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By:Rick Erben
Dates:1/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
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Sand Patch Afternoon
Title:  Sand Patch Afternoon
Description:  CSX 7308 plods upgrade at Mance, PA. Helpers were not required. Economy watchers will note the general dearth of manifest traffic, in frequency and train length, these days.
Photo Date:  6/7/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:09:24 AM
Location:  Mance, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 7308(C40-8W)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
NS 9863
Title:  NS 9863
Description:  It got pretty wet between Mance and Portage as the late afternoon clouds developed into quite a storm over the mountains. The rain had subsided by the time I reached Portage, but the overcast persisted until dark.
Photo Date:  6/7/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:14:34 AM
Location:  Portage, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9863(C40-9W)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
SIRX 460181
Title:  SIRX 460181
Description:  One of my favorite roads and color patterns - that of the Old Reliable. Riding CSX 7308 West.
Photo Date:  6/7/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:12:49 AM
Location:  Mance, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  96   Comments: 0
NS 6738-II
Title:  NS 6738-II
Description:  Heading around the mountain. In Pennsy, PC and CR days, MG was the place to be, but density of traffic is not the same anymore.
Photo Date:  6/8/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:36:17 AM
Location:  MG Tower, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6738(SD60I)
Views:  85   Comments: 1
NS 6738-I
Title:  NS 6738-I
Description:  NS 6738 leads empty hoppers upgrade past former MG Block Station, the windows of which are regrettably walled in, detracting from the classic architecture of this isolated outpost on the mountain.
Photo Date:  6/8/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:33:40 AM
Location:  MG Tower, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6738(SD60I)
Views:  150   Comments: 1
NS 7692
Title:  NS 7692
Description:  Along one of the oldest arteries of commerce in the land, NS 7692 walks a grain train through Lilly, PA.
Photo Date:  6/8/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:21:17 AM
Location:  Lilly, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7692(ES40DC)
Views:  91   Comments: 4
UP 7196 West
Title:  UP 7196 West
Description:  One of several manifests that were running east and west this early summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:40:52 PM
Location:  Dunlap, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7196(AC44CW)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
An ACe (in your face)
Title:  An ACe (in your face)
Description:  UP 8731 rumbles over the heavy duty C&NW-era trestle west of Dunlap, IA.
Photo Date:  6/21/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:38:27 PM
Location:  Dunlap, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8731(SD70ACe)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
Manifest and sagebrush
Title:  Manifest and sagebrush
Description:  BNSF exercises its rights over the UP and former Rio Grande with an eastbound manifest at Yarmony.
Photo Date:  7/5/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:05:47 PM
Location:  Yarmony, CO
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4815(C44-9W)
Views:  128   Comments: 2
Forlorn
Title:  Forlorn
Description:  So it has been 15 years since through service on the Tennessee Pass route. Still the switch and signal apparatus of this once fairly busy and, arguably, most scenic of railroad divisions falls prey to time and the elements. How fine it would be to see a Ford FAST or lumber-laden manifest roll through over the jointed rail. This is the west end of Kobe siding, some 17 miles east of the summit at Tennessee Pass.
Photo Date:  7/5/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 10:59:59 PM
Location:  Kobe, CO
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  263   Comments: 0
The ubiquitous coal train of the West
Title:  The ubiquitous coal train of the West
Description:  UP 5637 rolls along the Colorado River enroute Denver and beyond.
Photo Date:  7/5/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:09:12 PM
Location:  Yarmony, CO
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5637(AC44CWCTE) UP 6215(AC44CW)
Views:  347   Comments: 2
Overland Route
Title:  Overland Route
Description:  UP 5315 is just commencing its district run from North Platte to Cheyenne as it passes Sutherland, NE on a hot summer evening.
Photo Date:  7/6/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:13:13 PM
Location:  Sutherland, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5315(AC45CCTE) UP 5331(AC45CCTE)
Views:  213   Comments: 2
Sundown on the plains
Title:  Sundown on the plains
Description:  UP 5315 rolls past the spur near MP 306 on its way toward the sundown and Cheyenne.
Photo Date:  7/6/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:16:45 PM
Location:  Sutherland, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5315(AC45CCTE) UP 5331(AC45CCTE)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
New Diamonds
Title:  New Diamonds
Description:  A westbound intermodal it about to hit the BNSF/UP diamond at Fremont, NE - diamonds that take a lot of tonnage.
Photo Date:  7/12/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:28:02 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7637(AC45CCTE)
Views:  172   Comments: 2
A visitor to town
Title:  A visitor to town
Description:  BNSF 6090 gets ready to depart Lincoln with the state capitol in the background. Look at what is at the point of a westbound on the departure track.
