Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[Anonymous]

BNSF power on a CP train 183, Bensenville to Twin Cities intermodal. This is the third time i have seen all BNSF power on this train. Sometimes i even see UP power pulling.

[Mikeygaw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

Sunday afternoon while on the way to work [:(!] I saw a CSX unit behind a UP engine leaving North Little Rock. I think, but don't hold me to it because I was driving and only got to see it for a second and also because I am kinda forgetful about numbers, that it was 7226. It looked like a SD40-2 but like I said I only got to see it for a second.

don't worry jim... we wont hold ya too it... especially since 7226 is a C44AC and the nearest SD40-2 is in the 7800's

[eolafan]

Yesterday (Sunday, May 23) while foaming at BNSF Eola Yard outside of Aurora, IL I saw a west bound Z train with three Dash-9 units (nothing exciting about this yet, hey?), and simply yawned until I saw no less than six BNSF office cars on the rear end, including the car with the full glass rear end carrying the markers on the rear end! Now THAT made my day!

[Anonymous]

Sunday afternoon while on the way to work [:(!] I saw a CSX unit behind a UP engine leaving North Little Rock. I think, but don't hold me to it because I was driving and only got to see it for a second and also because I am kinda forgetful about numbers, that it was 7226. It looked like a SD40-2 but like I said I only got to see it for a second.

[UPTRAIN]

Yesterday, Northbound from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, train full of military equipment such as humvees, semis, front end loaders, and boats. No artillery and such, clearly an engineering unit. It was led by UP C40-8 #9151.

[JoeKoh]

A csx ge 40-8 a bnsf dash 9(norange of course) and a wc sd-45 waiting to turn in deshler.Later were picking up cars in Defiance.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

I have a question about the transition phase difference between EMD and GE units mentioned in your forum post. Which builder's products are you identifying as having the rougher transition phase? It's a small, inconsequential item for sure, but I'm interested in the answer.
Thanks.

BLColburn
]

Recently I saw a strange lash-up on the BNSF River Sub by my house. Here's how it went:
1. SD40-2 --- BN
2. SD70MAC --- BNSF pumpkin
3. SD50 --- Oakway leasing, still in full EMD paint
4. C44-9W --- BNSF pumpkin

I couldn't figure out why BNSF would running an A.C. unit in the middle of 3 D.C. units espically since D.C.units have the transition phase with the traction motors, and A.C. units do not. Also, why they would be running a single GE in the midst of all those EMD's ( GE's have a much different transition phase than EMD's [much rougher] and just one GE in a lashup of all EMD's can screw up the transition of the EMD's). A friend of mine suggested that it was a power shortage because he saw a SUPER odd lash-up himself, It was a coal train running in DPU, up front;
1. SD70MAC
2. GP35
3. GP28M
in rear:
1. SD70MAC
How 'bout them apples?![8D][wow][;)][yeah]

[Anonymous]

Back on May 16, i saw UP 3300 "United Way" . It was the second unit on an eastbound at Lombard. Also, same train, 4 old rusty Southern Pacific Tunnel motors. Interesting train, my pix didnt turn out so great. Train was too fast and the sun bad.

[Anonymous]

When Where What
May 21 Alton, IL SP Auto-Max car

May 21 St. Louis, MO BNSF unit coal train-empty, heading north on the K-Line

while ago Carrollton, IL KCS SD-40T-2 or SD-45T-2, gray scheme

[Anonymous]

The other day while on the way to work I saw a NS engine. It was too far away to get a number or tell how many engines were behind it. [:(] [V]

I hope you people are having better luck than I am. This is my 3rd weekend in a row to work so I haven't really been train watching since before then. [:(!] [V] [:(]

[Anonymous]

Yesterday while on the way to work I saw Wisconsin Central boxcar 27637. I hope that is the correct number. I was driving and going under a railroad overpass (originally Rock Island now UP) and only part of the boxcar was visible because of trees. Just at the last second could I see the number so I hope I got it right. Some people like to keep track of car numbers and keep very accurate records of them. I just like to see them and every now and then report that I saw one. [:)] [;)] [:D]

[corwinda]

A Northern Pacific chip gon. (last week)

[tree68]

A bunch (didn't count them) of Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion hoppers being unloaded at a local co-gen plant. The reporting marks were covered and replaced with "JTSX". Sorry, haven't looked it up yet.

