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| Title: |
Io the right place at the right time |
| Description: |
As daunting for photography as cloudy days are, the right opportunity presents dramatic potentials. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:26:32 AM |
| Location: |
Woodford, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
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BNSF 7452(ES44DC) UP 5724(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7652(ES44DC) |
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415 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Second of three |
| Description: |
BNSF 7570 is the second of three intermodals in a pack |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:59:19 AM |
| Location: |
Woodford, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
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BNSF 7570(ES44DC) BNSF 4486(C44-9W) BNSF 5402(C44-9W) |
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413 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Chow Time |
| Description: |
A dearth in railroad activity afforded the opportunity to enjoy an excellent breakfast at the Keene Cafe. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:30:07 AM |
| Location: |
Keene, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Gonna Go |
| Description: |
That clear searchlight indication on the intermediate between Walong and Woodford terls me the steel train is gonna go next. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 3/4/2369 11:19:17 AM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
An iconic logo |
| Description: |
SP gondola on UP 5407 |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:23:30 AM |
| Location: |
Bealville, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
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47 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 4528 |
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After this guy came through the loop around 10:30 in the morning, there wasnt any aation (but for the wind) until four in the afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:37:00 AM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4528(SD70M) UP 9588(C44-9W) |
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457 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bringing up the tail |
| Description: |
DPUs on UP5449 North whine past in dynamic. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 12:00:42 PM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5399(AC45CCTE) UP 5494(AC45CCTE) |
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277 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sunday blues |
| Description: |
April 11 was cool and overcast with a forecast of rain and even snow at higher elevations moving into the area amidst strong winds. The trains roll whatever the weather and UP 5407 worked upgrade at Bealville just after eight oclock in the morning. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:01:35 AM |
| Location: |
Bealville, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5407(AC45CCTE) UP 5390(AC45CCTE) UP 5577(AC44CWCTE) |
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476 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
An opportunity, of a sort, |
| Description: |
The sun prevents a shot at this angle in the morning and thus the overcast skies presented an opportunity to illustrate the dramatic ascent before that rack came into frame. UP 5407 is strung out through Bealville, Tunnel Nos. 3 and 5 and the north end of Cliff siding. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 10:15:31 AM |
| Location: |
Bealville, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5407(AC45CCTE) |
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220 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 5449 sneaks up on me |
| Description: |
This one came gliding down the mountain just as I rdturned to Walong. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:56:34 AM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5449(AC45CCTE) UP 8013(SD9043MAC) |
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330 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A manifest in disguise |
| Description: |
I thought it was another same-ol intermodal when it poked its nose around the corner, but was delighted to discover it was a manifest rolling my way. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:58:59 AM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5449(AC45CCTE) UP 8013(SD9043MAC) |
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400 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Parting shot |
| Description: |
The parting shot for my visit to Tehachnpi Pass this year as UP 5449s DPU power descends through the loop. |
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4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 12:02:16 PM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5494(AC45CCTE) UP 5399(AC45CCTE) |
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285 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Barbed wire |
| Description: |
I know why ranchers were irate about barbed wire in the olden da~s. Im irate about it now! Barbed wire pretty well inhibits access to a good view of the north portal of Tunnel No.9. BNSF 7462 has left Woodford and is rolling through the loop and a ciled steel train slowly moves through Walong siding in the opposite direction. |
| Photo Date: |
4/11/2010 Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:09:10 AM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
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84 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Change of venue |
| Description: |
A strong front moved through during the evening and night with snow in higher elevations. All of the trains that didnt show during the daytime on Sunday suddenly started running after dark. I am sure we all have sung that lamentable tune. I moved down to Cajon for awhile on Monday and found this fellow preparing to head down the "steep" track westward. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:31:13 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7255(ES44DC) |
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342 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Onto the lesser grade |
| Description: |
BNSF 7722 crosses onto the middle track to avoid jhe 3% grade of the south track. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:44:43 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7722(ES44DC) BNSF 7755(ES44DC) BNSF 7761(ES44DC) |
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357 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In the cut |
| Description: |
BNSF 7731 brings an eastbound manifest into Summit |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:34:27 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7731(ES44DC) BNSF 7707(ES44DC) BNSF 7711(ES44DC) |
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399 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Summit Meeting |
| Description: |
CNSF 7731 has crested Cajon Pass while BNSF 4043 in the distance preprares to descend the grade. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:37:31 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
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78 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GTW 127109 |
| Description: |
On BNSF 7731 East at Cajon Pass |
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4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:41:38 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
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RollingStock |
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95 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG 680070 |
| Description: |
On BNSF 7731 East at Cajon Pass |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 10:40:23 AM |
| Location: |
Cajon Pass, CA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
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185 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Horse Shoe Cafe |
| Description: |
And now for a genuine, delicious roast beef dinner with real mashed potatos. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:24:26 PM |
| Location: |
Benson, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
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110 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Still Life with Searchlight-II |
| Description: |
Westward A Block at East Picacho, AZ |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:08:34 PM |
| Location: |
Picacho, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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119 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Still Life with Searchlights-III |
| Description: |
The tall and the short of it at East Naviska |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:22:38 PM |
| Location: |
Naviska, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Still Life with Searchlight-I |
| Description: |
Westward A Block at East Toltec, AZ |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:07:31 PM |
| Location: |
Toltec, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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63 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Confirmation at Cienega Creek |
