PROTOTYPE Railfan Photos of the Week, April 19th, 2015

Hi all! Hope all is going well. Here's the selections.

Keith with a patchy caboose


jhn_plsn with a BNSF freight


co_riff with a rather unique CSX SD40-2


r_i_straw from New Zealand


YoHo in Jack London Square


and sd90ns with some old Cryogenic reefers

 

I like the street running Yoho posted.

 

So do I -- VERY cool and a great shot. I've been in very few locations with street running and have never been able to catch a train at any of them.

 

A nice variety for sure!

Street running is always interesting - it's not everywhere one can see a train in the middle of the street!

That BNSF freight photo is good with the rock outcrop in the background.

 

jhn_plsn, is that Mormon Rocks in Cajon Pass? Nice work, everyone!

 

if you or anyone else comes to the Chicagoland area to do some railfanning, take a quick side trip to NW Indiana to the city of Michigan City, IN. It's a rather quick drive from Chicago on I-94. Not only will you see street running in Michigan City, but it will be a "fer real" midwest electric interurban line, the NICTD South Shore Line.

Charlie

 

Very similar, but there is a specific area a couple miles northwest of Sullivan's Curve, where this photo was taken, that is referred to as Mormon Rocks. In the Google Earth screen shot you can see "Mormon Rocks"(red "A") along highway 138, but the rocks are actually that cream colored swatch running northwest above it. There are Mormon like rocks scattered here and there and as a kid my brothers and I would climb them when we drove through the area. The black lines are the railroad lines.

Correction, Cajon Junction is actually where the word "Curve" is.

As a side not, we caught 31 trains on this day in Cajon. It was crazy busy.

 

I do too.

However I would be interrested to know when the picture of UP power at Jack London square has been taken. I thought I had been advised that now that railroad line only sees commuter trains and no more UP freights as a by-pass has been completed. De facto, I spent one morning there in september 2010 and hoped to watch freights. However I finished to give up as the only moves were commuter trains (of no interrest for me).

Any input welcome.

Dom