I forget how small these images end up - maybe you can make out the numbers on this shot ...
chad thomas wrote: blhanel wrote:Paging Chad Thomas- get your camera up there pronto and document this for the rest of us!Hi Brian,I was just up there last weekend and I didn't see any changes, but I didn't go to Summit either. The way I understand it they are going to lay 3rd rail up to around Blue Cut next (07'-08') and then there to summit by 2010, but don't hold me to that.
blhanel wrote:Paging Chad Thomas- get your camera up there pronto and document this for the rest of us!
Hi Brian,
I was just up there last weekend and I didn't see any changes, but I didn't go to Summit either. The way I understand it they are going to lay 3rd rail up to around Blue Cut next (07'-08') and then there to summit by 2010, but don't hold me to that.
The Contractor is pulling his last permit from the Forest Service and is scheduled to grade the entire 16 miles this year. The middle section (Cajon and Lytle Creeks) will be off-limits till September due to nesting wildlife.
Here is an interesting consist with three successively-numbered locos in the lead over Cajon Creek (UP does utilize BNSF track now and then) ...
coborn35 wrote:"Turn you on"?
Just a bit of fine-tuning, in my case. I'm always on!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
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Thanks, Chad! I'd heard--and worried--about the fire there; glad the "park" was spared.
I wish there were a way to ship the rainwater that's just going down the gutters here right now.
Actually there was a bit of change, there was a fire around Hill 582. I waould say 20-30 acres worth. It looked like it started down by where the Bee boxes are below #2 track and burned up the back of Hill 582. There is burn all around the hill but the manacured and landscaped area at the top was OK .
Also we have had a dry year and the plants up on 582 need all the water they can get. So if you go up to 582 please take some water for the plants.
Yeah, for the people on the other side of the country.
THE SIGNAL BRIDGES YOU ARE REFERING TO HAVE BEEN THER FOR ALMOST TWO MONTHS AT SUMMIT COLLECTING DUST. THURSDAY A RAIL TRAIN WENT DOWN THE HILL,IT CAME INTO ORO GRANDE ABOUT 6:30 AM AND WAS PUT IN THE SIDING. IT WAS PICKED UP AROUND NOON AND WENT DOWN CAJON. IT HAD TWO DASH-9s FOR POWER. THE RAIL CARS HAD REPORTING MARKS SPSX ALL PAINTED BLACK.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Do you think by end Oct they will be erected?
K. P. Harrier wrote: At the BNSF's Summit, Calif., double crossovers, 8 to 10 cantilever signal bridges have been delivered and are currently all sitting bunched together trackside in preparation for the 16 mile Cajon Pass triple-tracking project coming soon.If the recent, nearby Verdemont to Keenbrook triple-tracking is any indication, the new signal bridges may be transported, assembled, and erected soon at their designated future locations. You may never again be able to see and photograph in Cajon Pass as many signal bridges all together in one place. Visit the place NOW if cantilever signal bridges and Cajon Pass turn you on!If you stay on the public highway, ever present railroad security personnel shouldn't bother you. Also, a mile of night floodlights trackside at Summit is a novelty for visitors.
At the BNSF's Summit, Calif., double crossovers, 8 to 10 cantilever signal bridges have been delivered and are currently all sitting bunched together trackside in preparation for the 16 mile Cajon Pass triple-tracking project coming soon.
If the recent, nearby Verdemont to Keenbrook triple-tracking is any indication, the new signal bridges may be transported, assembled, and erected soon at their designated future locations. You may never again be able to see and photograph in Cajon Pass as many signal bridges all together in one place. Visit the place NOW if cantilever signal bridges and Cajon Pass turn you on!
If you stay on the public highway, ever present railroad security personnel shouldn't bother you. Also, a mile of night floodlights trackside at Summit is a novelty for visitors.
Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.P.’s absolute “theorem” from early, early childhood that he has seen over and over and over again: Those that CAUSE a problem in the first place will act the most violently if questioned or exposed.
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