Best Regards, Big John
Kiva Valley Railway- Freelanced road in central Arizona. Visit the link to see my MR forum thread on The Building of the Whitton Branch on the Kiva Valley Railway
Originally posted by canazar OK, Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply MP173 Member sinceMay 2004 From: Valparaiso, In 5,921 posts Posted by MP173 on Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:53 PM if you go to Flagstaff, then go to the Crown Railroad Cafe on the east side of town. You can sit in there and eat, look at all of the railroad signage in the restaurant and watch the action right outside. Hopefully the model train will be working on the inside. ed Reply chad thomas Member sinceJanuary 2005 From: Ely, Nv. 6,312 posts Posted by chad thomas on Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:16 PM John, I have spent a lot of time railfanning the BNSF between Cajon and Needles. And have been out to Flagstaff many times. This line is generaly very busy but traffic levels do drop off sun-tues. This is a reflection of lower traffic originations on the weekends. I wouldn't worry about it too much. After all a slow day on the BNSF transcon beats record days on most other lines. But given a choice I would opt for friday night into saturday over sat-sun or sun-mon. Good luck Chad Reply joegreen Member sinceApril 2004 From: Illinois 484 posts Posted by joegreen on Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:07 PM The buisiest day that I can tell is Friday. I like to railfan on that day when I can. www.12ozprophet.com Reply canazar Member sinceAugust 2004 From: Phoenix, Arizona 1,989 posts Posted by canazar on Friday, April 22, 2005 12:09 AM Wow, thanks guys... Unforuntatly, I am stuck going up Sunday/Monday. Just works out with my work schedule and everything else. But thanks for the tip Chad, makes sense. SPED, I like your theroy, kinda what I was hopeing for too, guess we will see. MP173, Thanks for the heads up on the cafe. I will keep that in mind when head up there. Actually, we are going to camp about 20 miles west of Flagstaff. When the girl and I went exploring in Feb, we found a couple of great spots to camp. One of them, with permission of the land owner, we camped like 50 feet from the tracks. (Yeah, it was loud, it was an expeirence for sure) So I will be taking the kiddo to another place we found that will put us about 100 yrds away across a nice field from the tracks. Should be great.... I am hopeing to be sitting there by the camp fire with a train going past us on a gentle curve... We leave Sunday morningish. When we get back, I will do a write up of how it went and what we saw. Ill post some pics in my webshots section. Best Regards. John k P.S. Chad, MP173(ed) and DHarmon.. Seems like I have been bumping into you guys alot lately..... So , uh.... Howdy there! Now its official. Best Regards, Big John Kiva Valley Railway- Freelanced road in central Arizona. Visit the link to see my MR forum thread on The Building of the Whitton Branch on the Kiva Valley Railway Reply chad thomas Member sinceJanuary 2005 From: Ely, Nv. 6,312 posts Posted by chad thomas on Friday, April 22, 2005 9:49 AM Good luck John. We'll be looking forward to those pix. And if you do any exploring I recomend checking out williams jct. It's one of my favorite places. Reply TheS.P.caboose Member sinceMarch 2005 From: Canoga Park (Los Angeles) 494 posts Posted by TheS.P.caboose on Friday, April 22, 2005 7:52 PM Normally the traffic gets busy on Wednesday afternoon and slows down either late Sunday or early Monday. The railroads like to get their traffic into the destination yard on Sunday's if possible. Locals are busy on Mondays and Tuesdays to clean out the yard. Regards Gary Reply Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
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