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Title: |
Hansrote happenings |
Description: |
CSX 84 eastbound at Hansrote. Appears the tie gang has been busy here. |
Photo Date: |
10/24/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 12:52:22 AM |
Location: |
Hansrote, WV |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 84(AC44CW) |
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121 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Three views of BNSF 7704-II |
Description: |
Under and over; BNSF 7704 is on the famed loop as its consist passes through Tunnel No.9. |
Photo Date: |
4/23/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 1:25:51 PM |
Location: |
Walong, CA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Tunnel,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7704(ES44DC) BNSF 7782(ES44DC) CSX 122(AC44CW) BNSF 1017(C44-9W) |
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306 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Three views of BNSF 7704-III |
Description: |
If I wind up in heaven I hope there are some tracks close by. Heaven on earth here and the roar of power better than harps. |
Photo Date: |
4/23/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 1:26:05 PM |
Location: |
Walong, CA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 7704(ES44DC) BNSF 7762(ES44DC) CSX 122(AC44CW) BNSF 1017(C44-9W) |
Views: |
543 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Identity crisis |
Description: |
I suspect many roads in years past effected a unique signal system as much for promulgating their individual identity as anything. B&O sure got it right in their classic CPLs. A shame bottom line economics wipes out esthetics and heritage in its inexorable march. |
Photo Date: |
10/24/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 12:56:52 AM |
Location: |
Hansrote, WV |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 329(AC44CW) |
Views: |
152 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Picture windows |
Description: |
Some homes perched on the mountainside along Detour Road have spectacular views. I like it from down here as the 329 passes Hansrote with empty hoppers. |
Photo Date: |
10/24/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 12:58:12 AM |
Location: |
Hansrote, WV |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 329(AC44CW) |
Views: |
138 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BNSF 5272 leads a coal train |
Description: |
The DPU units on this outfit were BNSF 736, UP 6615 and BNSF 5364. |
Photo Date: |
4/24/2011 Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:12:41 AM |
Location: |
Caliente, CA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5272(C44-9W) UP 4006(SD70M) UP 6393(AC44CW) SP 329(AC44CW) |
Views: |
386 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Husting through Hoytville |
Description: |
This fellow was really moving along. |
Photo Date: |
10/19/2012 Upload Date: 11/1/2012 10:07:17 AM |
Location: |
Hoytville, OH |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 418(AC44CW) |
Views: |
69 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: |
300 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sioux-Liner |
Description: |
BNSF 4886 starts across the UP diamonds with an interesting power set. This manifest was primarily (ADM) tank cars, covered hoppers and some company material. |
Photo Date: |
4/28/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:25:38 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 4886(C44-9W) KCS 4609(AC44CW) CN 2506(C44-9WL) |
Views: |
480 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
More endangered species |
Description: |
The former C&O in Ohio is a bastion for that roads unique signal system - a system that seemed to place signals in profusion. I traveled by night from Magnolia, WV to Vaunces, OH with the hope of photographing some of C&Os classic signals, however, there was a strong front moving in and, although mild, the skies were overcast. CSX 5119 has empty coal cars returning to the Appalachian mines. |
Photo Date: |
10/25/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 1:14:46 AM |
Location: |
Chillicothe, OH |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 5119(AC44CW) |
Views: |
148 Comments: 2 |
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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) |
Views: |
562 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Tackling the mountain |
Description: |
BNSF 5860 lifts its train through the curve at Austin. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2010 Upload Date: 10/12/2010 11:58:17 AM |
Location: |
Austin, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 5860(ES44AC) BNSF 5663(AC44CW) |
Views: |
326 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Notching out |
Description: |
The westbound never stops but slowly creeps up the main and after the empty train with its DPU power has cleared the switch, the searchlight flicks to green and the load begins to accelerate into the grade. A good example of why MRL extended the siding about half a mile in 2008. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2010 Upload Date: 10/12/2010 11:54:16 AM |
