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Title: |
In The Narrows |
Description: |
NS 7519 booms downgrade through the narrows at Hawstone, PA between Lewistown and Denholm. |
Photo Date: |
6/24/2009 Upload Date: 3/30/2010 11:56:20 PM |
Location: |
Hawstone, PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 7519(ES40DC) |
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271 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Faded Lady |
Description: |
NS 8432 glides down the Juniata River valley through Thompsontown, PA. A signal bridge once spanned the tracks where the antenna now stands in the distance. |
Photo Date: |
6/24/2009 Upload Date: 3/30/2010 11:48:12 PM |
Location: |
Thompsontown Station, PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 8432(C40-8W) |
Views: |
255 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Flying Low |
Description: |
NS 9135 is flying low as it cruises up the valley past the eastward home signals at Hawstone, PA. |
Photo Date: |
6/24/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:01:03 AM |
Location: |
Hawstone, PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 9135(C40-9W) |
Views: |
230 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ramrods |
Description: |
NS 3351 helper set gives NS 9395 a boost into the mountain grade. |
Photo Date: |
6/25/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:22:39 AM |
Location: |
Altoona(CP Slope), PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 3351(SD40-2) |
Views: |
249 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NS 9335 |
Description: |
NS 2652 and 9335 bring ore loads east! Until the mid-90s, and typical during PRR/PC/early CR days, iron ore still ran west frequently when the mills were still thriving. As many as five or six loaded trains a day headed inland from the ports of Philadelphia, Fairless or Baltimore when ships arrived; with 150-220 car empties returning to be loaded - often jenny hoppers with their machine gun-like cadence over the rail joints. Nowadays, like the economy in general, everything seems backwards. Old "naught" track doesnt seem long for existence given the accumulating rust. |
Photo Date: |
6/25/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:37:43 AM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 9335(C40-9W) |
Views: |
225 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Beginning the assault |
Description: |
NS 9395 with a slab train begins the assault upon the grade to Gallitzin as it passes Slope interlocking at the west end of Altoona. |
Photo Date: |
6/25/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:09:56 AM |
Location: |
Altoona(CP Slope), PA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 9395(C40-9W) |
Views: |
291 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CSX 439 |
Description: |
CSX 439 leads a westbound manifest through Deshler, OH past the former B&O Dispatchers Office. Back in the late 50s, TRAINS Magazine did a great article about the dispatchers job here, that controlled a lengthy stretch of the north-south line from Toledo. |
Photo Date: |
6/26/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:53:27 AM |
Location: |
Deshler, OH |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 439(AC44CW) |
Views: |
318 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CSX 7725 |
Description: |
CSX 7725 leads a southbound manifest out of Deshler, OH past the truly classic cantilever supporting equally classic CPLs. These near relics from another era recall a time when every road had its own unique "flavor" in the manner it kept its plant (signal systems, communications, depots, etc.), ran its traffic and maintained its power. Enjoy them while ya can! |
Photo Date: |
6/26/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:01:13 AM |
Location: |
Deshler, OH |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 7725(C40-8W) |
Views: |
271 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Sandhills Meet |
Description: |
BNSF 5745 has just met a westbound empty as its DPU unit passes the loaded outfit near Antioch, NE. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:43:59 PM |
Location: |
Antioch, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5745(ES44AC) BNSF 5844(ES44AC) |
Views: |
474 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BNSF 5745 |
Description: |
BNSF 5745 cants to a curve near Ellsworth, NE bringing Powder River basin coal east on BNSFs Sandhills Sub. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 11:47:51 AM |
Location: |
Ellsworth, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5745(ES44AC) |
Views: |
369 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A day at the beach |
Description: |
BNSF 5745 runs east amidst the sand and tall grass, although the only waves are in the contour of the undulating hills. Once Burlington Roads "long branch" from Lincoln to its junction with the old NP near Billings, MT, this rural line was transformed with the advent of low sulphur coal business in the seventies and, over the interceding decades has become mostly a double-track route. This scene is at a control poiint between Bingham and Ashby, NE in this vast ranching country. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:18:51 PM |
Location: |
Ashby, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5745(ES44AC) |
Views: |
417 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BNSF 5745 |
Description: |
BNSF 5745 passes one of the numerous aquafer-fed lakes amidst the sandhills region, east of Whitman, NE. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:28:13 PM |
Location: |
Whitman, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5745(ES44AC) |
Views: |
376 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BNSF 9997 |
Description: |
BNSF 9997 is eastbound on one of the remaining segments of single-track between Ashby and Hyannis, NE. Windmills abound is this region, where water is drawn for livestock on the numerous ranches. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:32:19 PM |
Location: |
Ashby, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9997(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
342 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
No bull |
Description: |
Grant County, NE, Nebraska Route 2 between Whitman and Mullen. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:24:26 PM |
Location: |
Whitman, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
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Views: |
179 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
KCS 4031 |
Description: |
KCS 4031 leads BNSF 9689 past elements of the local railfan community in this sparsely settled region, out to watch the proceedings on heavy-duty double track west of Mullen, NE. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:38:45 PM |
Location: |
