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| Title: |
Coming and going at Thompsontown, Part II |
| Description: |
NS 9636 at a popular viewpoint. There was once an ornate steel trestle c`rrying PA Route 333 over the Juniata here; now replaced with a concrete slab. It would have been a great time to catch a westbound. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 10:16:46 AM |
| Location: |
Thompsontown, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9636(C40-9W) NS 8897(C40-9W) NS 9235(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
158 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Coming and going at Thompsontown, Part I |
| Description: |
NS 9636 East cruises through the reverse curves at Thompsontown. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 10:19:11 AM |
| Location: |
Thompsontown, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9636(C40-9W) NS 8897(C40-9W) NS 9235(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
133 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Three views of NS 9886 Part II |
| Description: |
Passing beneath one of the few remaining signal bridges along this stretch of railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 9:50:53 AM |
| Location: |
Newport, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9886(C40-9W) NS 8851(C40-9) NS 9739(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
209 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Three views of NS 9886 Part I |
| Description: |
Mixed freight behind the 9886 crosses over from No.2 to No.1 track at Port as it follows NS 6752 through the single track. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 9:53:34 AM |
| Location: |
Newport, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9886(C40-9W) NS 8851(C40-9) NS 9739(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
245 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Three Views of NS 9886 Part III |
| Description: |
What a gorgeous sky with the clouds. I couldnt believe my fortune that the sun stayed dominant during the passage of three trains here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 9:32:21 AM |
| Location: |
Newport, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9886(C40-9W) NS 8851(C40-9) NS 9739(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
435 Comments: 1 |
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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 8593(C39-8) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NW 868013 |
| Description: |
Riding i NS 9886 East |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2010 Upload Date: 11/8/2010 11:17:25 AM |
| Location: |
Newport, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spruce Creek Valley II |
| Description: |
NS 9498 West at one of the many crossnngs of Spruce Creek near the 218 signals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:51:09 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 5486(ES40DC) |
| Views: |
101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading home |
| Description: |
The Altoona-Lewistown local frieght returns west, into the sundown, at the 225$signals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:56:46 AM |
| Location: |
Tipton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erbeo |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5806(GP38-3) |
| Views: |
755 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Highballing Huntingdon |
| Description: |
NS 9200 passe the former block station on a Friday morning. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:26:50 AM |
| Location: |
Huntingdon, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9200(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
124 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fast track |
| Description: |
Sweeping curve notwithstanding, this is fast track here and they roll. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:37:53 AM |
| Location: |
Mapleton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9355(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spruce Creek Valley II |
| Description: |
NS 9498 West at one of the many crossnngs of Spruce Creek near the 218 signals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:51:09 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9498(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spruce Creek Valley I |
| Description: |
NS 9841 East negotiates the tight curvature of Spruce Creek valley. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:48:27 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9841(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
111 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Left-handed |
| Description: |
NS 9843 comes through the wide curve where the railroad exits Jacks Narrows. The clouds are beginning to become a problem. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:42:07 AM |
| Location: |
Mapleton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9843(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
90 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Gliding up the vallfy of the Juniata |
| Description: |
NS 9843 has charge of mixed freight as it exits Jacks Narrows. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 10:45:04 AM |
| Location: |
Mapleton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9843(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sometimes you get what you need |
| Description: |
... in this case a westbound at the Qipton signals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 12:06:31 PM |
| Location: |
Tipton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9178(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
112 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bad karma or something |
| Description: |
I never seem to get to Lilly in decent light for eastbounds. It is always afternoon or overcast. So what else can one do but the best they can? NS 2713 East struggles up the grade on a late Octobers dusk. Time to head for Cresson for a cheesesteak at Vitos. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 12:18:38 PM |
| Location: |
Lilly, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2713(SD70M-2) |
| Views: |
128 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Black diamonds |
| Description: |
Coal is precious to the revenue deartment. NS 7500 slams through Huntingdon on a Saturday morning. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 11:43:19 AM |
| Location: |
Huntingdon, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 7500(ES40DC) |
| Views: |
185 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Looking good on high iron |
| Description: |
NS 9178 at the 225 sigSals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 12:08:21 PM |
| Location: |
Tipton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9178(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Round the bend |
| Description: |
NS 9431 West at MP225 |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 11:56:48 AM |
| Location: |
Tipton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9431(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Diversity |
| Description: |
That is what I like about a good ole ma`ifest. NS 9637s consist casually rQlls down the valley past the intermediate signals and former eastward home signal brudge for Forge interlocking. Now, of course, it is just straight rail. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 12:10:25 PM |
| Location: |
Tyrone Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
54 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Felicity at Forge |
| Description: |
