Take a break!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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All the techno items hard on your brain?

Take a break into sheer nothingness and travel with me!

We will take you on a weekend journey into what was in the Lincoln area over this last weekend!

BNSF must have been on vacation again on Sat. I sat for four hours and only saw a few coal trains and one or two freights. Maybe they were on E-Bay buying grain cars?

Sunday was better.

But what I saw on both days may interest you, or may not.

#2549 - CN ( a Dash 9)

FURX coal cars with a hole drilled in one of the ends - 925110 series -
round cylinder holes - like you would take a long pipe and put thru there and hang them up to dry? (Well, women think in terms of household chores!)

Conrail engine #4442 - GP 40 (according to my roster)

Conrail #5402 - (didn’t look this one up)

(I can’t read my notes very well, but think I saw #255 - Montana Rail)

Then the usual BNSF along with - #338 - GP60, #2800 and #2858 - GP 39, #6199 SD9, #2701 - GP39, #3648 - SW10, #3402 - SW15, #3821 - SD7, #3019 - GP40, #2512 - GP35, and #2739 - GP 39. (Can you tell the driver bought me some new binoculars?)

I can practically see Mudchicken in Colorado…

OK - back to the brain busters!

Mookie

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Mookie, sounds like a very interesting train watching time yesterday! Hope you can’t
see all the way to Louisville with those binoculars: we just might be in trouble!!
(ha ha, lol) [angel]

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She couldn’t see all the way in to Colorado, the asparagus plants were too high![:D][:D][:D]

Or was it all that corn inbetween?

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SD-9s !!! Cool locomotive !!!thought they were all gone. OK I’ll take a break, sometimes I can’t see the forest through the trees. I havn’t been train watching for fun , for a long long time. I’m coming to Colorado in 2 weeks MC. going to Monte Vista, Alamosa etc… for a side job on an SW-8
Randy

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What was the CN unit up too? Your located down in Nebraska area arn’t you ? Seems like they’ve got away from us up here in Canada !!

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Mook, you may not have the latest zoot techno mondo stuff, but u ask the coolest questions, really. The question about the keys, I would’t have thought of that in a million years !![8D]

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Don’t forget, the Canadian National runs to Council Bluffs/Omaha. So a CN unit in Lincoln isn’t too far from home rails.

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I have seen several CN units go through here. Also NS and a few KCS and UP’s - over the BNSF lines. UP still has some tracks, but they are becoming quite scarce here in Lincoln. It was on a coal train - as are most of them - heading west.

Mook

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simple mind, simple questions.

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I’m also…(distracted)…easily entertained!