Trainwatching Thread

[ironhorseman]

Noteworthy sightings (this year):
(On a busy fast-moving BNSF main line in Kansas):
A 6-axle switcher (imagine an EMD SW with 6 axles, that's what it looked like)
A Norfolk & Western boxcar
More than one GP30
Two Soo Line SD60s, no other engines, pulling a vehical train.
Several B30-7s (or like it) in blue Santa Fe and also orange BNSF paint
Several U-Boats
Once in a while a CSX loco
More often lately an ex-Conrail SD70
Lot's of NS Dash-9s (run thru power)
A thing with a crane attached to it, it looked like a ramp with a conveyor belt
Various MOW
25th Anniversary Operation Lifesaver loco

Some of this I thought was unusual, but considering everything that comes through here (except the MOW) comes straight out of Kansas City and goes to LA or Texas or vice versa it's not so unusual anymore. It's like the Route 66 of railroads. The Emporia Sub has been called the most heavily saturated line of the BNSF. If anybody has or gets a chance to see the Pentrex video/DVD Goin' To Kansas City you'll see what I see on a daily basis.

For other stuff see my website.

[techguy57]

The local UP yard engine normally parked in Crystal Lake (even though there isn't a yard in Crystal Lake[?]) was out working today which I have to say made me happy!
Its a old Southern Pacific still in the red and black, just renumbered. It had MOW equipment with it as they are doing some track replacement around here.
4 gondolas, including an NS covered gondola and an ancient CNW gondola that looks like its been around for about 75 years. It was very short and squat with two unloading chutes. Hope to get a picture later.

Mike

[Anonymous]

Last week while having some Chinese food in a local restaurant that's across from the tracks I saw CP freight with an SD-45 (I think) that was unusual because it just had the letters "CP" stenciled on with no regular logo on it. It was number 5389. Also on the same train I saw a CP Rail boxcar with the rusty outline of an old D&H logo on it.

[JoeKoh]

last friday in Bryan i saw a lot of ns trains with diffrent power,their own and borrowed from up and bnsf.An amtrak train came flying by and a repainted gp 38-2 with ns colors but a csx builders plate hmmmmm
stay safe
Joe

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

In service on BRC at Clearing: Two LLPX SD38-2's (ex-Reserve Mining) working as hump pushers.
On my ride home from work (Metra Southwest) yesterday, two BNSF SD70MAC's, one in Grinstein green and one in Heritage, on mixed freight (not coal) waiting for clearance to ex-CR main from former CR&I at 43rd St.

[Mookie]

This last weekend - 6 tracks with 4 of them running a loaded coal train, an auto train, and two mixed freights at one time. Also running a lease engine and a UP engine. SD70's, GE's new AC's, two SD60's, a couple of Dash 9's and sometimes a CSX - and an SW10 chugging right along!

Mookie

[Anonymous]

Back in early august I watched at deval crossing in Des Plaines, Ill.

Wisconson Central
CN Dash 9
CN cow calf switchers
2 WC GP 40's
Manifest
Towards Schiller Park Yard

Union Pacific
UP AC4400CW
SP AC4400CW
Coal (Full)
Out of the city on the UP-New Line

Canadian Pacific
Soo SD 50
Coal (Empties)
In to the city on the UP-New Line

[Train Guy 3]

In Altavista, VA this morning at about 730 AM. Ex- Conrail pulling a very ackward looking N&W crane and 2 green N&W boxcars. I didn't catch the engine number but it had been renumbered. On the sides, back, and front conrail had been sprayed over with black paint and actually had N S spayed on very tacky in orange. I new the NS paint shops were behind... I didnt know we were this far behind.

[Anonymous]

I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread for trainwatching, so tell us what you saw, when you saw it, where you stayed at, what loocomotives you saw, and other various stuff.