Sipping coffee, enjoying a Tasty Pie and how pleasant for a nice eastbound manifest to show on a pleasant autumn morning. Forge Block Station used to sit on the opposite side of the tracks near the radio antenna, and was an interlocking where the railroad opened up to a four-track mainline once more after a constricted triple track segment through Spruce Creek valley. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 11:54:49 AM |
| Location: |
Tyrone Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
371 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
167 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: |
152 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Magnificent Magnolia |
| Description: |
The 4577 was the last westbound in sunlight at Magnolia this Sunday. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 12:59:38 AM |
| Location: |
Magnolia, WV |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 4577(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
224 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Adieu old friends? |
| Description: |
The kingdom of B&O CPLs along the line from Hancock to Cumberland is threatened and I fear this may have been my last opportunity to visit with them. CSX 4764 has a westbound manifest at Orleans Road. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 12:48:58 AM |
| Location: |
Orleans Cross Roads, WV |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 4764(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
757 Comments: 6 |
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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) |
| Views: |
138 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Your replacement is here |
| Description: |
Although the background appears as if a tornado had come by, it is the esthetic devastation that is most apparent here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 1:30:32 AM |
| Location: |
Crawfordsville, IN |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
278 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: |
166 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amidst the doldrums |
| Description: |
Only a local freight meandered about Vaunces other than a coal empty over several hours. Here the 6429 makes a shove towards Chillicothe in its daily chores. I miss cabooses like periods at the end of a sentence |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 1:17:26 AM |
| Location: |
Chillicothe, OH |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
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| Views: |
134 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lucky 8783 |
| Description: |
I stopped for awhile in Crawfordsville although I have had dismal luck in catching any traffic passing the old Monon blades - perhaps the last blades on a Class One? I waited awhile, then some more and when the sun was gone behind the storm front clouds I lingered awhile longer. Do you know the routine? I was almost ready to kick the ignition when I heard a horn. Could it be? And then the southbound blade dropped to stop and this ethanol train whistled through town. Blades are cool! |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 1:24:50 AM |
| Location: |
Crawfordsville, IN |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 8783(SD60M) |
| Views: |
280 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Storm light |
| Description: |
Of course, you can get some of the most dramatic shots imagineable with the right happenchance between rail and cloud traffic. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:43:52 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1049(C44-9W) CSX 8623(SD50-2) |
| Views: |
273 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hat holder |
| Description: |
You could not keep your hat on in the wind that prevailed this morning, unless your sombrero had a Cisco Kid type chin strap. BNSF 1049 is coming around the post-merger connection between the former BN and AT&SF and has come from Galesburg Yard to move east on the Transcon now. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:46:43 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1049(C44-9W) CSX 8623(SD50-2) |
| Views: |
262 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arriving in town |
| Description: |
BNSF 4096 has a manifest for the receiving yard. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:49:27 AM |
| Location: |
Galesburg, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4096(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
197 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
No sun today |
| Description: |
BNSF 7577 streaks through Stronghust, IL past the Santa Fe style cantilvers. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:28:02 AM |
| Location: |
Stronghurst, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7577(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
106 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Good morning, sunshine |
| Description: |
BNSF 8807 greets the sun that floods through a break in the storm clouds. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:49:03 AM |
| Location: |
Galesburg, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8807(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
226 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
A Plant |
| Description: |
BNSF 9991 has a coal train departing Galesburg under the clasic Q signals. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:22:40 AM |
| Location: |
Galesburg, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 9991(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
236 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
After the rain |
| Description: |
A strong front blew in during the night, attended by strong winds that had the windmill creaking as it rotated, while a coal train passes on the former BN, nee CB&Q line. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:41:42 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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65 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Classic Q |
| Description: |
A signal installation that virtually screams Burlington Route. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:20:33 AM |
| Location: |
Galesburg, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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| Views: |
65 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) |
| Views: |
267 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Rail City |
| Description: |
Galesburg has a strong railroad presence - from whistle blowing from all directions and I doubt there is any route through town that does not cross a set of tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 11:26:46 AM |
| Location: |
Galesburg, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
92 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
With the wind at its tail |
| Description: |
UP 7875 has a fast moving intermodal eastbound on the Transcon. Another unit is tucked in mid-train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/26/2010 Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:55:18 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron, IL |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7875(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
232 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not looking too bad |
| Description: |
It may not be the best angle with the location of the afternoon sun, yet NS 9745 still looks decent here as it crusises beneath the signal bridge at Tipton. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2010 Upload Date: 11/9/2010 12:02:19 PM |
| Location: |
Tipton, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9745(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
109 Comments: 0 |
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