Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[Anonymous]

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....

Erik

[corwinda]

QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered
UP 4121, type unknown,

That's an SD70M (not an AC unit)

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

TODAY WE SEEN 4 CSX ex CR SD-50's leaving jackson ville Fla bound for new orleans LA
[8D]

[Anonymous]

[8D]Iasw 2 FEC locos headed south this morning[8D]

[Anonymous]

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.

[redflasher1]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

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

[tree68]

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.

[Anonymous]

I saw UP

and some UP

and some UP,

Oh, and I saw some UP.

[edblysard]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

[: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]

[JoeKoh]

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

[Anonymous]

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][;)]

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I saw UP flag SD70M 3903 on the Reading line

[Anonymous]

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. [;)] [:)]

[Anonymous]

To Jim
what SLIC meant was a slug has no fuel operated engine just the traction motor
it uses to help move the train B units or power packs do
yard and road slugs use power from a loco to create the traction effort
but you are right ill give you that one [8D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

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. [;)] [:)]

The nice pretty new boxcars are Union Pacific Chilled Express. [;)] [:D]

Here is a link to see one.

http://www.trainweb.org/arkansastrains/railroad/upchilled/ARMN992062/DSC02652.htm

http://www.trainweb.org/arkansastrains/railroad/upchilled/ARMN912011/DSC00720.htm

[Anonymous]

does any body know an 800 PHONE # for UP
this mornin i was watching a west bound up leavin new orleans
there was a car close to the rear that was hotboxin i called CSX but it was off their line i couldnt find a # 4 UP so i emailed them[8D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SLIC

does any body know an 800 PHONE # for UP
this mornin i was watching a west bound up leavin new orleans
there was a car close to the rear that was hotboxin i called CSX but it was off their line i couldnt find a # 4 UP so i emailed them[8D]

To report UP railroad emergencies call ;

1-888-877-7267

This is the number listed on their home page.

[JoeKoh]

Carl
the # should be on their website.I always have csx and ns in our van and my truck.
Today (see any power is good power?thread) and
a north bound csx with auto racks turning east to go to fostoria
a northbound mixed freight turning west to go to Defiance
and an eastbound turning north to go to Toledo.
I love Deshler
stay safe
Joe

[northwesterner]

This a.m. at Buffalo Grove, IL. Northbound 5 engines (3 CN GE, 1 CN EMD, 1 IC EMD) pulling mixed consist of box cars. covered hoppers, and a lot of lumber racks, all empty.

[Anonymous]

This past weekend I saw Morristown and Erie Alco C-424 sitting at the old Kennett Square PA. train station waiting for its next run. There was a wire running to the loco from the station.

[mudchicken]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by SLIC

does any body know an 800 PHONE # for UP
this mornin i was watching a west bound up leavin new orleans
there was a car close to the rear that was hotboxin i called CSX but it was off their line i couldnt find a # 4 UP so i emailed them[8D]

To report UP railroad emergencies call ;

1-888-877-7267

This is the number listed on their home page.

At ANY Union Pacific at-grade crossing, there should be a small (4 x 6) bright blue sign with white lettering with the "800- PANIC" number on it. Most railroads have something similar with the DOT# and the PANIC number on it at the crossing. If there is a signal bungalow/ doghouse at the crossing, the numbers are stencilled there as well......

[Anonymous]

Early this afternoon while in downtown North Little Rock and crossing over the Main Street bridge I saw a green/white BN unit (not a wide nose) and behind it was a Blue/Yellow SF unit. BNSF has trackage rights on some UP track thanks to the UP SP merger. I am not sure how many trains BNSF run through here. I see one occassionally. This train had just crossed over the Bearing Cross bridge (the railroad bridge between North Little Rock and Little Rock) and was heading North.

Maybe some of the BNSF people can give us more info on the number of train BNSF run through here now thanks to the merger. I know BNSF has a couple of engines in the industrial park/port area. When they first introduced service here that had 2 freshly painted engines that looked very nice. After a while those engines were yanked outta here and replaced by something the cat dragged in. [}:)] [;)] [8D]

[kevdoggupj]

While at lunch in Harrisburg, PA.....I saw 3 NS trains. One Intermodal moving westboud, with 3 wide body GEs, 2 NS, one Conrail. 10 minutes later on the same track a mixed freight with 2 Dash 9's pulled up past the old PRR passenger station and stopped while a South bound coal train with 2 Dash 9's and a high nose EMD blew through town. There was also an Amtrak P42 # 19 sitting at the passenger station w/ three coaches in tow. Not bad for a half hour walk at lunch

[JoeKoh]

hopefully alot of traffic and we get to meet Nora and her family in Fostoria.
Stay Safe
Joe