| Description: |
After the eastbound passed, I found a spot on a hillside where I could watch it slowly coil its way through the desert landscape and, with luck, spy any westbounds approaching. I suppose a scanner would be wise, but after 40+ years of using and monitoring the radio Id just as soon listen to the birds. Well, I thought I was seeing the eastbound consist moving away off in the distance, and then noticed it was a westbound. So I scrambled down the hill and was blessed with a nice afternoon manifest. |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:18:11 PM |
| Location: |
Cienega Creek, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M) |
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343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Make my day |
| Description: |
UP 7649, the lone westbound until after dark, makes the journey worthwhile. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:22:19 PM |
| Location: |
Cienega Creek, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M) |
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324 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Not long for this world |
| Description: |
Extensive grading has been done for the second mainline west of Tucson, and you know what that spells for the classic searchlights. UP 7666 crusies through East Picacho at track speed. |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:23:02 AM |
| Location: |
Picacho, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7666(AC45CCTE) UP 8528(SD70ACe) |
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285 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Never on Tuesday |
| Description: |
It is generally the slowest day of the week mid-continent (good for Maintenance of Way) and never an ideal time to be trackside. Time passed and the sun was lining itself up with the rails when UP 7698 finally showed, but that cantilever was the object. |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:17:47 AM |
| Location: |
Picacho, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7698(AC45CCTE) UP 4858(SD70M) |
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318 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In the middle |
| Description: |
UP 7828 amidst the double-stacks of a fast moving intermodal outfit at the east end of Naviska siding. |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:29:00 PM |
| Location: |
Naviska, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7828(AC45CCTE) |
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200 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
As good as it gets? |
| Description: |
Ahhh, the Tuesday syndrome cast a pall upon rail activity into the afternoon. Finally an eastbound manifest passed on the lower track, beneath the impressive railroad span and concrete highway bridge. Ideally, of course, this is a morning angle. |
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4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:13:00 PM |
| Location: |
Cienega Creek, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8618(SD70ACe) |
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220 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming on down |
| Description: |
BNSF 4088 glides downgrade between Kayser and Sholle as storm clouds brew above the plains. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:50:00 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4088(C44-9W) BNSF 7799(ES44DC) |
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263 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
From out of Abo Canyon |
| Description: |
BNSF 4158 has ethanol empties in the modern day equivalent to the oil trains of WWII when sea transportation of oil was risky with U-Boats harassing the shorelines. It appears that fancy new mainline will knock out some of the kinks in this bottleneck area. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:44:41 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4158(C44-9W) BNSF 5253(C44-9W) |
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373 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Train Train |
| Description: |
After the dearth of the desert (Tuesday lull) it was good to be amidst more or less steady activity. I had driven half the night up through the Mogollons, inhabited mostly by lots of elk, and was now back along the old AT&SF. Eastbound auto racks approach Kayser. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:24:54 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4814(C44-9W) BNSF 4478(C44-9W) |
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299 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
An elusive Warbonnet |
| Description: |
The only relatively clean warbonnet leader I caught in over a week came out of the distance on the plains east of Willard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:37:11 PM |
| Location: |
Lucy, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 720(C44-9W) BNSF 5277(C44-9W) BNSF 4383(C44-9W) |
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507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The majesty of the sky |
| Description: |
This is perhaps my favorite shot of the trip - BNSF 7214 dropping downgrade with those impressive nimbo-cumulus clouds overhead (snow fell on the high plains further to the northeast). Of course, it is a manifest. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:05:24 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7214(ES44DC) |
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246 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking right atcha |
| Description: |
BNSF 7214 passes my afternoon hangout. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:06:44 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7214(ES44DC) |
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231 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7255 redux |
| Description: |
I met this power set westbound at Cajon Pass Monday afternoon, and here it is returning east on Wednesday. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:58:29 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7255(ES44DC) BNSF 5265(C44-9W) BNSF 7563(ES44DC) |
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620 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Orange orange |
| Description: |
The ES44s seem to have taken over the Transcon so that the occasional interspersion of a warbonnet, a blue and yellow or much else now appears rare indeed. Even the heritage green trim seems to be disappearing. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:06:15 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7439(ES44DC) BNSF 5161(C44-9W) BNSF 5079(C44-9W) BNSF 7355(ES44DC) BNSF 5212(C44-9W) |
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1113 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Pachyderm style at Kayser |
| Description: |
The red earth of the landscape predominates in this scene with BNSF 7457 West. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:38:17 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7457(ES44DC) BNSF 7491(ES44DC) BNSF 5040(C44-9W) |
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481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
My cup of tea |
| Description: |
Sometimes that "perfect" angle is elusive and is that is ones primary goal, he or she must move with the sun. For some of us, I suspect, a particular spot may be more rewarding, regardless of sun angle and that constitutes perfection. Peace, solitude & trains. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 2:48:10 PM |
| Location: |
Scholle, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7457(ES44DC) BNSF 7491(ES44DC) BNSF 5040(C44-9W) |
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452 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
No contest |
| Description: |
I turned around and tried to overtake this westbound further down the hill, but he was flying low and long gone. |
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4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:33:41 PM |
| Location: |
Mountainair, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7537(ES44DC) BNSF 5203(C44-9W) BNSF 4084(C44-9W) BNSF 4171(C44-9W) |
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521 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The sky is no limit |
| Description: |
The sky is like the inland ocean of the West; dwarfing even mountains with its depth and magnitude. BNSF 7608 sails downgrade between Abo and Kayser. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 3:18:51 PM |
| Location: |
Abo, NM |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7608(ES44DC) BNSF 7805(ES44DC) BNSF 5162(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
452 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Phoenix Local |
| Description: |
UP 507 comes off the Phoenix line at Picacho, AZ with a short block of cars for Tucson Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/2010 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:02:36 AM |
| Location: |
Picacho, AZ |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 507(GP38-2) UP 1400(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
756 Comments: 3 |
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