Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[espeefoamer]

Last Wednesday,at SPs Industry,CA. yard I saw a block of Tropicana reefers on an eastbound train.While it was in the siding, a westbound passed, with a block of Tropicana reefers.both blocks were at the front of thier respective trains.these cars had a small CA on the doors.Is this something new? How often does this train run?The westbound was pulled by two CSX units.The eastbound had a CSX as the 2nd unit.

[AltonFan]

Time: Wednesday, April 21 or Thursday, April 22, 2004, ca. 7:35 PM CDT.
Place: Near the intersection of Golf Road and Rand Road in Desplaines, Illinois.
What: A Canadian National train running northbound on former Wisconsin Central tracks. The consist included four or five flat cars loaded with track maintenance equipment. There were also some beat-up looking hoppers, some formerly covered hoppers, which were fitted with ballast doors on the bottom.

Also seen towards the end of the train was a car, it appeared to be a boxcar or covered hopper with four windows. This car was green and lettered "USDA" and "USDA Inspection" Does anybody know anything about these cars?

Finally, on a recent train maybe the one described above or an another, I saw a beat-up covered hopper still lettered for the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio.

[JoeKoh]

a lot of diffrent power in deshler used on Csx rails saturday and met some nice people from all over as usual.
stay safe
Joe

[espeefoamer]

Saw a NS high hood SD40,straight,not dash2,on the Swift train.(roadrailer).This unit is over 30 years old,so it was unusual to seeit in this service.[:)]

[Anonymous]

Was at a funeral last week in Stone Mountain, Georgia, right next to the CSX tracks. I watched an intermodal go barrelling by followed minutes later by some CSX VIP (one locomotive, one odd looking passenger car, and a company observation car. ) Just engrave my headstone with the words "Just make sure I can see the trains go by...:

Erik

[mudchicken]

Jim:

Close enuf!!!....They are on the west leg of the Pueblo Army Depot Wye at Avondale, CO.....the test track is 10 miles to the north, passing throiugh the Pueblo Chemical Depot to get there. This is on the joint UPRR/BNSF (MoP/ATSF) main line between Pueblo and NA Junction near where US-50 & CO-96 split to take opposite sides of the Arkansas River (MoP=north/ATSF=South)....They (SD-70 ACe's) do not sound very EMD 2-Cyclelike at idle RPM!...The units are GM-70, GM-71 and EMD9041 plus Dynamometer Car EMDX-3...they are apparently lined-up to go west or north ...for testing on the Moffat Tunnel line while it's closed for tunnel track rehab work?)....wish I'd passed by about an hour sooner, darned Mr. Sun![swg][swg][swg]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken




Just started on my long trip home at 7pm Friday night when I bumped into these.

UPTRAIN: I know where two of these are !!!(they got dizzy going in circles for almost a month!)

For the rest of the forum, where was mudchicken and what was he looking at Friday night????

[%-)][%-)][%-)]

How about the FRA Test Track in Pueblo?

[mudchicken]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jwaldo

1: A train consisting of 6 locos (UP&SP) and 6 cars.
2: An old ATSF baggage car and vista dome at the back of an Amtrak train.

JWALDO: That was not an old baggage car, it was a generator car (Cummins Diesel powered GenSet) and pressure water tank for the biz car following it. When not attached to varnish, this is how the biz car fleet goes cross country attached to the end of a fast freight train (and Uncle John Santa Fe could move freight faster than Amtrak runs in certain parts of the country)

[mudchicken]

Just started on my long trip home at 7pm Friday night when I bumped into these.

UPTRAIN: I know where two of these are !!!(they got dizzy going in circles for almost a month!) I believe there are about 4 others out there as well in revenue service.

Now that the SD45X-2 (#5740)and the F-38 (#462)are history, anybody know how the former Oakway SD-60 has been mongrelized? (It cannot possibly be a "straight" SD-60 with these folks!)

For the rest of the forum, where was mudchicken and what was he looking at Friday night????

[%-)][%-)][%-)]

[;)][;)]Thanx & a tip of the hardhat to TREE68 for helping out with the posting[;)][;)]

[Anonymous]

1: A train consisting of 6 locos (UP&SP) and 6 cars.
2: An old ATSF baggage car and vista dome at the back of an Amtrak train.

[JoeKoh]

The inside of a railbox high cube boxcar.
stay safe
joe

[mudchicken]

Joe:

Seen NS 9568 on the side of Matt's milk cartons back there? NS 9568 plus another similar NS unit and a CSX GE-unit westbound at La Junta, CO yard last night. Train was a Texas to Denver UPRR trackage rights train waiting at La Junta for Amtrak #4 (EB from Albuquerque, apparently on time) and an EB coal load coming into town from Pueblo on the other main track.

Watching daily EB bare table flatcar moves, (at least 2 per day), between La Junta and Dodge City. One engine plus about a mile long consist of empty flats and spine cars gliding along at 40-50 mph. From a distance, it looks like a light engine move until the trailing cars start popping up above the weeds & fences. For a line they keep talking about selling off, the old ATSF northern route transcon seems quite busy now.

[banghead][banghead][banghead]

[JoeKoh]

A sante fe warbonnet not a bnsf warbonnet and yes mookie and ironhorseman i got pics!
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Guess What [?]

