Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[eolafan]

Saw two Amtrak Hiawatha service trains (one Northbound the other Southbound) at the Sturtevant, WI station at the same time for a meet. I was on my way up to Hartford, WI and stopped for a burger at the station and was listening to my scanner when the two Hiawathas came into the Sturtevant station within about one minute of each other and were in the station together for about two minutes or so. An Asian couple with a little kid boarded the Northbound train to Milwaukee which seemed strange as Milwaukee is only about 25 miles away and a taxi might have been cheaper to take but perhaps they wanted the kid to have a train ride. This was the first time I have seen two Amtraks at this station at the same time...think it is a rare occurance. The usual old time railfans were there in their lawn chairs with scanners. Just as I was about to leave the gates came down and the local switching power came into the station area engine lite to lock her up for the night (an ex SOO GP38 I believe), they lock her up on a spur at the station and shut the unit down and lock the doors before leaving.

[edblysard]

Dharmon...even better and funnier in real life!
Ed

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Dharmon...even better and funnier in real life!
Ed

Ed, send him this way, we could use a little humor around here. [:D]


Yesterday I saw 2 Duck Duck Goose [:D] [;)] [:D] boxcars but was not able to get a photo. [:(]

One of these days I will. [^]

[Anonymous]

Sunday saw a train along CN coming back from fishin'. Went around the corner and saw the FRED (Flashing Rear End Device). It had 5 engines, about 15 or so cars. It was probably heading to Brighton to pick up some lumber. First train I've seen in a while.

[railfanespee4449]

2 Union Pacific GP's, SP # 100, Western Pacific Feather River route boxcar, And Rio Grande SD in original paint!!
(and a Conrail quality engine)
IN IOWA

[tmcc man]

i saw a couple of trains. First was a NS lashup with 3 Dash9s, and a bunch of intermodal, as well as piggy back cars, saw 2 CSX Dash 9s on a mixed freight with boxcars, piggy back, tank cars, gondolas, and so on. Also saw the New Hope and Ivyland's mixed freight with the GP 9 at the front, as well as the 2-8-0 pulling the passenger. I live right near Warminster, and sometimes hang out at the station, and at the switching facility near the end of the septa line, where the NHI, and the SEPTA meet

[coborn35]

4 EMD units, BN,SF,BNSF, and then.......MEET YOUR MAKER, a EMDX unit.

[CSXrules4eva]

Only 2 1/2 hours ago I saw a brand new UTLX tank car and a couple of Septa Silverliners. Oh and I also saw a East Penn Railroad pick up truck. Very exciting stuffs.......

[rf16a]

Last week in Altoona, PA I saw three scale test cars, one in a west bound train, one in an east bound train and one on display outside the Railroaders Memorial Museum.

[selector]

Took this shot from the Trans-Canada about 10 miles south of Lytton, in the Fraser River Valley. CPR mixed struggling against the grade and curves. I thought it was a pretty sight.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Dharmon...even better and funnier in real life!
Ed

Ed, send him this way, we could use a little humor around here. [:D]


Yesterday I saw 2 Duck Duck Goose [:D] [;)] [:D] boxcars but was not able to get a photo. [:(]

One of these days I will. [^]

**Photos are from www.krunk.org**

[Anonymous]

NS hihood geep in North Little Rock. [:D]

We have a variety of other railroads power coming into North Little Rock but this is the first time I have been close and personal with it. [:D]

I will try and post a pic of it later, that is if the photo is good enough to post. [;)]

[oskar]

a CRIX SD50




kevin

[fuzzybroken]

I spotted some unusual-looking cars in a train on CP in Kenosha County
while coming back from Bristol Renaissance Faire today, so I turned around
and got a couple pictures of 'em at Wepco:
www.fuzzyworld3.com/rr04.html

So my question is... where were they coming from??? What were they doing in Cheese-land??? And who's building them???

Enjoy!
-Mark

[egmurphy]

Thought this was interesting, if only because of how far the unit is from it's home. It a Genesee & Wyoming unit that I caught last week. It was working mu'd to a FerroSur unit in Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico (about 2 hours east of Mexico City on the mainline to Veracruz). I'm assuming it's down here because G&W owns FCMM (Ferrocarril Chiapas-Mayab), which is located in the southeast part of the country. The unit must be on the FerroSur tracks as part of some power sharing agreement.



btw, I can't ID the diesel type. So if anyone out there can tell me what it is I'd appreciate it. I also couldn't find a G&W roster list to check the number against.


At the same place I caught this Mexican Army coach (?), occupied and placed in the middle of a freight train. Apparently the Army still uses the railroads to move personnel around. The reporting marks SDNX are "Secretaria de Defensa Nacional".




Regards

Ed

[Noah Hofrichter]

I got another chance to chase the MALPM today(with a WSOR unit on the point this time). Here are a few of my photos from the day:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/ade.jpg
I started my Day at Merrimac WI, with photo at the bridge. Today wasn't bad up here weather wise, but of course a cloud decided to block to sun right as the train made it's way out onto the bridge.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115439
The Next photo comes at the Highway 113 crossing. I just, and I mean just made it to the crossing in time for this shot. I actually took it out of the window of the car!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115440
The Next is the good old Baraboo Depot. Here the MALPM backs up to drop off the Plastics car for temporary storage on the team track.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115449
With all the backing up, I got a chance to move to another spot to get this shot as the Locomotive backed up to go back to it's train in Baraboo.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/noahhofrichter/adf.jpg
Next they went to Perry Judd Printing, where I got a shot of the short trackage of "street running"(if you can really even call it that, it just crosses an area where a parking lot meets a street, probably 100 feet long or so).