Mullen, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
KCS 4031(SD70ACe) BNSF 9689(SD70MAC) |
Views: |
416 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
From out of the sundown |
Description: |
UP 6666 with yet more coal loads heads east in the evening sweet light past sunflowers and the communications lines that have succumbed to progress with the extension of CTC along this portion of the railroad. |
Photo Date: |
7/8/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 12:54:49 PM |
Location: |
Silver Creek, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6666(AC44CW) UP 6613(AC44CW) |
Views: |
381 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Wings over the prairie |
Description: |
UP 8338 could just as well be a gas turbine, an E-9 or F-7 with its wings unfolded in flight across the high plains in a scene that is so typical of UPs Nebraska Division (now Sidney Subdiv.) with lengthy tangents, the pole lines, sunflowers and distant block signal lights. Here a westbound 1+1 DPU manifest passes MP40-3 between Colton and Sidney, NE. |
Photo Date: |
8/11/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:10:35 PM |
Location: |
Colton, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 8338(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
300 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Good fortune at Gilluly |
Description: |
BNSF 5368 grinds up the west slope of Soldier Summit at West Gilluly, UT. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:25:27 PM |
Location: |
Gilluly, UT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5368(C44-9W) |
Views: |
376 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Coming through Kyune |
Description: |
BNSF 5368 eases its consist down the steep grade through Kyune, UT. A pity there is not more overhead traffic on this route since the closure of Tennessee Pass, yet the BNSF trackage rights business adds a little. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:32:18 PM |
Location: |
Kyune, UT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5368(C44-9W) |
Views: |
729 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
Almost at the top |
Description: |
BNSF 5368 is almost to the summit at West Solider Summit, UT. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:29:00 PM |
Location: |
Soldier Summit, UT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5368(C44-9W) |
Views: |
355 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Descending Silver Zone |
Description: |
BNSF 6188 tiptoes through the sage as it descends from Silver Zone Pass in the Nevada desert. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:37:18 PM |
Location: |
Silver Zone, NV |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6188(ES44AC) |
Views: |
332 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Railfans Lament |
Description: |
In a version of the old adage "all dressed up with no place to go"; here I stand at Moor, NV along the old SP with camera ready, excellent sweet light, but not a train in sight. Better luck tomorrow, up the road. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 1:43:26 PM |
Location: |
Moor, NV |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
378 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UPs Oregon Short Line is a scenic delight |
Description: |
UP 5285 follows the Snake as it approaches Glenns Ferry, ID. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 2:01:47 PM |
Location: |
Glenns Ferry, ID |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5285(AC45CCTE) UP 7772(AC45CCTE) UP 5273(AC45CCTE) |
Views: |
542 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The train and the river |
Description: |
UP 5285 has a 3+2 DPU double-stack outfit rolling smoothly along a nearly immaculate right of way as it approaches Glenns Ferry. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/2009 Upload Date: 3/31/2010 2:05:27 PM |
Location: |
Glenns Ferry, ID |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5285(AC45CCTE) UP 7772(AC45CCTE) UP 5273(AC45CCTE) |
Views: |
517 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 5616 West comin your way |
Description: |
Nothing like a manifest to brighten the afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:17:09 AM |
Location: |
Glenns Ferry, ID |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5616(AC44CWCTE) UP 5591(AC44CWCTE) UP 5601(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
539 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
In the catbird seat |
Description: |
A wonderful vantage point along old US 30 from which to enjoy the proceedings along UPs mainstreet to the northwest. The 5616 has a 3+1 DPU manifest. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:22:06 AM |
Location: |
Glenns Ferry, ID |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5616(AC44CWCTE) UP 5591(AC44CWCTE) UP 5601(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
980 Comments: 6 |
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Title: |
21st century caboose |
Description: |
UP 5621 suffices for marker lights on UP 5642 East. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:39:47 AM |
Location: |
Glenns Ferry, ID |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5621(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
308 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Cattails and containers |
Description: |
This scene reminds me of Bealville, CA by the manner in which the railroad comes down off Telocaset hill in the background (the grade is just above the level of the containers and pole lines). Albeit not as steep an incline or as compressed geographically, this segment of railroad is quite an arduous route itself. UP 4584 brings an intermodal into the mountain valley at Union Jct., OR and past a classic CTC installation. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 10:31:25 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 4584(SD70M) UP 4433(SD70M) UP 5164(SD70M) |
Views: |
441 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Arriving for a meet |
Description: |
UP 5256 with an eastbound manifest at Union Jct., OR |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 10:51:27 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5256(AC45CCTE) UP 4641(SD70M) UP 3807(SD70M) |
Views: |
414 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
An idyllic vista |
Description: |
This is really a lovely spot in Oregons Grande Ronde River valley, with the Wallowa Mountains in the distance. UP 5256 eases down to the east end of the siding, awaiting a meet. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:17:12 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5256(AC45CCTE) UP 4641(SD70M) UP 3807(SD70M) |
Views: |
389 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Going solo |
Description: |