Yelp [:D]

I made another "run" [8D] [;)] [:p]

I saw:

UP 8049
UP 6539

pulling empty coal cars:

ETRX

750993
851046
851042
851006
851013
851093
851092
851034
851071
851001
851108

and bringing up the rear was

SP 299 [:D]

[Anonymous]

Last night i spotted a couple odd ball locos at the east end of UP Global 1, on the bridge over Blue Island ave and Loomis St. The first was a black switcher, MLDX ####, i think, it was too dark out to read. Behind it were a few Central Kansas Railway. The nearby building was blocking those Kansas visitors, so no numbers or model type. It just doesnt make any sense why these little guys were at this yard.

[Anonymous]

Just got back from another "hear train, go see" run.

UP 200 (yes, just one engine)

pulling 11 cars, two of which were:

KCS 172022
KCS 172057

And some idiot in a red pickup went under the gates as they were coming down and they just missed getting him. One of these days someone is going to get smacked doing that. The train with only 11 cars was doing a pretty good speed too.

[corwinda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes
This train had an old Rock Island car, you could clearly see the original colors. Don't remember which RR owns it now.

Most or all of the recognizable ex Rock island cars I've seen are now CNW.


I've been seeing XTTX and JTTX 89 foot flatcars loaded with lumber recently. (southbound out of Eugene OR via Willamette pass.) At least some of them have a small 'do not hump' sticker at one end.

[Anonymous]

Last Saturday I saw a Union Pacific SD70M. It was a flag unit[:D] About thirty minutes before I got there I herd a warbonnet went through still with "Santa Fe" on the side[#dots][#dots] but I missed it :(...

[Anonymous]

I just got back from another "I hear the horn, let's go see the train" trip. [8D]

I was actually mowing the yard and had just stopped to move the truck. I heard the horn and decided to go see. [:D] (Had to hide the mower first.) [:D] And of course Duchess thought she had to go too. [;)] So off we went. [:p]

UP 4224 Flag Unit
CR 5419 (Conrail Blue but not sure if NS or CSX )

ZCAX 91204
NRLX 56001
CN 712158
NOKL 728000
MP 705558
SSW 78922
CNW 71850
SP 656255
CCX 512
SRN 4310
SOO 122741
WP 38568
ALM 841297

This train had an old Rock Island car, you could clearly see the original colors. Don't remember which RR owns it now. I also noticed how many cars in this train seemed to be in very rough and battered condition. Some of the above numbers may not be complete due to the fact that many of the cars were very dirty or had "things" spilled on them.

[Mikeygaw]

saw an NS GP38-2 in yard service

[Mikeygaw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

1872 is a renumbered B40-8 if I'm not mistaken.

it's one of the two... the site i use to look up UP loco's is a little confusing

[UPTRAIN]

dbld1218...............from the post on 3-27..................I think that was the Alstom SD40 rebuild program demonstrator unit........I have seen it once and run it once............I saw one of the ONLY 3 built GP40P-2s for SP in the 70s for commuter service in San Francisco....it is now freshly repainted in UP paint and is numbered 1373....it is ex-SP 3198 the middle unit built of the three.

[UPTRAIN]

1872 is a renumbered B40-8 if I'm not mistaken.

[Mikeygaw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes



NS 8862 (it was in the lead and had the nice sounding horn)
UP 1872

NS 8862 is a C40-9
UP 1872 is a GP38-2

[Mikeygaw]

CSX 560 is an AC4400CW and 8128 is and SD40-2 rebuilt from an SD40

[Anonymous]

I made a trip to Little Rock today and just for fun stopped by the old Union Station. While there a train came by. I was very lucky in that I was just driving through the parking lot and wow, here it came. I bearly got stopped in time to get the notebook out and start writing numbers. [:0] [:p] [:)]


CSX 560
CSX 8128

ATW 80525
EJE 7019 or 7019#
CN 704138
TBOX 665871
CN 413003
CN 413029

Now there are always more cars than I can write down, so I try to get cars other than UP since there are tons of UP here. [:)]

[JoeKoh]

A csx intermodal heading for the east coast with a lot of empty flat and container cars.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

I made another "I hear a train, quick let's go see it" run today. [:D]

Yes Duchess did get to go too. She was a little better this time and I got to write down more numbers. [:p]

The reason I did the fast run to the tracks was I heard the horn and it was a good sounding horn so I wanted to see if it was a UP unit or not.

Here are the results:

NS 8862 (it was in the lead and had the nice sounding horn)
UP 1872

Some of the cars in the consists were:

CRLE 524705

CNW 752593
CNW 156004
CNW 170150
CNW 96090 (I might have missed a number here, I am not sure)
CNW 1640xx (I know I missed a number here)

IMRL 50062 (an EX SOO Car)

CN 712013
CN 712247

RJCM 4502 (My first sighting of a RJ Corman car that I know of seeing [:)] )

[UPTRAIN]

T had a ten unit consist(!!!!!), 4 were SD70M (UP), 2 SD40-2 (UP), GP40-2 (UP), GP60 (UP), SD60M (UP), and a GP30AC (LLPX in UP paint), and YES they were all running!!! I had 80 cars...60 loads and 20 empties...took off like greased lightning!!! Best train ever!!!

[Mikeygaw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rf16a


Can someone tell me what kind of loco the 4801 is?
I'm not too familiar with UP locos.
Thanks.

4801 is a SD70M