Hey everyone. I was leaveing work today and I saw a frieght train sitting on a red light and the lead locomotive. Was a Csx but second in was a CP Rail switch engine and.Third was. A SOO Line engine and forth in was CP rail regular engine Pulling just a mixed frieght but to me it looked well in a way it was cool but also was really weird to see a set like that but unfortanley (SPELLING MAYBE OFF ON THAT). I didn’t get any pictures. It was coming in to the city when I saw it.
A couple weeks ago in Taylor, TX I saw 6 UP C60ACs hooked up together - all engines running - they were in front of a mixed train - maybe 5000 feet long, nothing special. They were not hooked up to the rolling stock however, just to each other. I wonder what UP wanted them to pull? I suppose that combo could pull any train right apart. I got pictures but had to take several to show they were all tied together - they make a front end nearly 500 feet long!
Here in Austin I frequently see three C60s pulling rocks up the MOPAC grade late in the afternoon. Rocks must be a fairly heavy load because the locomotives shoot smoke straight up from their twin stacks and make a ground-shaking rolling thunder you have to experience to believe.
ARE THEY GOING TO MERGE?! THEY ARE ARENT THEY!!! [:-,][:-^]
Shhhhhhhhhhh…[alien]
Actually, the ultimate merger is imminent, based on a ten-unit consist I saw on UP Thursday in (and on both sides of) Cheyenne: included were three or four BNSF units (one was green-and cream), and a KCS SD70-family unit in gray. This was a manifest train, and didn’t really need all that power.
My guess is that the train you saw was a southbound departing Milwaukee between 8-11am. I do not remember the train number, but the train that departs Milwaukee around that time every day frequently has unusual combinations of motive power. The reason being is that this train does the power transfers between Minneapolis and Chicago.