By about noon they were starting to get the traffic flow back to normal We drove back in to Flag to grab some Arby's at the drive through and eat at a public parking lot near the Amtrak station While having lunch Shaun captured this shot of the conductor riding the front porch through town at about 40 miles per hour! Grabbed this shot of the new H3 paint from the platform of the Amtrak station. We spent the last three hours of the day at a new spot we found near the overpass off of Walnut Canyon Road/Highway 180 just North of I-40. By about 3:00 PM dispatch was starting to get inundated with calls from crews that were about to run out of time. At one point dispatch had no less than 4 trains tied up around West Darling waiting for "dog catch crews" to come in. (Part 3 to follow)
Check the flared '45 in the last shot... Was it MRL or otherwise? Maybe it was BN 7023? An SD40-2 with SD45 long hood?
Hey Hemi! I can't remember the road number on that BN unit, but we looked it up on the current roster sheet we had printed after that train passed and verified it was in fact an SD40-2 that apparently had been rebuilt from an SD45 I think it WAS 7023! Edit: Here's a tighter shot. Mike C PHX [ April 05, 2006, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Family Lines System ]
Can confirm that it is 7023, have a pic of it not posted, and that is the corect unit Love those '45 bodies
Heh heh... Thanks for the offer, I'll take you up on it! I actually caught that engine in Cheyenne a couple years ago.. Too bad they molested the high headlights:
