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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:50 PM
Today on the way home from church I was privileged to see a UP train with a an assortment of fallen flag equipment (the privilege was not seeing UP but the variety of fallen flag equipment). [}:)]

Engines (all U P)

6608
7324
6658
7009
6440

Fallen Flag equipment from the following railroads was seen:

C N W
M P
W P
N W

There were a bunch of new boxcars all painted white and lettered ARMN but having a UP sysmbol on them.

So it was an interesting train to see. [;)] [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:47 AM
Yesterday I saw UP flag SD70M 3903 on the Reading line
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:14 PM
Slic [:p]

A slug has no engine. If it has an engine it is a B unit. A slug is designed to use the extra power that is generated by a host engine. At low speed the powered engine produces more electrical power than it can use. The slug uses this extra electrical power to provide additional traction to start the train moving. The slug will cut out at something like 15 to 20 miles an hours. As the train gains speed it needs the power once provided to the slug, therefore the slug has no power, and will produce no more traction until the train once again feeds power to the slug.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:02 PM
Literally just hours ago I saw BNSF GP60M #120, which is the VERY LAST BNSF GP60M that is still in FULL Santa Fe colors, not even BNSF sublettering. Man it was a blast from the past, that same train also had 2 other Santa Fe Warbonnets out of 4 units. [:)][:D][8D][;)]
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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:52 PM
More ns mow gons filled with pre made track and powder river coal for detroit edison pulled by a bn sd 70 mac and a bnsf dash 9.
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:23 PM
[:X]last night i saw 4 trains goin south all were CSX units
and in other news i saw SLIC in his scooby doo boxers[:D][:I][8)] hes gonna die when he sees this[8D][:X][:X]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:36 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by redflasher


From my office window...

I see an old BN slug #1701 behind 2 engines traveling back and forth on the Wayzata BNSF line almost everyday from my office window. It doesn't sound like it is operating just being hauled along.



Hello [:)]

Slugs are unpowered and receive their "power" from another engine. The locomotives at low speed produce more electrical power than they themselves can use. The slug uses the extra power to provide traction at low speeds to help start the train moving. Since they don't have an engine themselves they will not produce an engine noise.
ACTUALLY some do have engines like BNSF ex ATSF & ex BN ther just like
regular locos but without cabs and controls like E or F 7-9's B units allthough some like CSX ,CR, & some older UP & SP are just traction motors or road slugs
UP KCS MP & CR had yard slugs KCS & UP still use them in hump yards
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Posted by edblysard on Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:49 AM
Hey muddy,
They have one of your stealth units working as hump yard power in Englewood, unit Y116, a B-23 also, sandwiched between two SD40-2s.
Solid battleship grey, with red reporting marks and a red stripe around the sill.
The lead and trailing units are in UPs yellow peril paint, but, so dirty they may as well be painted grey also.
In fact, they are so dirty, you see the middle units new scotch brite stripe and numbers before you see the lead unit.!

Stay Frosty,
Ed

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 28, 2004 1:13 AM
I saw UP

and some UP

and some UP,

Oh, and I saw some UP.
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, February 27, 2004 2:11 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

Union Pacific Y105 and Y120 (remote control engines, ex -MoP B23-7m's) in grey stealth paint with red lettering at North Yard/ Denver....couldn't they paint these things puke pink, safety firetruck yellow or some other unusual color so that folks might see them running in the yards and know they are unmanned (in addition to the bazillion signs?)[%-)][%-)]


Probably because the accident rate would buck what would seem to be the obvious result and go up. Since it's "obvious" that it's an RC loco, it is "obviously" the cause of the accident. Especially if the public is somehow involved. Not that I'm taking a stand on RC. The same thing would probably happen with a manned loco, if word got out that it was somehow "different" than other locos and might pose a safety hazard.

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:59 PM
Union Pacific Y105 and Y120 (remote control engines, ex -MoP B23-7m's) in grey stealth paint with red lettering at North Yard/ Denver....couldn't they paint these things puke pink, safety firetruck yellow or some other unusual color so that folks might see them running in the yards and know they are unmanned (in addition to the bazillion signs?)[%-)][%-)]
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 9:31 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by redflasher


From my office window...

I see an old BN slug #1701 behind 2 engines traveling back and forth on the Wayzata BNSF line almost everyday from my office window. It doesn't sound like it is operating just being hauled along.



Hello [:)]

Slugs are unpowered and receive their "power" from another engine. The locomotives at low speed produce more electrical power than they themselves can use. The slug uses the extra power to provide traction at low speeds to help start the train moving. Since they don't have an engine themselves they will not produce an engine noise.
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Posted by redflasher1 on Friday, February 27, 2004 8:54 AM

From my office window...

