We’ll ladies and gentlemen the streak is over.It ended yesterday in Hamler ohio.Csx engine 5114 came through with its train.I got the same engine on the point a week earlier in Deshler.So for the first time I got the same engine leading a diffrent train on diffrent days.[:)]Does this mark the end of taking train pics?[:0] No not by a long shot.[8D]
stay safe
Joe
I see a lot of the same engines over at Roberts Bank all the time.
They are always on either end of 120 or so car CP unit coal trains. Wherever on earth they come from they must just keep the same locos going back and forth all the time.
A little more variety would be nice.
I saw a CP intermodal train the other day and that’s about as much variety as I get…
Usually it’s all CP coal unit trains with CN intermodal, sometimes the odd CN coal and CP intermodal.
On the IC near Thompsonville, Illinois, I’d see all the same engines on trains there. They may have been assigned to the coal loader (a conveyor belt, really) so they’d take trains up and down that area.
I have seen several units multiple times. I Saw GECX 4001 in Feb. 1999, then I Saw it again as UP 7001 in March, 2000, Then again in May 2001, and again in Feb 2002, then again in March 2003 and last time I saw it was in Jan of this year. Other Units I saw multiple times are BNSF 555, 666, and 102, UP 3225, 8202, 8200, 7500, 8500 and even 3300/3301. I have a streak of seein UP 7001. Has anyone else Seen this unit.