NS pushers heading back to the yard, taken last week right before our big snow storm. If you have any prototype photos you want to share, post away.
I see UP and BN "Push-me/Pull-me" as I like to call them often but never have my camera with me. Both are normally related to the numerious Coal Trains that both roads pull through Denver.
Red Rock: nice B&W shot! I don't see too many black & white photos these days, and yours was a welcome change. Got ny more- I'd love to see 'em posted here! Darren: When I lived in Grand Junction, I'd see coal trains leave eastbound each day, with diesels in the front, middle & rear, all in DPU mode. 6 to 7 AC-type locomotives to lug all that coal over the Rockies to the east.....
It's always interesting to see a view such as this. I look at more than just the engines. For example, the track beyond the power. You can see the grade rising so obviously. Boxcab E50
UP 752 at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri late 2004 This is a big dip! Taken at Cool Junction Road west of Weatherford, Texas on 10x zoom. Where the dips comes back up on the other side is the town of Milsap.
Nice shots guys. Love the bridge shot Lenny. Gabriel cool to see that old MoPac (origanally CRI&P) unit stayed close to home. Do they use helpers on that Texas trackage?
Can't you just feel it... leisurely Saturday afternoon, gorgeous country near Yosemite, Spring in the air, hardly a cloud in the blue sky, and nothing more to do than pick up a single car and trundle it back, long hood forward... And then... this one taken at the Cajon pass last year:
That shot of the track was taken on the UP single line main approximately 40 miles west of Fort Worth, 7-8 miles west of Weatherford. Traffic is mainly HOT intermodals although I did catch a mixed freight while down for christmas. THe east bounds go thru here a little slower...slowing down going into weatherford and fort worth. However, westbounds are usually at track speed, 70 I think. I saw a yellow flag (slow order? 30MPH?) right at one of the grade crossings while I was in town. At night, you can hear the trains whistling the crossings from 4 or 5 miles away. NOTE: I miss living in the country. Awesome long hood forward shot...local does that here everyday! Pretty neat to see the engineer seating facing forward and operating from his mirror instead of turning around. I think hes retireing though, UP has an opening for trainservice where this local originates.
The GSMR engineer is returning to GP-7, number 777, after stopping to give the passengers and crew a lunch break alongside the Nantahola River,in the western part of North Carolina.
Hmm... which one? Coal loads exit Tunnel 23? Or coal loads at East Portal siding in a blinding blizzard? Or BNSF's Laurel-Denver manifest at Louisville, CO?
More choices: Coal loads meet empties at West Plain? Or coal loads west of Rollinsville, CO? Or BNSF's Stockton-Denver manifest at Tunnel 2?
