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Posted by Mikeygaw on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 9:21 PM
HLCX SD40M-2's #9029 and 9009 (again)

several Southern Pacific boxcars

an Illinois Terminal hopper

A Lincoln Grain Inc. hopper
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 2:58 PM
SD80MACS, ACe's GEVO's oh my..[^]
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Posted by StillGrande on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 1:03 PM
CSX getting ready this morning for some big time MOW work north of DC near College Park, MD.
They have 4 high side gons full of ties, a Loram ballast cleaning set up, and were bringing in other MOW pieces by flatbed truck this morning to unload near the tracks. They have been doing a lot of work to the line out of Anacostia, driving piles, grading, moved at least one set of crossing gates, replaced a few others, etc. This was the first time I saw all the stuff in one place though.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 12:37 PM
today I saw Q108 and Q164 at Ridgefield Park New Jersey. Q164 was being led by CSXT 8800 still in its original conrail paint.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 12:28 AM
The red Katy Heritage unit, and man, is that sucker RED. [:D]
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Posted by james saunders on Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:47 AM
i saw the tilt train (queensland Australia) with the 1 end of the city of townsiville on it (power car 5403) with decals removed on the southbound tilt

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Posted by fuzzybroken on Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:19 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by rgroeling

Ex- Soo line (still in Soo line paint) SD50 or SD60, I was too far away to tell.
Well, they never had any '50s, so that leaves... What paint scheme was it in, BTW?

Yesterday I spotted CP 4524 hiding by the Muskego Yard office in Milwaukee, my second sighting of a "flare 38-2" since they were delivered to the CP! My picture of CP 4523
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:09 PM
CSX SD40-2 #8093 and C40-8 #7518 pulling a mixed freight

NS C40-9W's #9305 and 9054

HLCX SD40M-2's #9009 and 9029

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:04 PM
Ex- Soo line (still in Soo line paint) SD50 or SD60, I was too far away to tell.
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:11 PM
CSX C40-8W #7874 and HLCX SD40-2 #7128
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Monday, September 19, 2005 5:21 PM
light power move consisting of CSX SD70Mac #4761, UP SD70M #4853, and CSX C40-8 #7527
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Posted by spbed on Monday, September 19, 2005 8:41 AM
A long DOD train passing by going WB @ Daggett & me wondering how much of my tax dollars was represented in all the equipment I saw on that train. From Bradleys to APC to Trucks to Hummers. I would say by the way the equipment was painted the equipment was destined for the desert somewhere.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Monday, September 19, 2005 8:36 AM
THis morning on the BNSF[ft.Scott Sub] at Cherokee,Ks. an SP unit 9243..Was still "unstickered", butr someone had shot a black paint panel over the Souther Pacific name obliterating all but the top of the Speed Lettering.. Could not tell what the unit was specifically, was stuck back in traffic..

 

 


 

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Posted by oskar on Sunday, September 18, 2005 11:11 AM
a chessie hopper car still marked as B&O




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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:16 PM
A half dozen CP Rail grain hoppers in Sioux Falls, S.D. We rarely see anything from CP. These were the "fat" ones, shaped like a beer can.

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Posted by Mikeygaw on Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:19 PM
CSX SD80MAC #812

NS SD60M #6783 still in Conrail paint
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Posted by oskar on Sunday, September 11, 2005 6:16 PM
a CSX SD70ACe and on NS train 191 every engine had 4 axels and each one came from a different company from it current owner they were CR,SOU,CR.



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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, September 11, 2005 4:00 PM
csx making a special delivery through deshler.a conrailunit 8499(renumbered) was on the point
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Posted by oskar on Saturday, September 10, 2005 3:46 PM
today(saturday) I saw Q693 which had 2 SD70's one of then was a CR SD70 White Nose leading 2 CofG(Central of Georgia) U boauts a car seperated both engines

Ex. CSX 751,CR 781, 1 car ,CG 3919, 1 car, CG 3909 25 cars

I do not know where these engines are going I will check if they are in Augusta Yard tommow

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PS I did not have a camera
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Friday, September 9, 2005 8:10 PM
CSX AC4400CW #599, CSX AC6000CW #689, and NS GP38-2 #5279 still in CR paint on a mixed freight with a total of 11 cars.
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Friday, September 9, 2005 12:57 AM
A derailed car getting its wheels put back in the right places (I think that's what it was anyways.. six guys walking around in bright orange vests).

Two locomotives, owned by the same railroad, with the same number, in the same consist!

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Posted by fuzzybroken on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 10:42 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by bbrant

Saw the following today in Pittsburgh


-- A CN unit in some type of gray paint scheme





I have been seeing a lot of older power painted in gray and stenciled WC. Someone said those were wrent a wrecks leased to CN and labeled for WC. After seeing some of them I think CN would have been better off sticking with the original WC power. WC power looked like it was much better taken care of than the gray units.

Those were actually ex-CN units owned by Alstom, before CN bought them for WC... so they're units back on "home" rails... sorta...

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Posted by fuzzybroken on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 10:37 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

WCtransfer, where abouts did you see the New Mexico Bi-level car thingie? I know they came though Milwaukee on the UP, and I'm just wondering where they've been headed.

Noah
I don't know where WCtransfer saw his, but the ones I saw were on the CP. They came from Thunder Bay, ON and are headed for New Mexico! Prolly got interchanged to BNSF in Chicago.

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Posted by oskar on Monday, September 5, 2005 5:19 PM
lets see........a patched SP,HATX ex SP,2 NS's leading a CSX coal train,a LMS nee CR toasting(on fire),my first CSX SD70ACe leading a train,CR ballast express engine all in Folkston.




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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 2, 2005 11:40 PM
A photo from Otto Perry, that has a misprint, it is of a UP 3-12-2. Here it is no joke.http://photoswest.org:8080/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?fullRecord+24205+594+18842+12+0
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 2, 2005 11:33 PM
Two newly painted Central Oregan & Pacific RR locos numbered 4073 and 4074 (SD40s). [:D] [:D] [:D] They were very nice looking with a red and white paint scheme. [^] [:)]

I also saw a Duck Duck Goose car tonight, it was RRLX 7064. [;)]
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Posted by mustanggt on Friday, September 2, 2005 8:39 AM
Seen in Orlando.......
2 CP rail dash 9's[:D]
a rock island blue covered hopper (really faded)
several auto racks
Three or four CSX Geeps.
A Conrail SW

And a question....
Is it usual for Canadian engines to come this far south?
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Posted by Mikeygaw on Thursday, September 1, 2005 10:01 PM
a rather dirty CSX AC4400CW #48 and CSX SD70Mac #4777

3 Chessie hoppers
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:18 PM
Two Brand-new CSX GEVO's and the SD70ACe[^]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:55 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by bbrant

Saw the following today in Pittsburgh


-- A CN unit in some type of gray paint scheme





I have been seeing a lot of older power painted in gray and stenciled WC. Someone said those were wrent a wrecks leased to CN and labeled for WC. After seeing some of them I think CN would have been better off sticking with the original WC power. WC power looked like it was much better taken care of than the gray units.

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