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Can't seem to get away from the BNSF power on foreign rails. Six month old SD70ACe 8494 and ES44AC 6338 move a westbound coal train on CSX tracks that border the steel works in Gary, IN. Because of the security and the scary neighborhoods, this is not a recommended location. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Westbound Metra train 1233 is approaching Berwyn, IL with F40PHM-2 198 in the lead. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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The California Zephyr is just leaving Chicagoland on its 2000 mile run to Emeryville, CA. Starting to get me thinking of home. P42DC's 206 and 90 are in charge this day. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Metra train 1235 flies through Berwyn as an express on its way to Aurora, IL. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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A long eastbound with BNSF 7905 and 7962 rolls through Berwyn, IL. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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A final eastbound train, a stacker with BNSF 4344 and 5748 and 94 stacks rounds out a successful trip. Off to the airport. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Ambush! On the way to O'Hare, got stuck at the gates as Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern SD40-2 6367 comes striding across the crossing with CP AC44CW 9546 trailing with a grain train. This is east of Bensenville Yard headed towards downtown Chicago. |
Date:
2015-05-26
Added:
2016-11-25 |
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CN SD75I 5628 and 5696 bring their westbound train off the shared track through downtown South Bend, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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CN SD75I 5628 and 5696 bring their westbound train off the shared track through downtown South Bend, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS C40-8W 8321 and SD60E 6947 roll a 95 car westbound freight out of the Elkhart Yard. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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New York Central E8A 4085 sits outside the National NYC Museum in Elkhart, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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New York Central E8A 4085 sits outside the National NYC Museum in Elkhart, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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More foreign power working its way West on the NS. CP 8508, 8625, 8949 and BNSF 8045 lead an auto train towards Chicago. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS C40-8 8865 and SD60E 6966 prepare to depart eastbound at Elkhart, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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CEFX 1047 and CP 8810 roll another westbound around the corner at the east end of Elkhart, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-23
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2016-11-24 |
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Penn Central GG1 electric 4882 rests at the National NYC Museum, definitely out of place in a collection of NYC equipment. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Norfolk Southern's first ES44DC, 7500, leads UP SD70M 4502 and NS ES44DC 7697 as they tip-toe into the yard throat tracks for Elkhart Yard. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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A broadside of NYC E8A 4085. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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A westbound grain train waits for space at Elkhart Yard with C44-9W 9737, C40-8W 8409, and C40-8 8837. |
Date:
2015-05-23
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2016-11-24 |
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Seven trains in an hour at Goshen, IN. Leading off, the hot eastbound UPS train with 30 cars lead by SD70M-2 2675 and C44-9W 9672. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Right on the tail of the UPS eastbound is a eastbound stack train with SD70ACe 1140 and C44-9W 9818 and 9362. |
Date:
2015-05-23
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2016-11-24 |
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After 20 minutes, another eastbound, a 70 car auto train with CP 8927 and 8740, comes striding by. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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As soon as the CP eastbound clears, a westbound stack train appears with C44-9W's 9934 and 9795 and 81 stack cars. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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After the stack train, a few minutes pass and a Marion Sub train comes up to Goshen with NS C44-9W's 9231 and 9067 in the lead and 89 cars. |
Date:
2015-05-23
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2016-11-24 |
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The sixth train of the hour is another eastbound manifest with SD60E 6928 and SD90MAC 7325 (ex UP 8231/3715) trailing and 81 cars. |
Date:
2015-05-23
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2016-11-24 |
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The seventh and last train at Goshen this afternoon is a short westbound stacker with C44-9W 9290 and C40-8W 8452 and 42 cars. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Back at Elkhart Yard, a main line crew change is made for a long 117 car eastbound stack train with NS 8067-9369-7700-8329. |
Date:
2015-05-23
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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A mixed bag of Norfolk Southern GE products, ES44AC 8139, C44-9W 9221, and BNSF ES44DC 7341 get their train underway west of Elkhart, IN on its way to Chicago. |
