Bummer for a RailFan

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp

A Southern Pacific locomotive being patch or repainted.

Yes, I know what you mean. I am seeing lots of SP locos still in SP paint but with the UP number patch.

[ericsp]

A Southern Pacific locomotive being patch or repainted.

[Anonymous]

My latest "bummer" is writing down an engine number and forgetting to post about it. I lost the paper with the number. [:(] Now I have found the paper and engine number but don't remember what day I saw it. [:(] [:0] [B)]

Well anyway, I saw UP 5654 pulling a train sometime about a week ago. The horn on it sound like only part of the horn was working. Might have been one of the chimes was stopped up with something. But anyway it sounded really funny and kinda bad.

[Anonymous]

being a long time fan of Conrail

Jim

[athelney]

What did I see today ? -- Zilch - no trains , I decided to check out a new spot - Colebrook on the BC Port sub to Roberts Bank .BC -- Should have seen at least one from the following -- BNSF freight, BNSFcoal train , Amtrak , CP coal train or intermodal ,CN intermodal - but no - not one , stayed for 3 1/2 hours , not even a MOW on the scanner . Ended up watching aircraft landing at Vancouver airport! - pretty sad for a railfan day out!! - maybe tomorrow at my usual spot .

[Anonymous]

Joe [8D]

In baseball a "tie" goes to the "runner". [;)]

I don't think I want to be around to watch a tie at a crossover. [:(]

[JoeKoh]

Csx had to go around a train whose crew died because of the hours of service law.Had fun watching who goes first at the crossovers.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Some of the UP Flag units have a nice sounding horn. [:)]

I have been too busy with work to take time out to chase or watch any trains. [V]

So I guess that is my most recent Bummer experience. [:(]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45

Hey guys, [:)][:D][8D]

Regarding Jhh's story. I'm curious! [;)]

Does anyone know what type of horn the UP typically uses. I know it's not the popular K5La. I've seen pictures of 3 chimers on a lot of the units. I wonder if Jhh heard a K5H or K5LA, both which according to many railfans (yes, me too) have very melodic sounds. CSX and NS use these horns on a lot of their road locomotives and of course, these units have been running on UP's tracks quite a bit in the past 2 years.

Good websites to hear and learn the differences between locomotive horns. On your search engine (I use MSN) type "Five Chime Horn Consultants" and also "Chris' Train Horns". Jhhtrainsplanes if you go to these sights, you might be able to hear what you heard recently.[tup][^]

Hope you enjoy it! Peace out!

UP uses a varity of air horns, but most typically today is the Nathan/Airchime K3LA.

[Anonymous]

You want to hear a real bummer. A couple of months ago a Challenger, that's right, a steam engine challenger, was just twenty miles away from my home and easily viewable, for ten days, and I didn't even know it was there until the day after it left! Oh, by the way, IT WAS RUNNING UNDER IT'S OWN POWER AND WAS FULLY OPERATIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead]

[fuzzybroken]

Well, once again... I forgot a map while chasing MILW 261 into Chicagoland, got lost, and the train disappeared from sight. [:(]

Note to self: remember the map next time!!! [banghead]

-Mark
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[Anonymous]

I was going to see the challanger one day on its UP tour, so I went to the UP Skokie Valley Mainline in Waukegan. It was supposed to run on this line. Me and my family waited and waited, and it never came. I was pretty angry. It was supposed to come through at that time, but I guessed it already passed. Bummer!

[fuzzybroken]

Speaking of CP 2816... I waited for HOURS at Waterford Avenue in Milwaukee, and my girlfriend who was s'posed to come along was MIA... Waterford provided a couple halfway-decent shots, nothing to be excited about. I went down by the depot in Milwaukee, got several decent overhead shots from the 6th street bridge. Next I hurried to Duplainville, where there was a decent-sized group of people gathered -- but Amtrak #8 (Empire Builder) spoiled that one, and there was a collective AAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!! as the 8 passed between the group and 2816.

Well, on to Oconomowoc. I figured that the depot would be a good photo prop, but a street runs in front of both tracks and depot. As 2816 approaches, so does a good-sized truck with a cherry-picker on top. He wasn't turning, so he could have gone thru, but instead he blocked several people's shots... [:(!]

Finally, I decided heck with, might as well head to Portage -- where my camera decided to go to Manual Focus only mode. [banghead] This was solved by turning it off, then back on again. (whew!) I got some great pics in Portage, finally learned to use the auto-bracket, and then wanted one more good shot, but then everybody in the crowd wanted their picture taken with the steam engine, or people would just walk right in front of me with their cameras... [banghead]

Of course, as a bonus to my patience, I got pictures of several SOO/CP engines, as well as a 3-unit set of BNSF SD75Ms!!!

The one thing that I forgot on this trip (and any other of my railfan trips) is a map or atlas of some kind. I know where the railroads go in my head, but I don't know all the roads to get there... Well, there's always hope for tomorrow... MILW 261's in town!!!