Location: |
Austin, MT |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6386(ES44AC) BNSF 9413(SD70MAC) BNSF 5860(ES44AC) BNSF 5663(AC44CW) |
Views: |
486 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
320 Comments: 1 |
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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) |
Views: |
396 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Evening closer |
Description: |
The shadows are getting long at Walong as yet another in a long procession of southbounds coils through Tehachapi loop. |
Photo Date: |
4/21/2011 Upload Date: 9/27/2011 12:44:48 PM |
Location: |
Walong, CA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 9237(SD70ACe) BNSF 5693(AC44CW) BNSF 1038(C44-9W) BNSF 2101(GP38-2) |
Views: |
443 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
340 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
UP 6052 |
Description: |
Westbound manifest departing Fremont at near sundown on a December afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
12/17/2011 Upload Date: 12/19/2011 7:01:43 PM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6052(AC44CWCTE) UP 6224(AC44CW) UP 5764(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
266 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 5815 |
Description: |
DPUs east and west - comin atcha on the 8027 West and the 5815 shoving away on loaded coal. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/2010 Upload Date: 3/25/2010 10:24:59 PM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5815(AC44CWCTE) UP 6292(AC44CW) |
Views: |
350 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6292 |
Description: |
UP 8027 West gets a ramrod from a DPU unit among a surprising number still in SP colors, albeit patched. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/2010 Upload Date: 3/25/2010 10:29:50 PM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6292(AC44CW) |
Views: |
250 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6788 West |
Description: |
After meeting a coal train at Missouri Valley, the 6788 West heads down the single track toward Council Bluffs, passing beneath the old IC overpass. |
Photo Date: |
4/8/2012 Upload Date: 4/10/2012 12:09:57 AM |
Location: |
Loveland, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6788(AC44CW) UP 7004(AC44CW) UP 6304(AC44CW) UP 4656(SD70M) UP 3866(SD70M) |
Views: |
477 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6864 West |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
4/8/2012 Upload Date: 4/9/2012 11:58:53 PM |
Location: |
Woodbine, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6864(AC44CW) UP 6326(AC44CW) UP 7136(AC44CW) |
Views: |
266 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Clipped wings |
Description: |
UP 6779 departs Fremont on a spring afternoon. The dimuntive UP shield sure lacks the appeal of the classic wings. |
Photo Date: |
6/15/2011 Upload Date: 1/27/2012 12:25:56 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6779(AC44CW) UP 6338(AC44CW) |
Views: |
266 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 5913 West |
Description: |
Empty coalie cruising thru MoVal |
Photo Date: |
12/28/2011 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 12:21:57 AM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5913(AC44CWCTE) UP 6375(AC44CW) |
Views: |
246 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
UP 6800 |
Description: |
Heading into the sundown |
Photo Date: |
1/4/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:25:23 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6800(AC44CW) UP 6379(AC44CW) CSX 7505(C40-8) |
Views: |
520 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
UP 6800 West |
Description: |
After the mega-mergers of the 90s one would often see UP, SP and CNW units running trio; here a CSX interloper lends a hand to a westbound on its way toward North Platte. |
Photo Date: |
1/4/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:25:19 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6800(AC44CW) UP 6379(AC44CW) CSX 7505(C40-8) |
Views: |
423 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6609 West-I |
Description: |
A westbound starting out of Fremont in the last rays of sunlight on a January afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
1/10/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:51 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW) |
Views: |
296 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 6609-II |
Description: |
Smokin it up |
Photo Date: |
1/10/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:41 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW) |
Views: |
326 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 6609-III |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
1/10/2012 Upload Date: 1/17/2012 1:57:25 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6609(AC44CW) UP 6399(AC44CW) |
Views: |
334 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Fallen Flag |
Description: |
UP 6716 still bears the colors of its original owner - at the head-end of OMAX empties leaving town. |
Photo Date: |
9/26/2011 Upload Date: 10/4/2011 2:33:05 PM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6716(AC44CW) UP 6507(AC44CW) |