[Mikeygaw]

ok, all sightings were from yesterday... CP GP38-2 #7310... A CP caboose... 2 CSX AC4400CW's #425 and 42x... didnt catch the last number of the second unit and a Conrail GP40 443x

[jimbobob27]

santa fe open end pass. car on the end of an amtrak train

[AltonFan]

When: Thursday, 13 May, 2004, between 8:30 and 9:00 AM CDT.
Where: At several points along Golf Road in Des Plaines, Illinois and somewhere on I-294 North, on the former Milwaukee Road line that runs into the former C&NW New Line.
What: A train of flatcars loaded with military equipment, some painted for desert operations. Mostly trucks and humvees, no tanks or other tracked vehicles observed. The train was headed north and west. I first noticed the train while waiting to make a left turn at Golf and Rand; I was able to see it at Golf and River. Passed under the train as it crossed bridge over Golf Road, and passed over it where the line passed under I-294. Could not see motive power, nor length of train.

Keep 'em rolling!

[espeefoamer]

Saturday I saw two warbonnets,still lettered Santa Fe,on a baretable train.[:)]

[Mikeygaw]

took a nice trip to Strasburg... saw two Septa commuter trains in transit... thing is, they have the same type of cars still used by Septa in the museum in Strasburg... i should have some pics up soon...

[Anonymous]

On the way to work this afternoon I saw:

UP 4520 (I think the number is right, I was bearly able to see it from a distance)

UP 1936

They were pulling a general manifest train heading to Van Buren and parts beyond. [;)]

[UPTRAIN]

Thanks mudchicken from the post on the last page...now on to what I saw yesterday. I saw an eastbound intermodal in Poplar Bluff, Missouri with (get this) 2 CEFX locos and a UP on the head end. CEFX number 1 was a rebuilt SD40 to Dash-2 standards...the second was a SD40-2 (pure Dash-2) and the UP was a C44AC. Quite a day indeed.

[Anonymous]

I recently saw....two BAR boxcars on a northbound freight on the River Line...5 UP's...1 CN...a CR (now CSX) SD80MAC...a BNSF DASH9...and two SD40T-2's still in SP paint and two Hgh Noses that use to be NW's, then NS's, and now its owned by NYSW. All the companys start with "N" [:O] [(-D][(-D]

[JoeKoh]

Saturday
matt and I saw csx hauling bombadier garage doors and a lone csx dash 8 going west.
(ate good chili dogs too)
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Early this morning (like 1 am or so) I saw:

UP 7112
UP XXXX

and pushing was UP 8286.

[Anonymous]

Saturday afternoon while on the way to work I saw UP 9442. I wasn't able to get any more info than that. I was driving and taking a turn onto the interstate and some idiot kept trying to pull out in front of me ignoring the yield sign for his lane. [:(] Boo hiss yuck yuck on both counts.

[Anonymous]

While driving yesterday I saw:

UP 9734
UP 2462

these were pulling a mixed train westbound.

I also saw L R & W 7736 setting at the wye. I think they were going to back a train into the receiving tracks. The 7736 is red so it might be a leased unit. The other unit with it was the normal L R & W green/white, but I didn't get it number. Last I heard they only owned 3 locos.

[Mikeygaw]

a former Conrail, now NS, SW1001, still in blue, number 2100, the first in the series

[Anonymous]

On my way home from work today, there were 5 Metra trains parked on the two westbound tracks, along the Kennedy Expressway (I90). All stopped within a half mile, just east of Mayfair Jct. Didnt hear anything on the news or my scanner of what happened. Probably signal problems.

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese

ON the NEC - 4/27 - 2 Conrail GP38s heading North pulling nothing! An Acela Southbound blew right pass them.

Now, if they were GEs, they'd have had to been one pulling the other.....[:D]

I know, I know. But it was such a great lead in.....

[Anonymous]

ON the NEC - 4/27 - 2 Conrail GP38s heading North pulling nothing! An Acela Southbound blew right pass them.

[AltonFan]

Time: Monday, April 26, 2004, ca. 8:15 AM CDT.
Place: UP (former C&NW) Northwest Line, where it crosses Mt. Prospect Road in Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
What: Two road diesels in UP colors, headed north, pulling an old C&NW bay window caboose. After this train passed, a Metra commuter train, pulled by an F40PH named "City of Barrington" went by, headed for downtown Chicago.