Cheers,
-Mark
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[JPowell]

Not having a camera when you get your 1st ride on a GP9 Diesel Engine! That's a deffinate bummer for me :-((( !!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I missed NS train 213 by an hour yesterday and 214 by an hour today, 213 had BNSF SD40-2, ATSF C44-9W, and PRR (CR) C40-8W while 214 had the same power, this time PRR C40-8W, ATSF C44-9W, BNSF SD40-2.

[Anonymous]

Hay dbid1218.
That statement that you made is so DAMN true!
Your post on 03-02-04.
[bow]BNSF RAILROAD[bow]

[Anonymous]

Can't have your cake and eat it at the same time[:(].
[bow]BNSF RAILROAD[bow]

[Anonymous]

Friday morning I had to go to Jury Duty orientation. On the way there I crossed over the UP yard. The Main Street Bridge is within a stone's throw of the wye. Setting on one leg of the why was a UP train waiting for a green light. I quickly wrote down the engine number and put it in the storage box between the two seats of my truck. The only engine pulling this train was a single EMD unit. Funny, you never see a single GE pulling a train as it always takes at least 2 of them. Other single engined trains I have seen lately were powered by EMD also. After Jury Duty I had another appointment. It was a hectic day. Somewhere along the way I managed to lose the slip of paper with the engine number. [:(] I wrote the number down to post it in the "Recently I Saw" thread. Guess that is one post I won't be making. [:(] [V] [:(]

[Anonymous]

Tom, that is a bummer. [V]

Sorry about that. [:(]

I can email you some good pics of the 3985 if you would like to see them. [:)]

Just let me know, as I am only too happy to share them. [;)]

[spankybird]

Yesterday we waited for the CN 2618 as it was going thru Ohio. When it did go by us, as you can see, it was being pulled by a SOO Diesel, and the Steamer was in neutral. No big smoke from the stack, No barking of the cylinders.

Although it was great to see her.




tom

[Anonymous]

Yesterday while on the way to work I had "another" bummer experience. Many times I can see a train on the way to work or on the way home from work. I heard the horn honking yesterday and tried to get close enough in time to get the engine numbers. But between traffic and the train going a little faster than usual I just couldn't get there in time to see the power. [:(] But I can tell you it was a mixed manifest freight.

[miniwyo]

I think I will learn from everyon's mistakes and always keep my camera with me in my truck when i finally get my camera (im buying a really good expensive one because i want to venture into photography as somthing to fall back on inf my Tech THeatre thing doesn't work out)

[espeefoamer]

I have no recollectionof steam.[:(]I saw steam as a baby and a very young child,but it was gone before I was old enough to remember anything.[:(]

[athelney]

Back in the UK at the end of steam in 1968 , at Carnforth in the NW corner , spending a morning on a footbridge photographing the last steam hauled freights . To find when I rewound the film it had not taken on the spool - hence I had a blank film - now had to return home with no steam!!

[refarkas]

Another railfan and I were in a small town in Ontario waiting for a steam excursion pulled by CN 6218. I set my movie camera up to pan a field to get a movie of the steamer as it approached. After waiting around twenty minutes, 6218 came.
Just as I started the movie, a man popped up from his hiding place in the bushes and jogged into town beside the locomotive. I guess he was a true "train chaser."
My friend did know of another spot outside of town where I got a super shot, but I'll remember this for a long time.

[Anonymous]

I was on the way to work today and stopped in KFC for some lunch to take to work. When I came out I heard a train honking for a crossing. I knew I had to hurry to catch it and get the number and railroad for the "Recently I Saw" thread. Naturally I hit EVERY red light between me and it and was even going out of the way to try to get the numbers and such. I could see the smoke rising as I was trying to catch it. I had one last opportunity to catch it. The road bends and the view is blocked by trees before the last crossing so I needed to make this last stoplight with a green to have ANY chance at all. Guess what? NO SUCH LUCK ! [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] The stoplight was red. Above the trees I again see the smoke rising but can't see the train. How does that line go, "Can't see the forest for the trees." Well I couldn't see the train because of the trees, AND catching every light red. Just my luck. [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] Getting through one red light without having to stop would have made all the difference but Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. [:(] [V] [:(] [V] [:(] I get red for EVERY light. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. [8] [B)] [8]

[Anonymous]

The number of the train I tried to get a photo of was UP 4582 and the second unit was a GATX in BN green/black but I couldn't get that number. [:(] [:(!] [V]

[espeefoamer]

The absorbsion of the mighty Southern Pacific into the Big Yellow Sponge.[:0][:(!][:0][:(!][:(!][:0][:(!]

[espeefoamer]

After Railfair 91 in Sacramento,was riding a UP trip to Portola.This was a doubleheader with 844 & 3985. Westbound the diesel was removed at Oroville,running steam only to Sacramento.We waited at the loading area near the South Sac'to. yard.We waited for over an hour. The train was late. It was raining.When the train arrived,there was a GE dash 8 attached.One man remarked,"This is NOT a load of happy campers."[:(!]

[Anonymous]

Going for a walk and not taking your camera and seeing the SW-12OO,s of NB Southern Railway heading west with 6 piggy backs.the former conrail
units are beautiful to hear but to photograph them so..bring camera always and
extra film.

Look Listen and Live

David Brown