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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Just after the first Embargo.Taken into a glaring late afternoon light, from a poor quality scan. A GP35 leads two GP40's, an SD10 and another GP40 Extra East, just past Renslow, Washington:

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  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    A decade back, I caught this visitor ambling through my vicinity. We still see NS units, but they were just about a daily spotting back then. Now not quite so frequently. C40-8W #8425 leaving Whitefish, Montana:

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  3. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Here's a few C&NW findings from Cheyenne back before 2006:

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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I would guess that CNW caboose would never return to rails. It probably became soup cans not long after.... :(
     
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  5. HemiAdda2d

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  6. BoxcabE50

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    That is a bit surprising. In that first photo it had obviously been in some sort of minor tangle. And the caboose era was essentially over. Is there anything special about it, to merit them keeping her around?
     
  7. BNSF FAN

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    Jackson MS - June 13, 2020

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  8. Philip H

    Philip H TrainBoard Member

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    Seems you and I should meet in the middle somewhere as I'm on the Mississippi coast.
     
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  9. BNSF FAN

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    That would be cool but I am actually in Atlanta and caught this an a few other gems on my way to DFW back on the 13th.

    This was the other end of that train.
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    "The Early Bird Gets the Worm"
    At just past 0600, CP train 498, a Calgary to St. Paul manifest, pauses to make a setout in the former Soo Line yard in Minot, ND on the CP Portal Sub led by CP 7021, the army arid regions heritage unit. One can see the US flag on the rear of the long hood under the radiator flares--the Canada flag is on the opposite side. CP 7013 was midtrain.

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  12. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    DPU, or dead in tow?

    Great catches either way!
    Love those CP "Military" locos!(y)
     
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  13. Kurt Moose

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    CNW 11111 was built in 1966, capacity 88, length 30' 0", width 8' 1", height 6' 11". CNW 11111 caboose series (C&NW series CC165) (CNW 11106-11144, 5 cars owned in this series in June 1995). [source: Freight Car Situation Report, June 1995, page 2. Courtesy of Chicago and North Western Final Freight Car Roster, The Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Library of Congress catalog card number 98-073877, 1999, page 225.]

    The "Five Aces"(y)

    She's pretty popular too, Athearn even made it in N-scale!
     
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    A trio of ATSF GE U30CG locos heads out onto the bridge across the Mississippi River at Ft. Madison IA in 1980.

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    Half of an entire production run in a single picture
     
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  16. BNSF FAN

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    Ah, a 2 for 1 special! Great catches and shots sir.(y)(y)
     
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  17. HemiAdda2d

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    DPU; it was working.
    Here's a former ATSF GP35 I caught at last light on the longest day of the year--nearly 10 PM!

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    Three cabooses with road names beginning with 'M'. Meridian & Bigbee's 207 at Naheola, AL in Februrary 1989, Minnesota Transfer's X12 at the Mid-Continent Raiway Museum at North Freedom, WI in April 1987 and Missouri Pacific's 13736 transfer caboose at NS's Inman Yard in Atlanta, GA in January 1989. That must have been some transfer run! :ROFLMAO:

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  19. BuddyBurton

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    CP 374 at Bettendorf, IA with a SD70ACe-T4 3003 leading.

    Enroute to Kansas City.
    July 1, 2020

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  20. r_i_straw

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    Not a transfer caboose. Those were regular road cabooses that the Mopac made hundreds of and they were seen on almost every Mopac train in the 1980s. Not very common for transfer cabooses. They were classed as and used as road cabooses for most of their service life. The 13xxx nunbering signifies mainline road duty.
     

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