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quakers1 · Jan 31, 2014

UP 3872 (SD70M) and UP 6009 (AC44CWCTE) lead an auto train with a well car thrown in the front through Hoxie, AR:

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Hoxie...cRWN06Io6u48fT8Ot82Mkw&cbp=12,175.24,,0,-2.04

DustinJRaiken · Feb 4, 2014

Here's a nice angle. An old, weathered UP GP15-1 does some local work as a Frontrunner commuter train passes by. http://goo.gl/maps/k7yMM

JCitron · Feb 4, 2014

DustinJRaiken said:
Here's a nice angle. An old, weathered UP GP15-1 does some local work as a Frontrunner commuter train passes by. http://goo.gl/maps/k7yMM

Nice! Did you look to the right at the busy yard?

John

oknotsen · Feb 4, 2014

Slightly closer to (my) home. The local passenger service crosses the local harbour:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=51.9034...=bARIrmS_yhL7jB2HfZWjKg&cbp=12,283.1,,1,-0.56
I doubt anyone is going to sit down to do real-life trainspotting for this train, because during a workday it goes 4 times per hour in each direction :hehe:.

ex-railwayman · Feb 5, 2014

This might be cheating a little bit, but, I was in Phoenix, AZ about 10 years ago and watched a bit of rail switching at the main yard, on doing a Google tonight I saw the map of the current site, but, when you zoom in a bit closer nearly all the locomotives disappear, it must be a Google thing, :hehe:, anyway, I'll pop the screen up.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

EDIT: Sorry Dave, I made a mess of getting the URL up, I hope you can see what I was referring to.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=...d=112861489934698621633.0004649e7660a6c47d4ce

quakers1 · Feb 5, 2014

I was checking out the BNSF Yard in Springfield and stumbled upon this steel coil train waiting to depart:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=37.2254...id=ogp1TZO0Rn3YfALA2TGYjA&cbp=12,16.91,,0,2.8

JCitron · Feb 5, 2014

quakers1 said:
I was checking out the BNSF Yard in Springfield and stumbled upon this steel coil train waiting to depart:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=37.2254...id=ogp1TZO0Rn3YfALA2TGYjA&cbp=12,16.91,,0,2.8

That's cool. When I was down that way in 2009, there were no trains around for the four days I was there. There were track crews out on the mainline fixing and upgrading stuff. There were sections that were completely pulled up with welded rail crews putting new rail in place. Cool to watch as we drove by, but a bit disappointing too at the same time.

John

luvintrainz · Feb 9, 2014

NS Coal train waits to depart in Roanoke, VA.
https://www.google.com/maps/preview...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1snMLrYXd2WytQKYhBYuXA-w!2e0

P.S. I've actually been there!

cascaderailroad · Feb 9, 2014

Whats up with those 2 buildings in Roanoke, the roofs are missing, was there a fire, or collapse ?

oknotsen · Feb 9, 2014

luvintrainz said:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1snMLrYXd2WytQKYhBYuXA-w!2e0

Slightly to the East of that, hidden on a siding, some old NW material:
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.2...ddCzQeQiwJY7pw&cbp=12,239.1,,0,-0.64&t=h&z=19

luvintrainz · Feb 9, 2014

cascaderailroad said:
Whats up with those 2 buildings in Roanoke, the roofs are missing, was there a fire, or collapse ?

I think it was a fire, I could be wrong though.

davesnow · Feb 12, 2014

Old Trackmobile in New Prague, Minnesota:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Minnesota,+New+Prague&hl=en&ll=44.543612,-93.579955&spn=0.004619,0.009645&sll=35.820989,-90.668736&sspn=0.16703,0.308647&t=h&hnear=New+Prague,+Le+Sueur,+Minnesota&z=17&layer=c&cbll=44.543612,-93.581748&panoid=WZwWcN0nMMSZ7UY4SRhmUg&cbp=13,206.97,,2,0.17

On down the line... GP40M-2 UP #1514:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Minn...id=ndRdLA6nYO_Bv45D_so1MQ&cbp=13,17.9,,2,1.28

JCitron · Feb 12, 2014

luvintrainz said:
NS Coal train waits to depart in Roanoke, VA.
https://www.google.com/maps/preview...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1snMLrYXd2WytQKYhBYuXA-w!2e0

P.S. I've actually been there!

This is a cool place to visit.

I've only passed through on the nearby highway.

It looks like there is a construction crew rebuilding the buildings.

John

quakers1 · Feb 12, 2014

An eastbound tank train (I think it's ethanol after further examining the cars) rolls along the BNSF Staples Sub near Frazee, Minnesota:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fraz...d=di6aONabB6GxPqZE-W-Eug&cbp=12,15.98,,0,1.19

If I could look at the hazmat placards closer, I could tell for sure what the train is carrying.

gg14835 · Feb 13, 2014

cascaderailroad said:
Whats up with those 2 buildings in Roanoke, the roofs are missing, was there a fire, or collapse ?

They are the old Virginian Railway Station in Roanoke built in 1909. Last I knew there were plans to have them restored.

SergeantC · Feb 14, 2014

New Jersey Transit #4110 in Hoboken, NJ.

http://goo.gl/maps/rqPI8

SergeantC · Feb 14, 2014

Here's something you don't see every day: Norfolk Southern #9649 in Minneapolis:

http://goo.gl/maps/hMHT1

(I think the NS has some sort of run-through oil train, which would explain the power being here.)

ThomasFan101 · Feb 14, 2014

Norfolk Southern D9-40CW #9089 (followed by D9-40CW #9563 and SD70M-2 #2671) heads south out of Elkhart, Indiana towards Dunlap, Goshen, Ligonier and eventually Toledo, Ohio.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.672...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sywzXTxkfHqJfLcJesPbdaA!2e0

4449tj · Feb 19, 2014

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mcguirel · Feb 20, 2014

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.7...lefpGmJUJBOmQ4oQ&cbp=11,5.38,,0,2.48&t=m&z=16

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