Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[jimbobob27]

on nov. 21 i say three maybe F-units, two A-units and one B-unit and about ten passenger cars headed south on the old GM&O (now UP). all were painted a bright green color but i could not see the name. does anybody know what this train was for and what RR it was painted for.
also saw amtrak pulling old passenger cars again on thanksgiving. first time since july 4th.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday, the only locomotive I saw was NJT 4103 (which is a GP40PH-2).

[JoeKoh]

Ns had 4611 decked out with a traincam if I read the sign on the side of the locomotive right.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jimbobob27

on nov. 21 i say three maybe F-units, two A-units and one B-unit and about ten passenger cars headed south on the old GM&O (now UP). all were painted a bright green color but i could not see the name. does anybody know what this train was for and what RR it was painted for.
also saw amtrak pulling old passenger cars again on thanksgiving. first time since july 4th.

Rail Cruise America out of St. Louis. Usually runs every year to Chicago around the same time of year.

[JoeKoh]

This afternoon
a westbound intermodal passing a manifest and a non stop meet 20 min later. 9 trains and the local in less than an hour. csx was moving today!!!
stay safe
Joe

[Glen Ellyn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by Glen Ellyn

Today was a special day for me. In Wheaton Illinois, I saw Union Pacific #3300, WITH A CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you smile?[:D]

Sorry, I only got a shot of the engine, not me in it.[;)]

[Glen Ellyn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oskar

nice job Glen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks![;)]

[Glen Ellyn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dbld1218

hey, Glen Ellyn what train was UP 3300 on? i was on the UP all day mostly in Rochelle, but i never saw it. Probably went by when i got food. But did you see the forth unit on an eastbound during midday. It was IC&E 363 in NYS&W colors. I got pix of that. Also saw a patched SP and a NS.

I don't think we saw the same train. The one I saw at Whearon Illinois at around 8:00P.M. had a patch CN&W with a normal Union Pacific SD-40, then the third engine was #3300. No other engines. Sorry, but what you saw was pretty cool, but I live where my code name is, and Rochelle is far from here so.....yah.


Could you please post the pix on here, I would like to see them.

What day did you see the train.

[oskar]

a UNPACHED CNW 8575 and a UNPACHED SP 141 it was on NS train 155 or 191 there was a short train before and I got confused but I belive it was 155 it had a NS SD60 in front # 6566 going to Savanna or Macon



kevin

[oskar]

also there was a Beautiful coal train BRAND NEW coal hoppers (CNFX) going to get some coal so it will be dirty when you guys see it next



kevin

[JoeKoh]

Csx using 3 sd40-2s on an intermodal. all leasers 2 gatx ghosts and a dark blue hlcx.
stay safe
Joe

[DPD1]

...The Surfliner set sitting on Metrolink outside the Burbank AP station... Looks pretty good. The cars were nice and clean. It actually looks better then the Metrolink cars. But I think CalTrain has the best looking sets.

Dave
Los Angeles, CA
-DPD Productions - Home of the TrainTenna RR Monitoring Antenna-
http://eje.railfan.net/dpdp/

[Mikeygaw]

I saw CSX GP38-2 #2807 in a yard today

[espeefoamer]

I saw 2 UP geeps splicing an ex U boat RC unit.

[Glen Ellyn]

Recently I saw a Metra that looked a little bigger than an F40PH, but smaller than a Metra bullet engine.

[oskar]

when I was flying in a air plane I saw: 9 yards 2 in Houston,TX 1 Tucson, AZ 3 Augusta,GA 2 in NM 1 in Lou 1 in Greenwood,SC. Also saw 2 trains 1 in Houston a UP tanker train and a CSX train going to Greenwood





kevin

[Anonymous]

Tuesday about 315pm I saw:

UP 4336
BNSF 8286
UP 4887

pulling a intermodal train. It was in from Fort Smith / Van Buran into North Little Rock and changed crews at 12th Street. Then headed up the wye by the yard and elsewhere (probally St. Louis).

This is a UP train with a BNSF warbonnet (and a filthy one at that) so I thought it was a strange train.

Does anyone know if this is a normal routing for intermodal trains? I would have thought it would be more appropriate coming from St. Louis to Dallas. The line from Fort Smith sees "tons" of coal trains [;)] and mixed manifest trains all the time. I have seen intermodal trains on that line just not as many as coal trains or mixed trains.

[Glen Ellyn]

In Joliet I saw an Iowa Interstate freight train on the Rock Island line, and in West Chicago Illinois, their was an old METRA passenger car seond to last car on a freight train.

[joegreen]

Hey I also saw an old METRA car second to last on a westbound BNSF freight train on 7/28/2004 in Savanna ,IL

[JoeKoh]

Saw the emd switcher in its bright yellow paint pulling cars back into the yard at gm.(inside their fence :0( )
stay safe
Joe

[northwesterner]

Metra must be retiring some of the ex-CNW bi-level commuter cars (some date to the mid-1950's). The week before Christmas I saw two of those coaches on a stub track near the interchange point between UP and CP just south of the Metra Clybourn station at Armitage and Ashland on Chicago's north side. I also saw one in the UP yard s. of North Avenue and I-90/94.

[Anonymous]

i have seen those old RTA "Metra" coaches near Clybourn too. They have been there every so often since mid-summer. Anyone know where they're going. the only two places i can think of, where there is new commuter service starting, the Twin Cities and Nashville.

[Glen Ellyn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joegreen

Hey I also saw an old METRA car second to last on a westbound BNSF freight train on 7/28/2004 in Savanna ,IL

Thats odd, on a long Union PAcific train in West Chicago heading west, second to the last car was an old METRA passenger car. On your BNSF train did you happen to catch the number on the car?

[Glen Ellyn]

QUOTE: Originally posted by northwesterner

Metra must be retiring some of the ex-CNW bi-level commuter cars (some date to the mid-1950's). The week before Christmas I saw two of those coaches on a stub track near the interchange point between UP and CP just south of the Metra Clybourn station at Armitage and Ashland on Chicago's north side. I also saw one in the UP yard s. of North Avenue and I-90/94.

What town were the CNW bi-levs in?

[oskar]

I saw a BNSF ex BN Whiteface that had its American Flag tooken off I guess somebody working for BNSF hates USA




kevin

[JoeKoh]

The winnabago on rails has returned!!! a csx inspection car is parked in Deshler!!!
stay safe
Joe

[oskar]

a BNSF SD40-2 in NS's Nixon yard that's the first time I have seen a BNSF switching in that yard





kevin

[Anonymous]

Yesterday, i saw B&LE 909 on a Chicago bound CN (WC) train.

[oskar]

NS 6593 the one that wrecked in Granitville it got pulled by NS 5084 also had a police escort not that much damage




kevin

[Anonymous]

I saw BC Rail 764 at CN's Homewood locomotive facility back on December 30th 2004. Fascinating place to go.