Photo Date:  7/15/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 1:52:47 AM
Location:  Lincoln, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6090(ES44AC) NS 1067(SD70ACe)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
NS 1067 and NS 8104
Title:  NS 1067 and NS 8104
Description:  Two of NSs fine heritage program units are on the point of a Laurel, MT-bound manifest a short distance west of Lincoln. I spent much of my youth along the Reading Company and visiting its fine employees in the Philly area, thus the appearance of the 1067 on the point was more than satisfying.
Photo Date:  7/15/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:54:57 AM
Location:  Denton, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1067(SD70ACe) NS 8104(ES44AC) BNSF 6198(ES44AC)
Views:  626   Comments: 4
Making their Nebraska debut
Title:  Making their Nebraska debut
Description:  Thats right. NS 1067 & NS 8104 in glorious RDG & LV colors are on the point of a Laurel, MT-bound manifest just out of Lincoln this Hot Sunday evening. What a treat!
Photo Date:  7/15/2012  Upload Date: 7/16/2012 1:56:33 AM
Location:  Denton, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1067(SD70ACe) NS 8104(ES44AC) BNSF 6198(ES44AC)
Views:  684   Comments: 3
Just another train
Title:  Just another train
Description:  Albeit an interesting manifest rolling down the Boyer River valley between Woodbine and Logan, IA.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:30:20 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7851(AC45CCTE)
Views:  125   Comments: 1
Track Speed
Title:  Track Speed
Description:  The 7449 West is undeterred by curvature or significant gradient as it ticks off the Nebraska miles at a solid 70.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:34:18 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7449(AC45CCTE)
Views:  191   Comments: 2
At The Beanery
Title:  At The Beanery
Description:  BNSF 4142 West is waiting for helpers to cut in as it is situated next to the former Northern Pacific depot that is partially occupied these days by the Northern Pacific Beanery - good food & trains.
Photo Date:  8/31/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:00:42 AM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4142(C44-9W) BNSF 5425(C44-9W) BNSF 7016(ES44C4)
Views:  196   Comments: 2
Arriving in town
Title:  Arriving in town
Description:  BNSF 4142 rolls across the Yellowstone River bridge at the east end of Livingston as it arrives for a push over Bozeman Pass.
Photo Date:  8/31/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 12:58:18 AM
Location:  Livingston, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4142(C44-9W) BNSF 5425(C44-9W) BNSF 7016(ES44C4)
Views:  228   Comments: 3
Heading for the Divide
Title:  Heading for the Divide
Description:  The 7794 West is climbing off the high plains towards Marias Pass as it passes the west end of Bison siding, between East Glacier and the summit.
Photo Date:  9/1/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:03:14 AM
Location:  Bison, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7794(ES44DC)
Views:  130   Comments: 2
A run of westbounds
Title:  A run of westbounds
Description:  Following BNSF 5374 down the mountain comes the 4518 in charge of an ethanol train.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:58:24 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5374(C44-9W) BNSF 4955(C44-9W)
Views:  307   Comments: 2
Working the grade
Title:  Working the grade
Description:  BNSF 4567 is in charge of auto racks ascending Marias Pass approaching Shed No.10 between Java East and Blacktail.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:38:38 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4567(C44-9W)
Views:  152   Comments: 1
Bringing up the rear
Title:  Bringing up the rear
Description:  The Essex helpers, 4829 and 4494, boost the 4567 East up the grade through Shed No.10.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:43:12 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4829(C44-9W) BNSF 4494(C44-9W)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
Over the river and through the woods
Title:  Over the river and through the woods
Description:  BNSF 4964 cross the high trestle above the Flathead River gorge at Java East.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:14:31 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4964(C44-9W)
Views:  188   Comments: 2
Great Northern
Title:  Great Northern
Description:  Yep, there is more than just a little GN influence about the H2 colors as BNSF 4964 leads an intermodal train into the ascent towards Marias Pass.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:16:47 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4964(C44-9W)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
Continental Divide
Title:  Continental Divide
Description:  BNSF 5292 crests the divide at Marias Pass.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:20:16 AM
Location:  Summit, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5292(C44-9W)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
An asset
Title:  An asset
Description:  Sometimes clouds are a huge impediment for photography. On other occasions, such as right now, they provide an impressive contrast to a scene.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:24:22 AM
Location:  Summit, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5292(C44-9W)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Bringing up the tail
Title:  Bringing up the tail
Description:  DPU power on the 4518 West are useful as brakes on this portion of the Hi Line.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:03:28 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5312(C44-9W) BNSF 681(C44-9W)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
Take your pick
Title:  Take your pick
Description:  My pick is the leader. I think BNSF lost a lot when it went to the more spartan black and orange with that meaningless swoosh logo. Here yet another GE product leads a manifest down the 1.8 percent grade toward the Flathead River valley as it exits Shed No.10.
