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| 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) |
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398 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Making the best of it |
| Description: |
The impressive Columbia River gorge has plenty of rail activity on both sides of the river. Aside from the obvious benefit of such traffic density, it can be frustrating when waiting upon activity on one side of the river to view what one is missing across the water. Such is the case at Biggs, OR as I wait for approaching UP traffic as an SD-70MAC heads a nice eastbound BNSF manifest cruising up the valley. But it is still a pretty sight. |
| Photo Date: |
5/10/2012 Upload Date: 5/8/2013 12:20:59 PM |
| Location: |
Maryhill, WA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9981(SD70MAC) BNSF 5618(AC44CW) BNSF 2136(GP38AC) BNSF 331(GP60B) BNSF 1779(SD40-2) |
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566 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) |
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238 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pumpkin patch |
| Description: |
The pumpkin patch provided a nice foreground for the intensely sidelit angle of late afternoon as NS 9978 brings an eastbound manifest through Mexico. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 10:29:36 AM |
| Location: |
Mexico, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9978(C40-9W) NS 6735(SD60I) NS 3353(SD40-2) NS 5304(GP38-2) NS 8593(C39-8) |
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318 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound on P-3 |
| Description: |
The four mainlines through Cheyenne were generally full most all of the time, and at this time we were putting some ninety trains a day through town on the busier days of the week. Yet another manifest is getting ready to head over Sherman Hill. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/1980 Upload Date: 2/10/2013 4:11:06 PM |
| Location: |
Cheyenne, WY |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3381(SD40-2) |
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349 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not a good picture? |
| Description: |
This picture has problems - blurred, overcast, etc. Yet there is something about it that draws me. It has soul. When I look at this outfit coming out of Spruce Creek valley and pouring on the power as it heads into Barre straight line, I think of trios of F-7s hauling a redball SW-10 through here in Pennsy days with consist bouncing over the railjoints and springs squealing; of the tuscan red varnish with E units, sharp sounding horns and melodious EMD engines and, even today, the raw surge of power and thrill of a passing freight train in a sense of urgency to reach its next destination. After it is gone, only the sound of a barking dog will disturb the silence of this rural town. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2009 Upload Date: 4/5/2010 12:17:36 PM |
| Location: |
Barree, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9890(C40-9W) NS 9604(C40-9W) NS 9722(C40-9W) NS 3429(SD40-2) |
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323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Climbing out of Dalys Hole |
| Description: |
We are in the cab of Amtrak No.6 and I am taking a road trip prior to qualifying as train dispatcher in Cheyenne. East of Riner, we meet UP 3488 roaring up the grade out of Dalys Hole, west of Hadsell. |
| Photo Date: |
6/30/1978 Upload Date: 2/5/2012 2:29:44 AM |
| Location: |
Hadsell, WY |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3488(SD40-2) |
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333 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Back in the heartland |
| Description: |
ICE 6363 is about to pass beneath US34 a short distance west of Ottumwa, IA. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:39:20 AM |
| Location: |
Ottumwa, IA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DME 6363(SD40-2) |
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250 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
UP 8044 West |
| Description: |
The grade begins right in town and here a westbound van outfit with a snoot fast forty accelerates into Sherman Hill and a fast trip to Rawlins. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1980 Upload Date: 2/10/2013 4:13:30 PM |
| Location: |
Cheyenne, WY |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8044(SD40-2) |
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584 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Auto Railroad Overland |
| Description: |
Once the mail and van trains passed, the westbound afternoon fleet also included the ARRO, a consist of auto parts and set-up autos for GM in Warm Springs, CA. The train ran as Rock Island No.57 from Chicago to Council Bluffs and as SP symbol UPWSA from Ogden, with connections off CR, GTW, C&O and B&O at Chicago. On its heels would be the California Livestock. Here the ARRO is arriving at Cheyenne after a quick trip from North Platte. |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1979 Upload Date: 2/10/2013 4:08:22 PM |
| Location: |
Cheyenne, WY |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8079(SD40-2) |
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649 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 4433 East |
| Description: |
passing the block signals at MP31.5 along a segment of current of traffic double track. |
| Photo Date: |
1/4/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:21:09 AM |
| Location: |
Mercer, NE |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4433(SD70M) CSX 8209(SD40-2) UP 3865(SD70M) |
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321 Comments: 0 |
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