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Hansrote happenings
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)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
Three views of BNSF 7704-II
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)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
Three views of BNSF 7704-III
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
Identity crisis
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
Picture windows
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
BNSF 5272 leads a coal train
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
BNSF 4479
Title:  BNSF 4479
Description:  Westbound 4+2 grain train climbing the grade to Yampai Summit
Photo Date:  5/2/2012  Upload Date: 7/13/2012 11:50:12 PM
Location:  Yampai, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4479(C44-9W) CSX 357(AC44CW) BNSF 718(C44-9W) BNSF 5436(C44-9W)
Views:  382   Comments: 2
Husting through Hoytville
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
CSX 439
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
Sioux-Liner
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
More endangered species
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
Following blocks
Title:  Following blocks
Description:  The 4733 is promptly on the tail of BNSF 4930 at Walong.
Photo Date:  4/22/2011  Upload Date: 9/29/2011 11:11:37 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4733(C44-9W) BNSF 5110(C44-9W) BNSF 5606(AC44CW) BNSF 4322(C44-9W)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Making the best of it
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
Tackling the mountain
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
Notching out
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
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:  320   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:  396   Comments: 0
Evening closer
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
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:  340   Comments: 2
UP 6052
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
UP 6077
Title:  UP 6077
Description:  160 car eastbound manifest rolling past the ABS signals between Mercer and Valley
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 10:21:20 PM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6077(AC44CWCTE) UP 7054(AC44CW) UP 8125(SD9043MAC) UP 7238(AC44CW) UP 6284(AC44CW) UP 5892(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  557   Comments: 2
UP 5749 East
Title:  UP 5749 East
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/9/2012 11:57:15 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5749(AC44CWCTE) UP 6284(AC44CW) UP 8363(SD70ACe)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
UP 5815
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
UP 6292
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
UP 6788
Title:  UP 6788
Description:  UP 6788 drops down the Boyer River valley with a short manifest; shot from the US 30 overpass.
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/10/2012 12:09:02 AM
Location:  Logan, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6788(AC44CW) UP 7004(AC44CW) UP 6304(AC44CW) UP 4656(SD70M) UP 3866(SD70M)
Views:  569   Comments: 2
UP 6788 West
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
UP 6864 West
Title:  UP 6864 West
Description: 
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
Clipped wings
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
UP 5913 West
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
UP 6800
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
UP 6800 West
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
UP 6609 West-I
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
UP 6609-II
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
UP 6609-III
Title:  UP 6609-III
Description: 
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
Fallen Flag
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
Just another coal train
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
Along the UP Trail
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
UP 6536
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
Just a workhorse GE
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
Underway
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
From out of the sundown
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
Catch me if you can
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
UP 7611 Take 2
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
Overland Route
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
UP 6671 East.
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
UP 6702-I
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
Patch job
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
On the roll
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: 
Locomotives:  UP 4857(SD70M) UP 6739(AC44CW)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
Into the October sundown
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
UP 5968 West
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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