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Nice pics yard boy! Try passing each other in opposite directions each going 60! It's definitely puckering sometimes. I saw that lashup of the Wabash and Southern sitting just outside of DHS' hometown of Berea as they came out of the connector to Bellevue to go east a few weeks ago, I think it was the 20w or something?
Ever had the geometry train? Had it last summer, those guys in the back live like kings, all kinds of foods and drinks you can think of. They "roll" pretty heavy food wise.
I had the Lackawanna in the yard a few weeks ago, came in on the 14T auto rack train.
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Nice photos Dewoc, I do know that a pair of Heritage units took the J611 Steam locomotive to Spencer NC a few weeks, I was unable to see it but there are some of them out there.
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Koko, I never have been on it before but I talked with a few guys that have been and they said the same thing, stocked with tons of good food and drink and very very comfortable
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The second pic the orange and silver engines reminds me of the movie Silver Streak ! Real cool paint job.  Chet
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Chet, Those were the engines that were used in the movie "Unstoppable" with Denzel Washington. They were/are Canadian Pacific GE ES4400AC units. A guy that runs one of the short pools from Elmira/Buffalo was actually Denzel's "stunt" double that actually ran the train when the movie was filmed. So I guess you can say I know someone famous! 
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That is cool Tom and another great movie now that makes you part celebrity !
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I've seen engines in our yard and Ohio that NS bought and painted the same way. Cross out the numbers and spray paint new ones. Plus spray paint the horse
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Yours truly on the power watching the shove out of CSX's Frontier yard   There's an old leaser there Tom, former HLCX/CSX power that was spray painted out and painted over with a new NS engine number. Here's the Lackawanna heritage I had a few weeks ago in the yard  And an awesome shot from our mainline out east to Binghamton NY. These hills and valleys in the morning are amazing with the sunrise and autumn is absolutely stunning.  One more from last week early morning waiting for our outbound recrew, empty hopper train to take back to the coal fields of PA for a reload and another destination 
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Dewoc, Don't stop the updates ! I for one enjoy train watching as much as construction. One small correction, the engines that were in Spencer, NC are NOT steam powered, they are diesel powered and were of the "streamliner" era. Randy M. Smolenack RMSmodels@aol.comrandy.m.smolenack.civ@mail.mil
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Yeah Woc, what Randy said…..it's a great thread.
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Zach, same goes for me: keep them coming. Especially the CNW #411.
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We have a triple crown yard in Detroit. We also have in down in Fort Wayne. 60 mph trains and we don't have to do a damn thing to them.
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The Triple Crown train is one of my favorite jobs, we dont get up to 60 cause we have to go on the NS, Belt, Metra, IHB and then to the UP Proviso yard where they take it from there so we always get stopped at every railroad, but its a nice job, I call signals for about 10 miles while the engineer does all the work.
We used to block swap the train at Calumet but they stopped doing that and made it a run through in an effort to cut back on some OT I guess or whatever their reasons were, job used to make 12 hours when we block swapped and even as a run through it still makes 12 hours, best I ever did was 16 hours on the Triple Crown, waited for a cab for 4 hours
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Here is stuff I witnessed downtown recently...   "/>  "/>  "/>  "/>  "/>  "/>  The picture of the grain elevator has nothing special but I may eventually scratch build one in 1/87 scalefor my train dio. I've just started weathering HO cars recently. Not sure I would put pictures here though as they might be deleted.  Stephane
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I have seen pics of CSX's gen sets they have and other leasers, CEFX or maybe GEFX? I can't recall but they are blue and white. Can't believe UP is short of power, were still getting a ton of foreign power rolling through, had a brand new UP, BNSF-both GE and EMD, a ton of CN & CP power all of the sudden too. It is truly amazing other RR's power compared to ours-it's almost embarrassing what we have.
I have seen those Triple Crowns on the Chicago line, I heard they were slowly doing away with them, it will cost too much to buy and/or repair the existing equipment.
Nice pic of the covered wagon Ironstef! CN still has quite a few of those floating around in CN paint and BCOL/British Rail paint.
I'd love to get some pics of the GE plant in Erie, last time I went by they had a dozen or more South American engines on flat cars ready to be shipped out and also had two new KCS engines there. Apparently the new BNSF LNG powered engines are being tested there too.
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DeWoc19 wrote:...but its a nice job, I call signals for about 10 miles while the engineer does all the work... Welcome to the road  sorta, LOL (and the money is better!!!)
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