Photo Date:  9/2/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 1:53:33 AM
Location:  Java East, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5374(C44-9W) BNSF 7262(ES44DC)
Views:  230   Comments: 1
Not wasting any time
Title:  Not wasting any time
Description:  BNSF 4309 is moving every bit of track speed along the Flathead River at Nyack, MT.
Photo Date:  9/3/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:21:31 PM
Location:  Nyack, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4309(C44-9W)
Views:  168   Comments: 3
BNSF 509539
Title:  BNSF 509539
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:25:44 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  63   Comments: 0
Making a joint
Title:  Making a joint
Description:  BNSF 6623 has got itself a knuckle about 30 deep at Columbus, MT and is in the process of coupling to the rear of the train.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:03:53 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6623(ES44C4) BNSF 5373(C44-9W)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
Classic signals
Title:  Classic signals
Description:  BNSF 7026 passes the NP-era cantilever at Big Timber.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:43:21 PM
Location:  Big Timber, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7026(ES44C4)
Views:  168   Comments: 1
Bridge Route
Title:  Bridge Route
Description:  I wonder how many times BN management kicked itself for auctioning off the former Northern Pacific route through Montana that is now the MRL but primarily BNSF traffic. Volumes were good and the scenery just mighty fine. Here BNSF 7026 West leads auto racks along the Yellowstone River just west of Columbus.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:17:44 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7026(ES44C4) BNSF 7389(ES44DC)
Views:  256   Comments: 1
Getting underway
Title:  Getting underway
Description:  The 7026 got stopped for track and time, affording an opportunity to catch the train accelerating through Reed Point.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:41:43 PM
Location:  Reed Point, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7026(ES44C4)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
Afternoon chaser
Title:  Afternoon chaser
Description:  It took awhile but I got a westbound to follow for awhile; here BNSF 7026 crosses the Yellowstone River between Columbus and Reed Point, MT.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:24:43 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7026(ES44C4) BNSF 7389(ES44DC)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Paleface
Title:  Paleface
Description:  BNSF 9704 minus its nose markings follows the Yellowstone River west of Springdale, MT with yet another grain train.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:45:40 PM
Location:  Springdale, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9704(SD70MAC)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
The scenic Montana Rail Link
Title:  The scenic Montana Rail Link
Description:  MRLs Missoula to Laurel manifest rolls down the Yellowstone River valley approaching Columbus, MT.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/6/2012 2:15:25 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4308(SD70ACe)
Views:  114   Comments: 0
Big Blue of the West
Title:  Big Blue of the West
Description:  I really like this color scheme on the ACes. MRL 4308 leads the Missoula-Laurel manifest into Columbus on a warm September afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:24:22 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MRL 4308(SD70ACe)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
MRL 45045
Title:  MRL 45045
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/27/2012  Upload Date: 10/8/2012 12:24:58 PM
Location:  Columbus, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  116   Comments: 0
BNSF 481900
Title:  BNSF 481900
Description:  Artists Making Foamers Mad - indeed?
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:58:11 AM
Location:  Browning, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  550   Comments: 1
Mountain grade
Title:  Mountain grade
Description:  BNSF 5664 West with an MRL SD-40-2 as "kicker" for the passes leaves the valley and heads into the grade over Mullan Pass in earnest.
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:53:12 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5664(AC44CW) BNSF 4626(C44-9W) MRL 256(SD40-2XR)
Views:  323   Comments: 1
Going up
Title:  Going up
Description:  Forty-five minutes behind the 5664 West comes another intermodal outfit with another MRL "kicker".
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:56:29 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5669(AC44CW) BNSF 9455(SD70MAC) MRL 250(SD40-2)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
Before the sunrise
Title:  Before the sunrise
Description:  It is 7:30am and the sun has not yet risen above the treetops as BNSF 6015 descends Mullan Pass.
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:40:19 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6015(ES44AC)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
Morning manifest
Title:  Morning manifest
Description:  BNSF 969 East is approaching Austin with the upper level of track visible on the embankment above the consist. The train will soon reverse direction some 120 degrees and pass in the foreground. A great place for watching trains.
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:48:29 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 969(C44-9W) BNSF 1094(C44-9W) CSX 7917(C40-8W)
Views:  146   Comments: 1
Into the morning light
Title:  Into the morning light
Description:  BNSF 969 negotiates the tight arc at Austin and heads down the valley toward Helena.
Photo Date:  9/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 11:49:59 AM
Location:  Austin, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 969(C44-9W) BNSF 1094(C44-9W) CSX 7917(C40-8W)
Views:  131   Comments: 1
ARMN 111300
Title:  ARMN 111300
Description:  Riding UP 7128 East
Photo Date:  10/15/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 9:38:30 AM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  59   Comments: 0
CHSX 255071
Title:  CHSX 255071
Description:  Riding UP 7128 East
Photo Date:  10/15/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 9:39:31 AM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  44   Comments: 0


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