I wish I had interesting trains like the DMIR within the province...you guys are lucky to get interesting railroads, all I have is an unending stream of CP GEs!
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Noah: The B&LE was repainted a long while ago to be DM&IR #215. The only orange units running around now are the B&LE #903 and #909 which have straight air. As for the NSSR, I-35 blocks our direct route the the North Shore so the engine shoves the train out of the Depot onto BNSF property to the Connection Switch where the fireman throws the switch and we move northward.
Alec: The B&LE units are SD40T-2's, the DM&IR units are SD45T-2's.
Hey guys, I don't know if this will fit in but....I'll just post it here. I finaly got my long awaited P2K ATSF SD45 on Tuesday. She is a really nice locomtoive. Runs great, heavy, and great detail. Once I get the guts I'll patch over the "Santa Fe" in a lighter blue, and the nose "Santa Fe". But for now, I think I'll just have WC reporting marks on the side. I will not renumber the unit as the proto-type I'm modeling wasn't renumbered. Now I need is for Athearn to make a WC SD45 and then my roster will be almost complete. Anyway, Enjoy.
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Well, they are originally SD45T-2s, but now are SD40-3s like the DMIR ones. Notice the porch is non existant on the DMIRs, as it is with the BLEs also.
Alec
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
WC fan, neat locomotive. It'll be even neater when it's patched for the WC though!
Max, thanks for the info. Makes more sense than what I had thought of.
I got a little bit of model railroading done myself lately. At a train show last Saturday in La Crosse (which is a great show BTW, lots of good deals to be had) I picked up a UP flat car that begged to have a load of some sort put on it. Back just after Christmas I had also picked up about a dozen of the Athearn John Deere tractors for a buck each on sale at Walmart with the idea that they'd make good loads. I had also already bought on chain to use to make them look like they were tied down. Yesterday I finally say down and worked on putting the two things together:
The chain really isn't holding the tractors down. The tractors each have dollops of Woodland Scenics accent glue on their wheels, which isn't permanent in case I have to remove the tractors.
The third tractor doesn't have chain yet because I ran out. I'm going to the hobby shop on Saturday though, and I'll pick up more then. I'm also playing with the idea of putting blocks of wood as chocks under the wheels. I think it's looking pretty good so far though, I'm happy with it. And considering the project has cost me only $14 so far, when Athearn sells these cars for like $30 without the chain, it means I save a bundle!
Noah
Noah, that looks amazing. I really like it. Gives me an idea for my SOO flat car. But I might just have wraped machinery on it.
Well today I got to go to the yard here in Wausau. It all really starts when I was at the pool. While I was at the pool I hear the train horn as usual. Now I live on the West side of town, so the main line isn't on this side. Well I don't think much of it, but for some reason I had a feeling they where WC locos by the horn. Now I have been wrong before so...I forgot about it. Well I get home and go on MSN. One of my friends on here is from Wausau that lives right by the tracks. He asks me "hey did you see the train that went by". I'm like, "No but I heard it", he's said, "Yeah there where 2 WCs on it". Oh dang, I go and tell my dad this. I asked him if we could go down to the yard. Well we did. Anyway I only got one WC, WC SD40-2 6004, and it looked like it might be the switcher in town. Any way the other one, or two it might be, where out of range and I couldn't even see them. But I was farley lucky to get there just in the right time. About a minute after I take the shot the train from Point starts rolling in. It was a Fake GTW 5940, and IC 6015. These tow locos where on the train from a couple days ago, but the IC was leadin'. Well here are the pictures.
BTW: I haven't edited them so, there not the greatest.
ok this is kinda wierd,
earlier today i was listening to the scanner & i heard the dispatcher call 407 which the 5940 was on. it left neenah at 10:25 this morning & it was staged in anton 10:40 then i the dispatcher again call it before it approached weyauwega to give it authoirty to pass red light since a train was called that was going through earlier & was gonne meet 407 at anton.
Well I just found out from my friend that the WC SD40-2 IS the switcher in town. That's good, Because it can stay, forever. Anyway WC 3011 was on the SB train, which I missed Because it pulled forward in the yard. It had an IC SD40-2 leading, a CN/IC repaint, and the WC GP40.
Brent, that is kinda weird.
RR Redneck wrote:Runnin a red, huh..........y'all got some outlaw dispatchers up north dont you boys?
lol, Yep. We'll sort of.
Yes I'm back, again. What do I got to say now? Well what I got to say is WC SD40-2 6004 is the switcher in town! Yep got it a Graphic Packageing(Which is lke 1/2 a mile from my house). So what's this matter to you guys? idk, just thought I'd share. Anyway these are unedited shots. There really dark, and super grainy(Can't do much about that), but better angles.
BTW: I must be getting annoying. Don't worry, I'm probably not gonna go on a railfan trip untill 2 weeksfrom now, or next weekend.
This next shot a stupied stop sign was in the way. Well, I can't do much about that.
Actually "running a red" really isn't terribly unusual, and is very much "legal" on the railroad under certain conditions. I'm sure it happens down in Texas too.
I've heard CN (as well as CP and UP) dispatchers give authorities to pass reds a few times before. They don't do it while just going along normally on the main line (unless it's a permissive signal found on a grade or something, in which case they do), but more commonly it's given to locals or other trains making pick ups from a yard or siding. Before a train can pass a red signal they must get permission from the dispatcher, and they are still required to come to a full stop before continuing. Usually it has something to do with a locomotive that has to back up to it's train after picking up cars on a siding. If the trains is sitting in CTC terriorty, the system will register a train in that block and the signal will be a red signal for movement towards it. If the locomotives need to get back to the train, they'll need to pass the red signal, and so they need permission.
From what I remember, the over-the-radio clearance usually goes something like "After stopping, CN 5940 has permission to pass a signal displaying stop indication, main to main movement" (or main to siding, depending upon the situation). Not all that unusual at all, in any part of the country.
I've also heard it used in conjunction with a switch that was left lined the wrong way (it was for the siding when the next train needed it for the main), though I don't quite understand why they needed authority to pass the red there. But they must have, as the dispatcher gave it to them.