Views: |
284 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Just another coal train |
Description: |
Coal trains in this region are nearly as prevalent as flies at a summer picnic. This outfit is proceeding through the west leg of the wye at Missouri Valley and will head north towards Sioux City. |
Photo Date: |
1/28/2011 Upload Date: 9/10/2011 3:50:09 PM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5667(AC44CWCTE) UP 6532(AC44CW) |
Views: |
330 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Along the UP Trail |
Description: |
UP 6535 has another coalie rocking west through Ames. |
Photo Date: |
9/20/2010 Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:15:49 AM |
Location: |
Ames, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6535(AC44CW) UP 5806(AC44CWCTE) UP 7094(AC44CW) |
Views: |
296 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6536 |
Description: |
2+1 grain train comes rolling through CP W312 east of Paxton, NE. |
Photo Date: |
4/15/2010 Upload Date: 4/28/2010 1:00:08 PM |
Location: |
Paxton, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6536(AC44CW) |
Views: |
166 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Just a workhorse GE |
Description: |
Bearing a road number reminding one of DD-40AXs, another coalie departs Fremont for Wyoming. |
Photo Date: |
10/4/2011 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:16:25 PM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6939(AC4460CW) UP 6583(AC44CW) UP 5843(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
269 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Underway |
Description: |
Horn blowing, crossing gate bell sounding, UP 6939 with NSPX empties notches out. |
Photo Date: |
10/4/2011 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:16:14 PM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6939(AC4460CW) UP 6583(AC44CW) UP 5843(AC44CWCTE) |
Views: |
309 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
353 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Catch me if you can |
Description: |
UP 7611 was already whistling for the road crossings in Fremont as it departed town and I had to kick the Harley into high gear to overtake it at Troxel, a few miles west of town. |
Photo Date: |
9/20/2010 Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:07:28 AM |
Location: |
Troxel, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW) |
Views: |
272 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
UP 7611 Take 2 |
Description: |
UP 7611 passes the wide angle friendly grain elevator at Troxel. |
Photo Date: |
9/20/2010 Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:09:30 AM |
Location: |
Troxel, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW) |
Views: |
291 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Overland Route |
Description: |
UP 6664 leads a North Platte-bound manifest out the steel highway across the plains. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2011 Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:12:56 PM |
Location: |
Ames, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6664(AC44CW) UP 2451(SD60M) UP 6634(AC44CW) |
Views: |
266 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6671 East. |
Description: |
Manifest kicking up the snow. |
Photo Date: |
12/8/2011 Upload Date: 12/10/2011 1:24:07 AM |
Location: |
Missouri Valley, IA |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6671(AC44CW) |
Views: |
128 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6702-I |
Description: |
The coal pipeline continues with an OPPX load moving into Fremont behind UP 6702 and company. |
Photo Date: |
4/28/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:20:07 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6702(AC44CW) UP 6758(AC44CW) |
Views: |
288 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Patch job |
Description: |
The DPU on this coal load seems to be ex-CNW 8804. |
Photo Date: |
10/4/2011 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:32:02 PM |
Location: |
Troxel, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6706(AC44CW) |
Views: |
129 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
On the roll |
Description: |
UP 4857 is twenty minutes behind UP 6664 West with another consist for North Platte s receiving yard. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2011 Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:22:13 PM |
Location: |
Ames, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW) |
Views: |
181 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Into the October sundown |
Description: |
UP 4857 again |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2011 Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:22:02 PM |
Location: |
Ames, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW) |
Views: |
209 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 5968 West |
Description: |
Just another coalie. |
Photo Date: |
3/24/2012 Upload Date: 3/26/2012 12:13:55 AM |
Location: |
Fremont, NE |
Author: |
Rick Erben |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 5968(AC44CWCTE) UP 6759(AC44CW) |
Views: |
509 Comments: 2 |
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