Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[chad thomas]

Bump.

[solzrules]

.....the remains of an ancient Milwaukee Road line from Menomonee Falls, WI to North Lake, WI.  The old tracks used to run by the Harly-Davidson plant in Meno Falls.  Harly did some shrub and tree removal and low and behold!  Underneath all that greenery were ties, ballast, even a section of really light rail here and there.  Kinda neat. 

[oskar]

Friday I saw some more McCormic Sub signals which are now killing DTC here, a NS CW40-8 # 8432 which is still showing CR blue along with that he had a UP C44-9W # 9793.

Saturday, CSX 7,ex CSX 9106, CSX 285, Spirit of Clinchfield, and some SD70's and ES44DC's.

Sunday- NS 192 had 2 Vets running the train with NS 5170 and 1621, NS 6181 which had the WF/HH paint with Stripes on Plow, a ex CR SD50 now CSX SD50-2 and a NS GP38AC still running like its new.

 

kevin

[Mikeygaw]

light power move consisting NS SD40-2 #3418 and NS B40-8 #4815, which is still in CR blue

leaser SD40-2 and CSX B36-7 #5836

[Anonymous]

Few days ago I saw a Willamette & Pacific GP9... man those hi nose units are cool!  Not sure where the "black widow" painted one went but I don't think it is in Eugene anymore.  (this guy - http://cencalrails.railfan.net/wp1801.jpg

Oh, and I forgot - recently took a trip to the coast and got to see some old semaphore signals.  (non operational but still cool)

[CrazyDelmar]

Last Night in Champaign,IL there was a slow-moving 50 car feight crossing Prospect Avenue. If you have ever been to Champaign recently, and been on that road, you'll know how busy it is!

A line of cars reached back about 1.75 miles from where I was at.

 

My Reaction: to the car drivers,as I rode by on my bike!!!!

[eolafan]

This afternoon I saw two just recently rebuilt BNSF GP38-2 units at Eola yard coupled back to back.  Both were painted in the new orange and black "swoosh" paint scheme and had two new white air conditioners on their roofs.  As I recall BNSF is in the middle of buying a bunch of these for yard switching in lieu of new switchers as new ones are not avilable form the big two builders (right?).  They looked pretty darned good but the horns sucked really bad!

[locomutt]

While we were at the tracks yesterday,we were able to catch an NS unit coal train being pulled
by 2 high hood GP 50s,a GP 38-2 & a GP 40-2;a bit unusual for here,we generally only see
six axle units with those trains.

[wctransfer]

ANOTHER!!!!!! I cant believe it, almost a month and half, and I only had seen one SD45 all summer. Now in 2 days, ive seen 2!

Today we had the 7527!

Alec

[wctransfer]

A sexay WC SD45, number 7522.

Alec

[Noah Hofrichter]

I caught a UP ballast train loading at Rock Springs, Wisconsin last week, with a Dash 8, a SD60M, and an SD40-2. Usually all we get up here are SD40-2s, so this is pretty cool!:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=151735

Noah

[locomutt]

An NS Dash 9-40CW (Operation Lifesaver) with an NS SD 70 (std. cab.) pulling an eastbound through here this afternoon.

[Anonymous]

A faded ACL sand car in southern Ga

[Anonymous]

would you believe . . . . . . . trains . . . [:o)] [:D] [:o)]

[william6]

On the BNSF in southern Iowa, a westbound train, 100% trailers on flat cars (TOFC). Some were UPS trailers, some reefer trailers, plus other dry vans. Don't normally see that kind of train in my neighborhood.

[CNW 6000]

UP 9829 (ex C&NW 8725) on CN tracks in WI

[oskar]

a UP SD40-2R # 3155 and on the NS side a NS D8-40C in CR paint.




kevin

[Anonymous]

A burgundy colored "Ohio Central" passenger car on a southbound Amtrak in Folkston, Ga.

[Anonymous]

A U.P. hopper car with the reporting mark of CMO. I looked that up to see it's for Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Rwy. I think the CNW quit using the CStpM&O name in the mid-fifites & this hopper car was of fairly recent vintage...

[Anonymous]

here's a few Aladian cars i caught last Summer...

[Anonymous]

72 trains in 2 days........

[Anonymous]

IANR GP38-2 #3804 and #3807, and a GE Railcar S1 (S2?)

[Anonymous]

EMDX 71 (again) [:)]

[locomutt]

2 UP SD70Ms with an auto rack train,an NS Dash 9 CW40 running light,
a CSX GP 40-GP 30 mother slug set with one car(coil) and an NS MP 15AC
with about 30 interchange cars from the P & L. All within less than an hours time span.[:)]

[JoeKoh]

an ASPLUNDH weed sprayer set of cars on the back end of q500 going west to chicago this morning in deshler.
stay safe
Joe

[wctransfer]

CN 5374
CN 5720

YAWN

Alec

[Anonymous]

Wow, at least you got to see something good. Man, in the rain at night....

[METRO]

A CP grainer powered by two SD40-2s going flat out to overtake an intermodal pulled by an AC4400 that was doing at least 40mpr. It was at about 9:30pm last night in light rain under the lights in Wauatosa WI (a suburb of Milwaukee.)

Not at all rare power, but one of those moments in railroading that really takes your breath away.

Cheers!
~METRO

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CNW 6000

Jim, was that in Texas yesterday?

No, after being released from Jenks about a week ago it has been in Arkansas since then.

It is currently, as I type, in lower Illinois and headed to Chicago.