Saw a lost pair of UP units today. They were on the point of a generator train. And this one was on Sun morning, a yard full of oi, coal and ponies! Serious Horse-ponies!!
Worked in Terry on Saturday, Sat here for an hour Saturday evening hoping for a train, but no luck. And on Friday these were setting on the east end, almost looks pre BNSF! And then a pumpkin ruined the illusion!! And here is the current local power, used for Sidney and Miles City.
I see Korea, hopefully NOT N. Korea!! And those flatcars, I don't think I've ever seen one with that many trucks, they're really heavy duty!
South Korea is the Republic of Korea. North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Those loads are from South Korea. Each unit weighs 215,000 pounds, or 107.5 Tons. I also am surprised at the number of trucks under each unit. Covered hoppers rated for 100 Ton loads have only four axles, or am I missing something?
My thought is that they have something to do with heating. Pumping the shale oil from Canada may require that it be heated to flow? These remind me of very large heating or cooling coils. And TransCanada is one of the oil outfits. It would be a fun load to run!
Yesterday evening these guys were sitting and pondering when they would leave! The BC Rail unit is pretty neat! And a pair of warbonnets together for the slobbering warbonnet nuts!!
Those are some of the nicest warbonnet Dash-9s still left on BNSF. I call the rest of the Thrash-9 or Trash-9, due to their conditions.
Yeah, I've seen a few like this recently too, as though someone has washed them by hand and they are super clean! i'm pretty sure BNSF is not paying to have these repainted, since most of the locos look terrible now!
A UP blade train was here on Wed. Here it is parked on the Sidney branch waiting for a crew, which didn't happen for several more hours. A friend heard it arriving into Sidney after 7. And an evening shot from the street side of the yard, which was empty at the moment, which is fairly unusual. The 70MAC is part of a dead and stored line, and the GE is on the service track. And this guy has a cool number! Held us up at the crossing for 20 or more long minutes.
Saw these business cars setting in the yard overnite and most of the next day, and was hoping to get to watch them leave. Here's a video of the left side as they pulled out of the yard, And the other side as they approach the crest of the hump on the east end..
And yesterday a friend and I went to catch some action at Hodges! It is fun to see a loaded coal train start from a dead stop on this steep grade!
And just a couple of stills from those videos And when that business train was leaving the yard track, I am guessing about 7 track.
I only saw two people on the train. Since it was parked in the middle of the yard, I would guess they were on the way to some function out east.
