KriegslokBR52
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Beautifull place. On the way out west yearly trip, i choose to head on I70 through the canyõn quite often just for the scenery.
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Front End Friday
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TrucTrain55
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Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend
KriegslokBR52
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Pennsy mainline "Middle Division" and an easbound container double stack heading through Mifflin, Pennsylvania:
Picture taken last Sunday.
Picture taken last Sunday.
gjslsffan
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Talk about a hammerhead, here is one for you. Had this on an eastbound out of Grand Junction in 1999-ish. Made a HO scale model of this one but sold it, in a fit of madness one time. I good friend bought it and he reminds me of it every time he brings it over for an op session.
Thanks for stopping for a look.
Thanks for stopping for a look.
kjd
Go make something!
You built one, you could always do another!
I should have said "unique on the BN" remembering ATSF had 8 SD45-2B and 23 GP60B, all with the dynamics where the cab usually is.
KriegslokBR52
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Cool shots. I did not know Santa Fe had those.
TrucTrain55
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Happy Friday everyone. From the O scale layout.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
ATSF liked "B" units. As Paul posted, they had 8-SD45-2B's as well as 3-SD45B's. Also as he mentioned, they had the only GP60B's built by EMD. ATSF rebuilt the SD45-2B's in their San Bernardino shop from Nov '87 to Jan '88. All made it over to BNSF and some were repainted in 2000. The SD45B's were done in the same shop in 1984, but I don't remember their history after that. The GP60B's were built that way and all merged into BNSF. All were still in active service in 2017, but I believe that at least 6 are now in the dead line. I think that the SD45B's were retired soon after the merger and I know that all of the SD45-2B's were retired by 2009.
skyliner
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Nice Thalys. Where was this taken, are you east of the platforms? It's been a couple years since I've been there, but I could never seem to find a good place around Centraal Station to take pictures, aside from inside the station itself.
I also miss all the goodies I used to bring back to the states from Jumbo supermarket out there.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
OK, my contribution this week.
NorthTexasRailroad
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Happy Friday everyone! Here's to the weekend and more trains!
logandsawman
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That is how it looks up here where the taconite trains run, in our case it is the dust from the mines. Most of our tracks are not like that.
Here is my Front End contribution, actually got it on the right day
a couple of my switch loco's
Dave LASM
kjd
Go make something!
Here's a couple, one of the head end of the train in the company notch climbing Bozeman Pass west out of Livingston, MT on the evening of April 28, 2018.
My 80 year old dad and I were in Montana attending the funeral of one of his childhood friends. You can't help but be introspective remembering someone's life. Things change, time marches on, am I doing something worthwhile? am I making the world a better place? Where will I end up? End up like these dinosaur fossils shipped off to a far away place to fuel someone else's hopes, dreams and iPhones?
Change is evident here as well, it wasn't that long ago the hills echoed with sounds of SD40-2s being helped by SD45s. Not long before that it was Northern Pacific's Yellowstones moving the tonnage up this hill.
At the other front, BNSF 9764 is the rear DPU. Pushing on the SD70MAC's coupler, MRL 4405, 250 and 4407 are adding another 11,800 hp to get the coal train over the mountain and on to Robert's Bank for export to run those iPhones.
My 80 year old dad and I were in Montana attending the funeral of one of his childhood friends. You can't help but be introspective remembering someone's life. Things change, time marches on, am I doing something worthwhile? am I making the world a better place? Where will I end up? End up like these dinosaur fossils shipped off to a far away place to fuel someone else's hopes, dreams and iPhones?
Change is evident here as well, it wasn't that long ago the hills echoed with sounds of SD40-2s being helped by SD45s. Not long before that it was Northern Pacific's Yellowstones moving the tonnage up this hill.
At the other front, BNSF 9764 is the rear DPU. Pushing on the SD70MAC's coupler, MRL 4405, 250 and 4407 are adding another 11,800 hp to get the coal train over the mountain and on to Robert's Bank for export to run those iPhones.
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CambriaArea51
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3290 creeps along as it gets its coal cars loaded.
