Recently I Saw . . . . . . .

[Anonymous]

KCS #4001 remote controlled

recently UP had a car jump track and tore up the crossties realy bad but then the derailed car took out 1 of the control boxes and defect detector on the side
of the tracks i wander if the detector saw this comin or was it caught by suprise
[:0][:0][:0][xx(] what ever the case why hasnt up repaird it yet
and KCS has some bad tacks in Shreveport as well every time it rain they flood out how hard could it be to redo the road bed theres two main tracks the other is in need of leveling but is about 12-16 inches higher than the other track
they could at least put gravel down and raise the tracks about 3 inches
doble stacks clear this bridge by a foot[?]

[ironhorseman]

Busy (and windy) day yesterday. Out runnin' stopped on the levy to take a break. Finshed stretching, heard a train comin', thought I'd wait. 10 engines on the lead. The first 4 or 5 were BNSF dash 9 herritage II paint, and then another dash 9, NS. Somewhere in there were 3 SD40-2s: 2 in BNSF orange, 1 in ATSF blue/yellow. The very last one was ATSF red/silver dash 8. WOW! Followed by a consist of 78 cars, mostly well cars, all full, some flat cars had only the trailer chasis, no trailer or container. Kansas City/Chicago bound.

Next, BNSF ripped up a siding track in town. And the "rail-fan-confuser car" is back. It's got a crane with it. Section track is built and set aside ready to be installed. Looks like the crossover track section.

[Anonymous]

Most recently I saw a 4 engine train a cp SD40-2F up AC4400 cp ac4400 and CP sd40-2 first time I ever saw a UP engine in Saskatchewan and trust me thats rare.

[fuzzybroken]

CEFX SD9043MAC #123 as the second unit on a CP train east of Milwaukee depot. Much darker paint scheme than I had expected!!

See some of my other recent train chases at:
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken/TC1.html

Happy railfanning,
-Mark

[tree68]

MoPac hoppers 582756 and 582403 unloading coal at Ft Drum, NY, along with several Soo, HLMX (some marked KCL/KCPL, or something like that), and AEPX hoppers. This doesn't sound like VA/WV coal. Anybody have any idea where it's from, based on the reporting marks?

[Anonymous]

The other day while on the way to work I saw a train with flatcars loaded with Army trucks. They were all in the desert brown paint.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

On Wednesday I saw UP 6938. It wasn't going anywhere. I have a funny feeling I will see it again on Thursday. [}:)] [;)] [:D]

I saw 6938 again this past week. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Tonight at 7 pm on the triple track main running out of North Little Rock to points north I saw:

UP 4295

NS #### Sorry, it was dark and I couldn't get the second unit's number

NS 6598

on a mixed freight. [:)] [8D] [:p]

[Anonymous]

CP train #183 with CEFX 1009, CEFX 123, and CP ???? passing the Grayland Metra station in Chicago. Earlier at work i saw GCFX 3072, a silver SD40 with "Alstom" in big letters on the side. It was the third unit on a UP intermodal.

[JoeKoh]

Matt made a new friend Named Dakota today.And along with all the trains we saw 2 B&O chessie cabooses in Garrett.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Today I saw:

UP 4373 (with a nice sounding horn--see the Humble Pie and Crow thread)

UP 5102 Flag unit.

They were pulling a mixed freight westbound from North Little Rock.

There were a few interesting fallen flags cars being pulled. They are:

CNW 190329
CNW 201576
CNW 435040
NOKL 88244

Who is NOKL [?]

[JoeKoh]

Matt is my good luck charm
2 soo line sd 60ms
a chessie c&o scale test car
and plenty of bnsf for mookie going east and going home
stay safe
Joe

[jimbobob27]

SANTA FE R&S GP60M #121, REPAINTED UNDER CAB WINDOW WITH BNSF

[Anonymous]

Tonight I saw what I thought were 2 N S units. After considerable driving and trying to get another look at them determined they were not NS units but units from a leasing company. One did look like an ex NS unit while the other one had the blue and white of Conrail on it. I just couldn't get close enough to get the correct names or numbers. [:(]

[Anonymous]

The mix of foreign power continues in our area. It is kind of nice to see other power though. When you are used to seeing only "your" local railroad power then see such a mix as now is happening it takes some getting used to. Foreign power used to be an oddity, now it is a daily occurance. [:p]

I have also noticed several ballast trains around here lately. I don't know where they were going. They were yarded when I saw them so I don't know which direction they might have been going. [B)]

[Anonymous]

I just returned from a "I hear a train, quick let's go see it" trip. lol [:D]

Here is what I saw:

UP 6064 Flag unit
UP 6740

FSR 47016
ARMN 972967
ARMN 972986
ARMN 110185
MP 260374
EEC 1407
NS 165471

That was all the numbers I could write down quickly, the dog kept blocking my view. [:(] Will see if she gets to go railfanning with me anymore. [}:)] [:p] [;)]

[Anonymous]

CN TRAINS

[rf16a]

This past Thursday afternoon, 4/1/04, while driving through Woodbury, NJ, I got lucky and saw a train coming up the CSAO line heading toward Camden. Naturally I pulled off the road to watch the train go by.
I got even luckier when I saw what was pulling the train.
The first loco was UP 4801 with a flag. Second unit was NS 8343.
First time I've seen a UP flag unit.
Too bad I didn't have my camera with me.

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

[Anonymous]

Seen bizzare lease untis as of late

DOGGY

[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

[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!!!

[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 [:)] )

[JoeKoh]

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

[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. [:)]

[Mikeygaw]

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

[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

[UPTRAIN]

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

[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.

[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

[Mikeygaw]

saw an NS GP38-2 in yard service