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115444
Now a new angle that you folks haven't seen from me at least before. This is from the Highway 12 bridge in Baraboo. Usually I stand off to the side and look down the hill at it, but this time I walked right up next to the track on the bridge for the shot.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115445
Now it's on to Rock Springs near the Co-op in town. The Moon can be very faintly seen over the closest grain bin, I take it he's a railfan too! [;)]

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115447
This Next shot show the train arriving at Reedsburg, just about to cross South Dewey Ave. He had to pick up one lumber flat and drop off three Cars of Plastic in town today.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=115458
And my Parting Shot of the day. After leaving the rest of it's train back near the short pass, 3801 moves ahead to go into the switchback to pick up an Empty Lumber car at the Hartje Lumber Spur.

All and all I had a good day, but then again anyday with a WSOR train is a good day......[;)]

Noah

[railroad65]

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

Thought this was interesting, if only because of how far the unit is from it's home. It a Genesee & Wyoming unit that I caught last week. It was working mu'd to a FerroSur unit in Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico (about 2 hours east of Mexico City on the mainline to Veracruz). I'm assuming it's down here because G&W owns FCMM (Ferrocarril Chiapas-Mayab), which is located in the southeast part of the country. The unit must be on the FerroSur tracks as part of some power sharing agreement.



btw, I can't ID the diesel type. So if anyone out there can tell me what it is I'd appreciate it. I also couldn't find a G&W roster list to check the number against.


At the same place I caught this Mexican Army coach (?), occupied and placed in the middle of a freight train. Apparently the Army still uses the railroads to move personnel around. The reporting marks SDNX are "Secretaria de Defensa Nacional".




Regards

Ed

Hello Ed,

From your picture, it looks like a old SOUTHERN U23B, can't tell from picture if HIGH HOOD has been chopped or not. But with the stripes on the pilot and the road number, I would bet that's what it is/was. Might not have ever been in NORFOLK SOUTHERN paint.

railroad65

[orangebishop]

while traveling in NE, UP was making a run with a 4 8 4 fron Cheyenne to Omaha and back. I was in Grand Island when the unit was on the return trip and made a 30 min stop. I have some pics., but I'm not a protographer. I would like to share them but do not know how to send them.

[orangebishop]

while traveling in NE, UP was making a run with a 4 8 4 fron Cheyenne to Omaha and back. I was in Grand Island when the unit was on the return trip and made a 30 min stop. I have some pics., but I'm not a protographer. I would like to share them but do not know how to send them.

[egmurphy]

QUOTE: railroad65: can't tell from picture if HIGH HOOD has been chopped or not...

The short hood is definitely high, not chopped. I got a shot of that end but it was a bit blurry because the train was moving.

QUOTE: orangebishop: I have some pics., but I'm not a protographer. I would like to share them but do not know how to send them.

First step is to open an account with one of the free picture hosting services on the internet. You can't actually upload pictures from your computer to this forum. You upload to one pf the photo hosting websites, then put a link in your post here with the photos 'direction'.

So step one is to open an account. Many of us use www.railimages.com. Another service is www.photobucket.com. But there are lots of them. Once you get the account set up, follow their instructions to upload your photos to their website.

With your photos uploaded, find the 'direction' of the photo by right clicking on the photo, then clicking on 'properties' in the drop down menu. The direction will look something like http://www.railimages.com/gallery/edmurphy/aga.jpg . Highlight the address and copy it.

In your post here, you type in right after (again, leaving out the space). That should do it.

Oh, one more thing, if you do use railimages, you have to change the word 'gallery' to 'albums' in the address.

Scroll up a few messages, right click on any of the photos that have been posted (then click on 'properties'), and you can see some of the different websites that people are using to host their photos. It will show up as part of the address of the photo.

Regards

Ed

[oskar]

that engine is definaly a EX NS it has the numbers still NS or Southern gave them,black and white snow plow. so it is a U23B or what some people call them ''U boats''





kevin

[egmurphy]

Oskar & railroad65 - Thanks for the help ID'ing the unit. I've got to start studying my "Diesel Spotter's Guide" more seriously!


regards

Ed

[Anonymous]

2 NS engines pulling a mixed train in Central Arkansas. [8] [:)]

[Anonymous]

UP 2002 The Salt Lake City Olympic engine. [:D]

[Anonymous]

A variety of UP power, including one of the new SD70ACes, several NS units, some SP and SSW power, and a CN unit. [:D]

Not a bad day railfanning. [;)]

[wctransfer]

Hows abouts i show you

[Noah Hofrichter]

WCtransfer, where abouts did you see the New Mexico Bi-level car thingie? I know they came though Milwaukee on the UP, and I'm just wondering where they've been headed.

Noah

[JoeKoh]

lets see a up switcher and a molten steel car. pretty good stuff
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

UP 8599 an ex Rio G unit.

[Anonymous]

The UP 1982 (the Missouri Pacific Heritage unit) [:D] [:D] [:D]

Zach wanted me to call him and let him know when it arrived. He asked me if it was clean. I told him, "Yes." Then I got closer and noticed the bug splatters (but you have to be pretty close to see them [;)] ) . So Zach, I hope it looked clean to you. [;)] Several people turned out to take photos of it. [^]

It is a very nice looking unit and I was very surprised to be able to see it so soon. [:)] It is worth your time to see it if you can. [;)]