Foreign power on the UP Overland Route

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I have noticed a lot of Foreign power on the UP Overland route in the last 2 weeks or so. (BNSF, Conrail, CSX, NS, CN) All through the summer all I saw was Armor yellow UP units. Now all of a sudden it seems like every train has at least one foreign unit. Anybody have some insite on this? Or am I the only one that noticed this?

Foreign power on the UP Overland Route passes under the BNSF Peevine, East of Fulton, Illinois

Later Bill

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Its a seasonal thing, this is peak season for the western roads so at this time of year they will have more foreign power, which they payoff in the spring and summer.

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For some reason I have also seen probably 3 times more foreign power in the past few months than usual.

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Check my web site below & you can see from last May till now how much foreign power the UPRR is now using vs last spring

http://vgalleries.com/members/railfan1/The+Trainfan.vrg

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same deal on the CN here. tons of foreign poer every where, even leading, they arn’t suposed to but they do it anyway.

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Last week I had to do a doubletake near DC. A CN SD70 leading a couple of leasers (HLCX) on CSX just north of DC pulling a string of autoracks. First CN unit I had ever seen in person, let alone here. We do get the occasional UP and BNSF swap.

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Yeah, for some reason, this is something that gets asked about twice a day.