Surely not everyone fell off the face of the earth on the same day?
Here’s a few things interesting I’ve seen in the last couple of days:
A Citirail locomotive. Huh?
A loaded grain unit train that usually has three locomotives getting by with only two that were being pushed hard. The bonus for waiting was that the DPU was a CP Rail locomotive, rare in our part of the world.
The subject line for a new topic is limited to 150 characters. Does CandOforPromdresses have to do a rough draft on his and then trim them back?
What have you seen recently in your neck of the woods, (or butt of the prairie(?) if you don’t have woods?)
I don’t know about everybody else, but I managed to grab at some reeds as I went over the edge of the earth… and I am still hanging there.
I figure everybody else is fearing being baned for copyright violation because someone has already used the same two words in the same sequence as someone else last month, and they won’t post any photos because they fear their’s might look too much like what someone else already posted. There just aren’t any photos left that can be taken that have not already been taken.
Citi Corp owns a lot, and I mean a lot of rail equipment, and several fleet of locomotives.
I was surprised you were surprised to see one!
CandOforPromDresses has a lot of issues….spelling and grammar are two of several that include at least one OCD.
And I saw a UP coal train on the FW&D (BNSF) main a few days ago, they are never on this side of town and I wondered why a UP train was on the BN main…they share some stuff here, but not that much!
Well, Just an observationfrom the Back Deck… I seem to feel like BNSF is running 'shorter" Stackers and COFS’s. It seems where they were coming by with for or five headend units, the last couple of weeks it seems they are getting by with a max of three on headends. That’s east and west on the eldorado sub; just the ones I see.
The longer ones still seem to run through Wichita on the ark city sub. Since they announced that partnership with KCS coming off the border, I’ve only seen one train with all KCS units on the head…It might be they do not have that much KCS power coming out of Texas for those sorts of power moves(?).
Through this area Citirail power seems to be few, and far between. Seems of late they have been moving a grain leassor train with FerroMex Power,on last couple of Sundays(?).
The ride to and from work lets me see a lot. Chargers are working most of the regional Amtrak runs out of CUS. Occasional Heritage units and rebuilt AC44C6M’s at 47th Street and Landers on NS. Mostly Dash-9’s and GEVO’s with some Tier 4’s on the east end of the Transcon along I-55.
I know that the FW&D was a BN subsidiary. As such was it just run as part of the bigger railroad? Did it have its own management, home office and locomotive paint scheme?
OK, I found it on Google Maps. A cute little patch of trees. You folks have a low threshold for calling something a forest. [:o)]I love how it’s surrounded with sand dunes that can be seen in satellite images. Bonus- the BNSF runs just past the patch of woods, so I followed the highway 'till I caught a coal train.[8D]
All the pictures of diesels I’ve seen had CB&Q or BN paint schemes with FW&D sublettering.
In Fremont, NE there is a company (Magnus Inc) that has a 50’ box car, no lettering, and a former FW&D caboose (or waycar) in BN paint. All on an isolated section of track. I imagine the box car, spotted at a door, might be used for storage. The caboose (or waycar) just sits forlornly next to the box car.
Last week I saw the CN local out of Council Bluffs with a single KCS engine.