I see an old BN slug #1701 behind 2 engines traveling back and forth on the Wayzata BNSF line almost everyday from my office window. It doesn't sound like it is operating just being hauled along.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:24 PM
Just the other night in the yard in Danville IL, on the CSX mainline between Chicago and Evansville, IN i saw a unit coal train pulled by one NS, one Conrail, one SOO, and two CP (one in an older orange paint scheme). I was busy switching, so i didn't have time to determine the engine types, but I think they were all six axles.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:15 PM
[8D]Iasw 2 FEC locos headed south this morning[8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:23 PM
TODAY WE SEEN 4 CSX ex CR SD-50's leaving jackson ville Fla bound for new orleans LA
[8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:50 PM
Thanks. The photos I have of it aren't good enough to let me zoom in close enough to read the nomenclature... which (I assume) are on the side of the cab. I appreciate the ID, tho... now I can look it up in my books.

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Posted by corwinda on Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:21 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered
UP 4121, type unknown,


That's an SD70M (not an AC unit)
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:51 AM
Last October, my wife called me from her school, which is near the NS main line from Birmingham, Alabama, to Macon, Georgia. She said there were a "couple of weird looking locomotives parked outside her school just sitting there." (I have trained her to accept my eccentricities with a certain amount of tolerance. She no longer calls them "choo choos".) I grabbed my camera and caught NS train 198A3 doing a crew change. The "weird looking locomotives" were BNSF #4104, a Dash 9-44CW (I can read the type locomotive off the side), and UP 4121, type unknown, although I think it's an SD something or other MAC. Hidden behind those two was NS's contribution to the mix, apocalyptically numbered 9666. I got to talk briefly to the outgoing conductor, who said "the BNSF engine was real pretty and clean; really rode well."

If I can ever figure out how to post pictures from my discs, I'll be happy to; I also have shots of the AOE going through Columbus, Georgia last summer in broad daylight. That started off a high speed train chase into Alabama which the AOE won....

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:03 AM
2 cranes a hopper full of premade track sections and a mow track machine as I went to work last night got pics this morning.
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, February 22, 2004 6:13 AM
A sperry railtruck in a local hotel parking lot while going to the store.Matt and I will find something Im sure while mamma goes to a freinds babyshower.
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by METRO on Saturday, February 21, 2004 3:04 AM
I saw something kinda funny yesterday, the yard crew over in the valley in Milwaukee was kicking around with a CP Dash-9 and a CSX in the Stealth paint. These two units have been complimenting the usual line of Bandit painted ex-Milwaukee Road switchers. One of the old bandits was actually double-banded with the SOO over the old Milwuakee angle box and a CP and number painted over the SOO
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Posted by AlcoRS11Nut on Friday, February 20, 2004 7:39 PM
A SP & CNW AC4400CW in their original paint.

I love the smell of ALCo smoke in the Morning. "Long live the 251!!!" I miss the GBW and my favorite uncle is Uncle Pete. Uncle Pete eats Space Noodles for breakfast.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 20, 2004 6:45 PM
Well about a month ago i saw UP 3300 "United Way" First time i ever saw it, so i chased it from West Chicago to Rochelle. Pulled in to the RR park 10 minutes before the train. Lucky for me it was held just east of town. Really cold day but it was worth it.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 20, 2004 10:24 AM
2 GP-15's on the NEC running backwards. 1 NS and 1 Conrail. They were pulling up to the Wilmington Amtrak Station and headed north. A Speta Commuter and an Amtrak AEM-7 train passed them by - heading south.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:48 PM
LAST WEEK i got some pics of a PRR GG1 and UP 4018 Big boy at the age of
steam mueseum in Dallas Tx theres also A UP DD40X also there
was an ole FRISCO steam loco with cars there [8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:06 PM
OK, I don't know who did it, well yes I really do--God. We now have about 3 inches of snow on top of some ice/sleet. As it was starting I was making a desperate run for dog food. I saw a 4 unit lash up of UP engines. The first 3 were GEs and the fourth was an EMD. I got the number of the last engine, I couldn't get close enought to get the other numbers because of the weather and I was getting ready to turn. I made a mental note of the engine number. I somewhere lost the mental note. Problem with mental notes is they can be hard to find. I want to say it was 7129 but don't hold me to it. [B)]
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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:56 PM
Lots of trains but something i dont want to see again!
little kids not in their carseats.I know grandma and grandpa want to show the kids the trains but the kids need to be in the carseats if they are driving around town.
stay safe
joe

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:20 AM
Yesterday I saw an HLCX MPI painted SD40M-2 a UP SD40-2 and a UP flag SD70M.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:20 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Doggy

I SAW THE AMERICAN OREINT EXPRESS IN SEATTLE THIS SUMMER THAT WAS COOL



Some years ago they came through Little Rock on the way to Branson, Missouri. The old White River line is an ex MO Pac (UP) rail line that runs from around Newport, Arkansas through Branson and on to Kansas City. The UP sold that line to a railroad called Missouri and North Arkansas (I think that was the name). I am not sure if the M & NA still own it or not. I railfanned it late this last summer and saw UP engines on that line. I am not sure of the current status of it or what is going on with it. This is the line that the tourist railroad Branson Scenic uses also.

The AOE became stuck behind a derailed emply coal train and they had to bus the passengers to Branson. I believe this was a Dallas to Branson round trip. They did stop in Little Rock and I went down to see it. This was before I began taking pics of the trains. Well one of these days I might get another chance to see it and I will take pics of it then.

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