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[spbed]

Anybody know if they are going to be in Idaho, Utah or Wy 1st week June this year?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by spbed

Anybody know if they are going to be in Idaho, Utah or Wy 1st week June this year?

If you're going to be in and around Pocatello and on the lookout for some neat stuffs, you can always stop by Ross Park and check out the UP#2005 (MK-1 2-8-2), an OSL CA-1 wooden caboose and the UP#6901 (DD40X; same variety as the #6936). Hard to say if the #844 and #3985 will be out that way this summer; the last time I saw one or the other was in 1995 when the #3985 came through my hometown of Blackfoot, Idaho on the Montana Subdivision.

[spbed]

Tks yes I will for sure be in Pocatello end May coming from SLC on the way to Yellowstone. I will for sure check out your suggestions. I hard copy this page to put in my trip file. I really would like to see them running as well which was the real reason for my post. BTW there is a beauty in Ft. Madison. Iowa on the east side of the BNSF transcon tracks. You can see it by logging onto livetrains.com

[spbed]

Yes thank U for your suggestion & I have mapquested the entire route of the UPRR from Ogden to McCammon which is the way I will be coming. I also have use of the UPRR system maps that they gave me. I have already connected the dots on a Utah/Idaho map using the UPRR system maps to ensure I miss nothing. Thank you again for your kind help. I have also hard copied your message. I will also be going thru Idaho Falls on my way to the west entrance of Yellowstone. BTW if you want some really super shots try Hood River Or. You can watch from a rise I would say 100/150" high & you are looking down on the UPRR tracks then the Columbia River then The BNSF tracks on the north side of the Columbia river. I saw lots of UPRR trains whose tracks are alongside I-84 & my partner would video the trains from back to front as they were moving EB between Portland & Hood River. From Portland to Hood River their are really many good spots that are very pretty & are easily accessable from I think is old route 30 including passing sidings. I would recommend that area to any railfan for trainwatching. In Hood River you can get pix of them going over the Hood river. Much different scenery then what I was used to in the Daggett/Colton/Barstow area.

[dldance]

East Idaho RR runs a train or two a day from Idaho Falls to Ashton - most of the time the track is parallel to US Hwy 20.

dd

ps: LostMTKid - I grew up in Blackfoot as well.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance

East Idaho RR runs a train or two a day from Idaho Falls to Ashton - most of the time the track is parallel to US Hwy 20.

dd

ps: LostMTKid - I grew up in Blackfoot as well.

It's a small world indeed... :) I have fond memories of watching the PCSB/SBPC, the Wooley Valley Ore Trains and their helpers and especially the Aberdeen Local. My folks lived in Wapello at first and later in Blackfoot proper. I commuted to Poky to go to ISU and spent my summer vacations (93-97) working for the Black Hills Central in Hill City, SD. I started working at the diesel shop in Poky in 1997, spent seven months in '98 at the old/new Hinkle Shop as a 'co-op engineer' (aka: college kid flunkie), came back to Poky for one more semester and then was christened as a manager at Hinkle in Feb of '99. In the end, I ended up here in Ellensburg working towards a Ph.D. in anthropology. I make it back to Blackfoot once or twice a year to see my parents and some of my old friends I met while at Idaho State.

[miniwyo]

When i was at the shop in august I asked when they were coming through RS next and they said it would be sometime in june. www.upsteam.com says the schedule will be posted in march.