Trainwatching Thread

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JoeKoh

Member since
April 2003
From: Defiance Ohio
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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, January 1, 2004 10:42 AM

well on csx we found
defiance
eastbound up power
westbound csx power
eastbound bnsf power powder river coal for detroit edison
holgate
a west bound csx engine and hclx engine thats it
deshler
westbound bnsf powder river train with empties.
five ges one sd40-2 and a cefx buissness car between the first 2 engines
and a northbound csx turned on the wye to go eastbound
and met a father and son from New Jersey[:)]
stay safe
Joe

Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").

techguy57

Member since
August 2003
From: NW Chicago
591 posts

Posted by techguy57 on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 5:17 PM

Didn't want this to die yet.

Monday I saw 3 Gp-40son the same manifest train:
A regular UP, a UPY in SP paint and a UPY in DRGW paint. Pictures to be posted on my new website soon.

Mike

techguy "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you suck forever." - Anonymous

Nora

Member since
July 2003
From: US
386 posts

Posted by Nora on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 6:06 PM

On Monday I saw an engine (GP9?) with all the doors along the side opened up so that I could see the "guts." It was the one at the top right of this web page (no. 663): http://cqpa.steelvalleywebdesign.com/gp9.htm I thought it was pretty neat to see and I went back by it a second time after my 2 year old woke up. He said "Oh! A engine! Wow!" [:D]

Also this week, I saw some old hopper cars that still said "Penn Central" on them. They were a truly foul sea green color. [xx(]

--Nora

espeefoamer

Member since
November 2003
From: West Coast
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Posted by espeefoamer on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 6:34 PM

Saw the san Diegan coming through Fullerton with 3 Funits[:p]...Oh,wait,that was in 1972! At least I see plenty of units in Santa Fe blue&yellow.[:)]

Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool.

Anonymous

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April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 6:45 PM

I did NOT see the MRRer boxcar because I did NOT go trainwatching, so I did NOT get any photos!!!

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BNSFNUT

Member since
January 2001
From: US
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 9:01 PM

After spending 3 hrs and not seeing a thing I stoped by the NS Binghanton NY yard FRI (1/2/04) when I had about 20 min to kill. It made up for the last time
I saw 41T with CN power recrewing, a NS/CP intermodel with 2 NS units waiting to cross over and go north on the CP, the local was working the yard and when it moved west I say a BNSF/NS pair of locos on yard 1. About 15 photos later Ieft for my doctors appointment with a big grin.

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

fuzzybroken

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October 2002
From: Milwaukee, WI, US
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:49 PM

Saw a great consist coming out the west end of CP's Muskego Yard in Milwaukee -- CP 6025 (SD40-2 -- Pacman, snoot), UP 4968 (SD70M -- wings, flag, "Building America"), CP 5930 (SD40-2 -- Action red), SOO 6007 and SOO 6014 (SD60s -- red and white).

Happy railfanning!!
-Mark
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

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