The last few weeks, our local BNSF yard has had a real oversupply of locomotives around. The traffic hasn’t been anything out of the ordinary. We get to see quite a lot of BNSF pumpkins, Cascade green units, and even some (BN)SF blue units. Some nights, it seems there are 4 to 8 extras parked in the yard. Since we’re not exactly in the thick of things as far as freight movement, does anybody have some good thoughts about why we’re hosting so much excess horsepower?
Thats called a slowdown in business. Happening on all the class 1 railroads right now. Lots of trains are being cut off or combined with other trains.
Murphy - Keep all of the ugh orange pumpkins. Send greenies and old SF’s. Will pay postage.
Mookie
Well, 10 SD70ACes that were supposed to go to BNSF ended up in Australia instead. They’re even painted orange!
Yes, I understand that. Why would they decide to park the locomotives in such an out of the way place as eastern S.D.?
Perhaps easy to send them west to PRB if needed or east to Chicago if needed. That plus its out of the way (per your description) so they won’t be in the way of the traffic at hand.
CP has two storage sidings, one N of Woodstock just on the N boundary of Pittock Lake Conservation area—great place to camp; right beside CP main—and another one between Woodstock and Ingersoll;used by CP to store all kinds of cars or locos—reason could very well be it is close enough to major divisional points yet out of the way so as not to get underfoot.
There is also a lot of cancelled shipments being reported in some areas—not sure as to sources but one hears them—
we have seen alot of pumpkins over here on CSX. you guys might get to see some blue soon.
stay safe
joe
Seeing more than our fair share of Black & Blue here in Denver, mostly getting dragged around by pumpkins and their ilk. The last two were on bare-table moves heading south and west sitting on BNSF Coal Siding 2 at South Park Junction (basically east side of I-25 at US-6)
I have seen alot of pumpkins(more than i wanted too) while i was in Tupelo, MS the past week even on locals. I wouldnt complain about greenies and Bluebonnets i would have loved to see them on my trip! I just saw the cream and green 70MAC’s acouple Warbonnets and one BN green SW1500 being transported to Memphis. I got lucky yesterday and by pure luck saw a BN green GP50 on a local.
Speaking from experience - having driven the 400 miles from Souix Falls to Spearfish and back approx 20 times, there is plenty of space to park a LOT of locomotives in South Dakota. Perhaps sheer parking space was the criteria. [;)]
Speaking from experience - having driven the 400 miles from Souix Falls to Spearfish and back approx 20 times, there is plenty of space to park a LOT of locomotives in South Dakota. Perhaps sheer parking space was the criteria. [;)]
Doublestack; I remember going that way when I was going to see relatives out west and I can see A GIANT PARKING LOT out there----SPACE----Yeeeessh