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UP 7732 East, & Another Train Meet
In a still from the video, UP 5646, a Distributed Power Unit (DPU or "dupe") pushes in Run 8, sanding like crazy (watch the video as this unit passes) as UP 3798 West rounds the curve from the left, in...
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Amtrak: A Rainy Day For California Zephyr's #6
There hasn't been a terrific amount of snow where I live this year, and the rainfall has also been lacking of sorts.That said, I went out trainchasing in the rain recently, and captured an Amtrak and...
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Inside an Amtrak GE P42DC Locomotive
Amtrak #6, the California Zephyr, with #100 on point, on a different day from these cab shots -- taken past the detector at MP148. The train is about to pass under Interstate 80.Because these photos...
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Tunnel 18 In Newcastle
Union Pacific finished their tunnel enlargement program in November of 2009 (above) -- in order to accommodate double-stack or container traffic (as shown below) over Donner Pass. I summarized UP's new...
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A very rare California Zephyr train meet at Switch 9:
It was a beautiful day in the Sierra Nevadas, and I was again train-chasing with scanner, camera and video.I first caught the eastbound #6 California Zephyr near Secret Town, running up the hill at...
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UP 7729 West meets UP 7676 East:
And does so in the 95-degree heat just below the very small town of Gold Run.Once again I inadvertently manage to capture a very rare train meet on video.Created on August 7, 2012 using FlipShare, this...
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UP 8659 West meets UP 7378 East -- Another train meet!
How I manage to consistently do this, I do not know.That said, I proffer the below video as evidence of my innate ability to be present for any number of elaborate train meets:Here, UP 8659 West meets...
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UP 7970 West: an incredibly SHINY new locomotive consist!
There are roughly nine new videos awaiting posting on this blog, my having captured them over the past two months and then edited them down this past week.That said, I couldn't help but push those...
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Winter's coming: UP 604 in Colfax
In the process of traveling up to my cabin from work this past week, I happened to stop in Colfax for groceries and hardware.In the late 90's, Colfax was a Helper Unit point, where predominantly elder...
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Inside a UP SD70ACe
I have always been fascinated with what occurs in the cabs of various locomotives. And this has been, roughly, the least-covered topic photographically and structurally in the history of train and...
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UP 7632 East: a Pig through Alta
First, thank you kindly to everyone who reads this blog on a permanent or occasional basis.I couldn't do it without you, your hits, your support, your viewings.Wherever you come from, wherever your...
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Stack train documented by unusual video:
I'm certainly nothing of a techno-geek, by any stretch of the imagination.That said, I am sufficiently facile as to update various forms of technology in a basic way.And that would be: I traded in my...
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UP 5488 West, a pig under rainy Winter skies
[Note: before we begin, I must greatly apologize for the change in my comments section. You may notice that I have activated Blogger's Word Verification -- a ploy I most desperately despise -- because...
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Casa Loma Road: I nail another train meet
And right in front of me, no less.Certainly, there are times when you may catch, during your railfanning experience, a train meet in the middle or at the end.But I have had some astounding luck in...
View ArticleIt's enough to break your heart:
Sometimes, whilst traversing that great world-wide web, one comes across things that, depending upon your personal inclinations and interests, sometimes just make you wince in terrible pain.This would...
View ArticleMegastructures Break Down: Train Overhaul
Except that it's not a train, it's a locomotive. An entire episode from the National Geographic Channel on YouTube: Above, at the National Railway Equipment Company, headquartered in Mt Vernon,...
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Stalled BNSF train in Gold Run
And not just any BNSF train; a BNSF train with the very newest GE power: two ES44C4s up front.The story goes something like this:I was coming back up to my cabin from having worked my week in...
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MP154: UP 6471 West, a short train with eight engines
Except that, of course, when you actually examine the video, people will only count seven engines.That is to say: up front. There is a DPU at the rear of this mixed manifest train -- which also hosts...
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MP154: three trains in a half hour
And there I was, thinking I could possibly pull off another train meet on video. As immured here:I knew that UP 5774 had already passed Alta and was on its way downhill towards my favorite spot under...
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UP to resurrect an actual Big Boy steam locomotive?
In a word: yes.From the actual Union Pacific website itself:Union Pacific Railroad Acquires Big Boy Locomotive No. 4014 Railroad Plans to Restore One of the Largest Steam Locomotives Ever...
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General Electric locomotive manufacturing leaves Erie, PA for Ft Worth, Texas
And it's all because of unions, wages and profitability.Let there be no mistake: for whatever reason I have somehow favored EMD locomotives over GE locomotives. Perhaps because of the historical issue...
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A brief visit to UP's Roseville Yard
Below, an overview of UP's Roseville classification yard (taken by me from Star 6, a LE helo):And then, on another day, I chanced to encounter a wonderful triumvirate of SD59MX locomotives on a side...
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My most sincere apologies for not having posted in a brutally long time.I have had an insane time with Google not being kind, and/or myself not being smarter than Google -- likely the second part.That...
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Amtrak's #6 California Zephyr east, before the snow
It's no secret that Fornicalia isn't getting a lot of rain whilst -- simultaneously -- the rest of the nation is getting sopped, socked, soaked and snowed-upon. (Click on the photo to embiggen.)A...
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Revisiting the Roseville Yard -- and UP's renumbering of the venerable SD9043AC:
Mid-February, I chanced to re-visit the Roseville Yard on my way to Nevada in order to take a high-elevation vacation in the snow with my bountiful and beautiful wife, the love of my life.I have...
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