Willy
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
blhanel wrote:Hey Allan, what time did you catch that second one and which way was he headed?
Nice pictures, what camera are you using?
BNSFrailfan wrote: blhanel wrote:Hey Allan, what time did you catch that second one and which way was he headed?If im correct the Manifest was heading to Lincoln.
Westbound, then? Reason I asked is that Saturday afternoon, while traveling down the Mississippi on the Wisconsin side, I caught a northbound mixed manifest that looked almost identical to that one- had a couple of flats with yellow construction equipment on it near the front. Must have been a different one, though.
eolafan wrote:Your second shot looks like a manifest freight that left Eola yard in Aurora, IL on Saturday at about 1:00 p.m. Those look like Catepillar pieces of equipment and they routinely leave Eola on a MSP freight (the Catepillar plant is here in Aurora). Did you happen to see this freight late Saturday afternoon so it may have had time to get from Eola to your neck of the woods?
I betcha that's the one I saw, Jim. It was northbound near Fountain City around 3:30 PM, two foreward-facing widecabs up front. Unfortunately I was southbound on Highway 35 at the time, so I didn't get a chance at a picture.
I don't think any train could leave Eola yard at 1PM and cross most of Illinois and all of Iowa and be in eastern Nebraska the same day, at least in daylight hours. Correct me if I am wrong, please.
William
william6 wrote: eolafan wrote:Your second shot looks like a manifest freight that left Eola yard in Aurora, IL on Saturday at about 1:00 p.m. Those look like Catepillar pieces of equipment and they routinely leave Eola on a MSP freight (the Catepillar plant is here in Aurora). Did you happen to see this freight late Saturday afternoon so it may have had time to get from Eola to your neck of the woods? I don't think any train could leave Eola yard at 1PM and cross most of Illinois and all of Iowa and be in eastern Nebraska the same day, at least in daylight hours. Correct me if I am wrong, please. William
william6 wrote: I don't think any train could leave Eola yard at 1PM and cross most of Illinois and all of Iowa and be in eastern Nebraska the same day, at least in daylight hours. Correct me if I am wrong, please. William
I thought his question was directed at me concerning the train I saw.
That manifest looks like the GAL LIN but not sure. Most of the cat stuff winds up being switched in at galesburg so no real trains from chicago run straight through to lincoln, unless its the Q CHIDEN or of course the Z.
Very nice shots btw. Is the double track project going well out that way? We havent heard much off the Neb Div in a while.
Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train
route_rock wrote: That manifest looks like the GAL LIN but not sure. Most of the cat stuff winds up being switched in at galesburg so no real trains from chicago run straight through to lincoln, unless its the Q CHIDEN or of course the Z. Very nice shots btw. Is the double track project going well out that way? We havent heard much off the Neb Div in a while.
BNSFrailfan wrote:I spent the whole day at Oreapolis on the BNSF Creston line and I had a Great time. Allan.
Allan.
Allan:-
Thanks for sharing your pictures with us, I enjoyed looking at them.
In the future, though, I have this teensy bit of constructive criticism that I would like you, and a whole lot of other contributors to the Trains Magazine website, to take to heart.
When you mention a station or a geographic place, please include the name of the state at which its located. "Oreapolis" by itself isn't very helpful, but "Oreapolis, Nebr. on the BNSF/Amtrak Creston, Iowa line" would be a lot more meaningful.
On a secondary note, after doing some research I discovered that Oreapolis is the junction between
The Union Pacific's Falls City line (nee MoPac) connecting Omaha and Kansas City crosses the BNSF here as well.
The URL appearing below pretty well illustrates this idea.
http://www.bnsf.com/tools/reference/division_maps/div_ne.pdf
route_rock wrote: Well I hope they get a move on lol means more trains off the Ottumwa Sub for us. I can see the Creston and Chicago Pools getting a lot bigger if we can get more coal trains moved across that bottleneck. Also might make the Chief DS calm down when he sees his Z trains making better time.
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