Hey I was wondering what are some are some of the wiredest trains. Have you ever seen like a track cleaning train with a wired bunch cars and sparks coming out of the sides anything eles wierd about it or another wierd train. [4:-)][4:-)][yeah][yeah]
Huh?
Well what I mean is what is one train that you have seen that you though that. Looked really wired meaning by the a bunch of diffrent loco’s in the front like 2Up loco’s 5 Sp loco’s 3 CNW loco’s or a frieght engine pulling a passenger train or a passenger engine pulling a frieght train you know something like that does that help who ever wrote huh.[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]
It’s not a cleaning machine, it’s a railgrinder. And I got a personal tour of one (Loram RG-8) on Tehachappi back in 91 or 92.
That’s not the weirdest one I’ve seen though. That would be a train I saw going up the Columbia river george in the middle of the night. It was lead by a single GP38-2 followed by an empty well car and a well car with one 20’ container on it. The container had radioactive warning stickers on it and the well car it was on had rotating orange beacon lights on all four corners. And it was only going about 20 mph in a 50 zone. I guess they were slipping some hazmat cargo through there in the middle of the night. The only thing I don’t get is why would they draw attention to it with the lights if they were trying to be stealth?
To warn people? I dont think anyone would beat a train with big flashy scary lights[:I]
Also traveling at night when all the protesters would be tucked into bed and probably an unpublished timetable so by the time they found out about it, it was already shipped.
Gotta be an 8 car intermodal back in 1998 on the UP here. The consist was: 2 Amtrak F40’s, a CNW AC4400CW, an SP SD70M, a Conrail SD40-2, a high nosed NS GP38-2, and a former MP, HATX unit, a GP38-2, and a UP SD40-2 with non-dynamic brakes. THAT my friends was weeeeeeeeeeeeeeird!
This is a train I was on in 1991.I wish someone had been trackside to shoot this,or better yet,take a video.We were travelling from the APPERCO convention in Houston,to New Orleans with our cars attached to the Amtrak Sunset Limited.A westbound SP ballast train had broken down and we had to push it about 10 miles(at 10 MPH!)to the next siding to set it out. From east to west the consist was: 12 ballast hoppers,SP bay window caboose, 1 very dead B36-7,2 F40s,7car Superliner consist,6 assorted private passenger cars,including an ex UP dome diner and several heavyweight obs cars.That was one wild consist[8D]!!!
The caboose was on the locomotive end of the train? That would be something to see!
I think the weirdest train I have ever seen is a SP GP9 pulling a 54’(?) TOFC flatcar with a trailer on it that had its doors opened and boxes had come out. That was back in January 1991.
CN Dash 9, CN SD40u and a black ex PC alco switcher. Another odd locomotive lash up was 1 SD75I CN, 1 Conrail C40-8W, 2 Erie Lackawana F units and a BNSF GP60B. 2 CN Dash 9s, 4 VIA P-42s, UP SD40-2 and those were CN trains.
CP runs some interesting ones too. 2 CP SD40-2, 1 SOO SD60M, 1 Cottonbelt GP, 2 ex Guilford units and a CEFX SD90; 2 CEFX AC4400CW, BNSF “Vomit Bonet”, Furx green and silver SD40 and 2 CP GP9s.