UP 5604 with a Hinkle-bound manifest has its work cut out for it. After leaving the valley of the Snake River at Rock Island, OR, UPs La Grande Subdivision cuts northwestward with some steep grades over the Blue Mountains to reach the Columbia River valley. Here UP 5604 (with UP 5612 on the rear) ascends the first major climb on its path across the mountains at Oxman. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 10:08:59 AM |
Location: |
Oxman, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5604(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
299 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Near the top |
Description: |
UP 5604 is almost to the summit of the Blues at Kamela, OR |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:04:03 PM |
Location: |
Kamela, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5604(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
282 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Our friend the 5604, again, |
Description: |
The 5604 climbs into the Blue Mountains near Motanic, OR. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:56:52 AM |
Location: |
Motanic, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5604(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
261 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Ready to go |
Description: |
As the westbound nears, UP 5256 begins to pull, with two DPUs bringing up the rear. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:34:30 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 3881(SD70M) UP 7665(AC45CCTE) |
Views: |
377 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Arriving in town |
Description: |
UP 7698 is slowing for a crew change in La Grande. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:43:21 AM |
Location: |
La Grande, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7698(AC45CCTE) |
Views: |
259 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The lowly manifest lets one by |
Description: |
UP 7916 is getting around UP 5604 West at Meacham, OR on the west slope of the Blue Mountain grade. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:14:53 PM |
Location: |
Meacham, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 5604(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
380 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Coming and going |
Description: |
UP 7916 West passes the 5256 East s DPU power. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:36:08 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7665(AC45CCTE) |
Views: |
329 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The iconic wings |
Description: |
No other railroad logo has survived the years of consolidations - not the great keystone, the B&Os capitol dome, the Northern Pacific monad or the Great Northern goat, et al. All have passed, but for the KCS. Yet the Union Pacific emblem is into its third century of existence and endurance. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:26:55 PM |
Location: |
Meacham, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7446(AC45CCTE) UP 8522(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Home stretch to La Grande |
Description: |
UP 7916 West has just a few more miles to the division point in La Grande, OR. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:37:38 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7446(AC45CCTE) UP 8522(SD70ACe) |
Views: |
480 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Here it comes |
Description: |
UP 5256 awaits a meet with the 7916 West that is dropping down the grade. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:26:12 AM |
Location: |
Union Junction, OR |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
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153 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Picture window |
Description: |
The camera view finder is my picture window as BNSF 4128 enhances the sumptuous scenery. |
Photo Date: |
8/17/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:40:45 PM |
Location: |
Maryhill, WA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 4128(C44-9W) |
Views: |
261 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Slow Monday |
Description: |
There wasnt much happening, but this grain empty was a welcome development. |
Photo Date: |
8/17/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:43:24 PM |
Location: |
Maryhill, WA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 4128(C44-9W) |
Views: |
244 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Manifests make my day |
Description: |
BNSF 4662 rattles down the Columbia River valley along the old SP&S. |
Photo Date: |
8/17/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:46:57 PM |
Location: |
Maryhill, WA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 4662(C44-9W) |
Views: |
259 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Headed for the plains |
Description: |
BNSF 756 has cut its helpers off at Summit and is moving past Bison. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/2009 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:19:11 PM |
Location: |
Bison, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2) |
Views: |
691 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A photographic cliche |
Description: |
It is a well visited location - for obvious reasons; and the snowless peaks lessen the dramatic appeal. BNSF 756 heads over Two Medicine viaduct between East Glacier and Spotted Robe along US 2. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/2009 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:22:03 PM |
Location: |
East Glacier Park, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2) |
Views: |
678 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Good Juju |
Description: |
I was goofing off, sipping coffee and enjoying the exhilarating Montana air while packing the bike in the morning when this outfit came rambling through the pines west of Essex. There was an MW gang waiting to get on after Amtrak so I hurriedly packed and headed east on US 2, hoping the train would stop for helpers at Essex. It did, thus allowing me to follow the train up Marias Pass. Here BNSF 756, decidedly outside of traditional warbonnet territory, is resplendent amongst the tall pines. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/2009 Upload Date: 4/1/2010 1:07:55 PM |
Location: |
Java, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2) |
Views: |
724 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Moving through the shed |
Description: |
BNSF 7637 helper set shoves the BNSF 756 East through the sheds on the west slope of Marias Pass. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/2009 Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:16:29 PM |
Location: |
Java, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7637(ES44DC) |
Views: |
219 Comments: 0 |
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