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Leftovers From the Morning

Here are two more shots from Thursday morning April 2nd when I was out to get the UP 1988 and the BNSF 9647. While I was talking to the engineer on the UP 1988 in North Yard this northbound train on Choctaw Sub Main One almost snuck by before I could raise the camera.

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Two Special Locomotives

On April 2nd I took the day off from work to run errands before leaving Friday morning for Flatonia to attend Saturday’s spring Railfan Pavilion Day. Early on I got a call that the BNSF 9647 was southbound on the UP Choctaw Sub with a loaded coal train and that the Katy Heritage Unit [...]

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Finishing Day One

My first of three days at Abo was coming to a close, and next the dispatcher told an eastbound empty coal train it would be stopping at Sias to meet two westbounds that would come through the canyon as soon as the HBARTUL9 had cleared West Scholle.  The sun came out for a few minutes [...]

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Timeliness

Today’s blog photo was taken just a little over one-half hour ago at 4:39pm on the way home from work in Boaz Park in Benbrook of a westbound UP merchandise train with a CSX GEVO leading.

I picked up a Canon Powershot SD870is at a close-out sale for CompUSA so as to have a small camera I could [...]

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