15, #3821 - SD7, #3019 - GP40, #2512 - GP35, and #2739 - GP 39. (Can you tell the driver bought me some new binoculars?)

I can practically see Mudchicken in Colorado....

OK - back to the brain busters!

Mookie



What was the CN unit up too? Your located down in Nebraska area arn't you ? Seems like they've got away from us up here in Canada !!
I have seen several CN units go through here. Also NS and a few KCS and UP's - over the BNSF lines. UP still has some tracks, but they are becoming quite scarce here in Lincoln. It was on a coal train - as are most of them - heading west.

Mook

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:17 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jruppert

Mook, you may not have the latest zoot techno mondo stuff, but u ask the coolest questions, really. The question about the keys, I would't have thought of that in a million years !![8D]
simple mind, simple questions.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 2, 2004 8:37 AM
I'm also.......(distracted)..........easily entertained!

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