Date:
2015-05-22
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2016-11-24 |
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NS C44-9W 9047 and 9243 start to pull on their grain train as it leaves the east end of Elkhart Yard. The Amtrak station is off to the right and the NYC Museum is off to the left. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS GE's 9047 and 9243 pull out of the east end of Elkhart Yard. |
Date:
2015-05-22
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2016-11-24 |
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NS 9047 and 9243 pass under the signal bridge protecting the junction with the secondary line to Bristol, IN with the former NYC double track main line. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Aways from home and in the Land of Goshen, BNSF SD70MAC 9883 and AC44CW 5642 lead NS GP38-2 5339 on a grain train westbound through Goshen, IN. All this way and still there is BNSF power running around. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Now we're into big time NS railroading. A 120 car NORX coal train with 2607-6663-9971-8777, an amazing SD70M/SD60/C44-9W/C40-8 lashup. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS 7713 and 9862 (ES44DC and C44-9W) cross a long auto train from the Marion Running Track to Main 1 at Goshen, IN. The 80 car train has come up the secondary from Marion, IN (and points further south) which departs the NYC main around the corner in the distance. anything headed to or from Marion will be on the far right track looking eastward east of Goshen. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS 7713 and 9862 swing into the curve west of Goshen, IN with a long autos train in tow. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Three of the 1100 C44-9W's the NS owns hustle a eastbound freight through the west end of Goshen, IN. Power is 9859-9076-9283 with 113 cars. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS 9859-9076-9283 pass MP 413 of the old NYC Chicago Main at Goshen, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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More NS weirdness. Another eastbound waiting for a little congestion to settle sits at Dunlap, IN with C40-8 8796, SD90MAC 7258 (former UP 8029/3501) and GP38-3 5827 (rebuilt from a GP50). |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Savannah and Atlanta heritage unit NS 1065 (SD70ACe) and NS 8883 (C40-8) wait for traffic to clear ahead of them on the NYC Main at Dunlap, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Close up of Savannah and Atlanta heritage unit NS 1065 (SD70ACe) at Dunlap, IN. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Getting into South Bend, got ambushed by an eastbound CN (former Grand Trunk) train, so was out of position for this westbound with C44-9W 2665 and C40-8W 2196 (former Santa Fe 861). |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Another shot of CN 2665 and 2196, westbound in South Bend, IN just after coming off the mile of joint track that CN shares with NS through downtown South Bend. |
Date:
2015-05-22
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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METRA train 42 eastbound on the Union Pacific West Line, is about to make the station stop at Elmhurst, IL. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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METRA F40PH-2 105 screams through Congress Park with a midday westbound train (1229) on the BNSF's triple track main. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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BNSF ES44DC 7506 and C44-9W 5305 lead 92 wells almost completely J. B. Hunt containers at Berwyn, IL. The train is moving slowly eastward as it prepares to enter Cicero Yard. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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BNSF 7506 and 5305 roll eastward past the Berwyn, IL depot. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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BNSF C44-9W 5000 and ES44AC 5796 blast off with a Cicero train westbound at Berwyn, IL. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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BNSF C44-9W 4191 and 977 lead an almost endless string of empty oil cans westbound at Berwyn, IL. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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METRA Winnebago F40PHM-2 201 rolls train 1231 to a stop with a mid-day local at Berwyn,IL. |
Date:
2015-05-21
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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My railfanning trip to the East Coast started at Lamberts Point, VA, on the west side of Norfolk, where the NS has a large coal loading facility. Here is a collection of rebuilds working for the NS: NS GP40-2 3101 was rebuilt in 2008 from a NS GP38AC. It gained both a turbo and slug controls. NS RP-E4D slugs 918 and 936 were rebuilt from an N&W GP9 and GP18 respectively. |
Date:
2015-05-19
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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Another Lamberts Point switcher (there must have been four working at once) with RP-E4C slug 740 (made from a NS GP50) and GP40-2 3087 (rebuilt from NS GP40 1370) pull another cut out. |
Date:
2015-05-19
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS GP40-2 3100 with RP-E4 slug 913 and RP-E4D slug 932 shuffle more coal cars at Lamberts Point, VA. |
Date:
2015-05-19
Added:
2016-11-24 |
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NS GP40-2 3100, slug RP-E4 913, and slug RP-E4D 932 at Lamberts Point, VA |
Date:
2015-05-19
Added:
2016-11-24 |
