me and Jack had planned to chase down the A&C near cadiz Ca, but our plans changed a bit since we missed the interchange. So with no green and white to shoot we decided to check out the revamped T&T outside of Ludlow. Again, though we missed the BNSF drop off from the "cadiz local" but we got a shot of an older UP boxcar, course Jack got my SUV in the pic

we were about to get back on I-40 into barstow when we heard a horn! I spun the SUV back around and literally went bannanas! it was that ellusive "nuclear train" that T&T ran 3 nights a week it was leaving Ludlow early i fumbled for my digital to get a shot of this elusive train since it ran mostly late at night!

"Well" I tell jack "I got a full tank of gas and my CC is payed off lets go to Beatty for the weekend...the railfan way!" We missed it at Baker but stopped at death valley junction... somewhere in my mess of pics from this weekend I got a good one of the abandoned station. The other red and yellow set of SD-40s was on the siding dropping off tankcars of "domestic water" for, I'm assuming, the power plant out there. Got a decent one of the "yellow terror" as locals call it BUT of course I didn't zoom enough as I was trying to get the whole "cask car"

the hogger in the "canteen local" invited us up into the cab, we shared some gatorade and he mentioned the "ghost train" was making a maiden run. Of course my camera finger wasn't fast enough to get #7 :'(

it was pretty uneventful the rest of the way as we could not catch up to the "YT" which actually stands for Yucca Train (denoting yucca flats at Nellis AFB) BUT we did get to see the Rhyolite local preparing to swap cars with the canteen train. even though Rhyolite is a ghost town (though a quasi tourist attraction) the old station still looks elegant as she did in the '30's

but then a shock! Thinking the "canteen was coming in a bit fast the YT shot by I was lucky i was taking pics of the station (me and my lighning fingers:hehe: )

we roamed around Rhyolite a bit to watch the I/C and chased the "rhylo" back to Beatty Nev where we are now. Jack took this shot of the 38 switching more domestic water cars. Those red and yellow paint scemes sure look gaudy but I guess when you are hauling nuclear waste you wanna be seen! We'll turn in now and probably catch the tourist train to Nellis AFB and the museum there. I'm grabbing the sleeping bags though cuz I definately wanna see the YT (and maybe bribe my way in with my military ID and my camera
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we were about to get back on I-40 into barstow when we heard a horn! I spun the SUV back around and literally went bannanas! it was that ellusive "nuclear train" that T&T ran 3 nights a week it was leaving Ludlow early i fumbled for my digital to get a shot of this elusive train since it ran mostly late at night!

"Well" I tell jack "I got a full tank of gas and my CC is payed off lets go to Beatty for the weekend...the railfan way!" We missed it at Baker but stopped at death valley junction... somewhere in my mess of pics from this weekend I got a good one of the abandoned station. The other red and yellow set of SD-40s was on the siding dropping off tankcars of "domestic water" for, I'm assuming, the power plant out there. Got a decent one of the "yellow terror" as locals call it BUT of course I didn't zoom enough as I was trying to get the whole "cask car"

the hogger in the "canteen local" invited us up into the cab, we shared some gatorade and he mentioned the "ghost train" was making a maiden run. Of course my camera finger wasn't fast enough to get #7 :'(

it was pretty uneventful the rest of the way as we could not catch up to the "YT" which actually stands for Yucca Train (denoting yucca flats at Nellis AFB) BUT we did get to see the Rhyolite local preparing to swap cars with the canteen train. even though Rhyolite is a ghost town (though a quasi tourist attraction) the old station still looks elegant as she did in the '30's

but then a shock! Thinking the "canteen was coming in a bit fast the YT shot by I was lucky i was taking pics of the station (me and my lighning fingers:hehe: )

we roamed around Rhyolite a bit to watch the I/C and chased the "rhylo" back to Beatty Nev where we are now. Jack took this shot of the 38 switching more domestic water cars. Those red and yellow paint scemes sure look gaudy but I guess when you are hauling nuclear waste you wanna be seen! We'll turn in now and probably catch the tourist train to Nellis AFB and the museum there. I'm grabbing the sleeping bags though cuz I definately wanna see the YT (and maybe bribe my way in with my military ID and my camera

