These are a couple pics from my trip to Durand Michigan yesterday. That is the old train station there on the left.
Still looking west I can see that all those red lights mean there are no trains coming from behind me. I then went inside the station to look around.
That’s when this one snuck in eastbound. I missed the two engines. I did not hear it coming because Durand is a “no-train-horn” zone. A local ordinance keeps things quiet because so many trains go through here because of the rail yard.
Saw some cool looking graffiti on some of the cars. These rail cars are headed east to Flint Michigan to get loaded up with pickup trucks and cars again. It was the only train I saw.
Eastbound BNSF Intermodal Train at Floyd, MO by Zach Pumphery
Via Flickr:
Another snow squall moves through as BNSF Train Z SBDWSP4 13U blasts by the elevators at Floyd on the BNSF Marceline Sub. down Main Track 1 with engineer Scott Krause at the helm once again. I don't remember the last time we had such constant snow around here, but today another inch fell in the KC area, so I took advantage of the conditions. Locomotives: BNSF 5753, BNSF 4165, BNSF 5081, BNSF 7214, BNSF 7294 1-15-24 Floyd, MO
How to replace a test cock tube on 645 EMD engine locomotive.
That sound! Hmmmmm
Every once in a while, I see something neat and also go, “I know what that is!” -- and I don’t merely mean about the massive EMD645E3 2-stroke diesel engine!
I mean, I see Southern Pacific heritage!
I see snowsheds and summit tunnels, the Sierra, Cascades, and the Tehachapi Loop -- I. see. a. living. breathing. tunnel motor.
For kicks and giggles, here’s my suppositional identification, which might be wrong, but there’s not a lot of surviving SD40T-2s left, sadly -- I am counting on someone to correct me if I get it wrong lol @eltristan @identifying-trains-in-posts-too @identifying-trains-in-posts @identifying-trains-inposts
Southern Pacific 8515, grimey and glorious -- Speed Lettering and at some point sold to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, TRRA 3001 and still going as ILSX 1310 on the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service
Looking at some random downloads, realized a common theme was that Tunnel #29 is The. Cutest. Tunnel.
The 2% grade from Denver up to the Moffat Tunnel crawls through South Bend Canyon (along South Bend Creek) with superfluous tunnels and a surfeit of sharp curves, thanks to the mandate of then-Chief Engineer H.A. Sumneso who surveyed the Moffat Route's well-nicknamed "tunnel district" at bountiful π/1 ratio of rail to "as the crow flies" distance as he tried every trick not to make it steeper than 2%
A blasted rock bore barely 78 feet in length, tight-clearance Tunnel 29 on the Moffat Route is at milepost 36.38 and sandwiched between one of Sumneso's super-tight 12° cruves and the "curved bridge with no name" over South Bend Creek (which is officially named "Bridge 36.45" after it's milepost location) The feature on the creek's right bank seems to be locally nicknamed the Gibraltar Cliffs, from whence railfans look down on the tiny trains below.
The cutest tunnel? Yep. Did I mention the Ski Train?
Eastbound Amtrak "Missouri River Runner" Passenger Train at Lee's Summit, MO por Zach Pumphery
Por Flickr:
A Siemens Charger SC-44 leads Amtrak Train 314 into Lee's Summit on the UP Sedalia Sub. on time with several older passenger cars in the consist. The Ex-NP diner is followed by a trio of rebuilt baggage cars and both of Patrick Henry Creative Promotions' cars, "Evelyn A. Henry" and "Warren R. Henry". With the private car announcement made by Amtrak the day prior, who knows how often this will be seen in the future? Locomotive: IDTX 4623 Rolling Stock: PPCX 800149, PPCX 800148 3-29-18 Lee's Summit, MO