For ya'll that model vehicle marshaling yards, gotta have a RiP track! Two cars having trucks replaced, would make a neat little scene. Just have to make that hydraulic jack.
In a case of serendipity, I found Blue Ridge Southern working the most distant extremity of their line yesterday at East Flat Rock, NC, once on NS's line to Saluda, NC and the famous grade. I'd taken a shortcut, expecting to see the usual cuts of stored empty woodchip hoppers, but instead found a BLU crew gathering them up! BLU's track ownership does not extend to Saluda, stopping short about ten miles or so from the Grade. I'd not seen a train on this rarely-used line in nearly 20 years, so felt greatly blessed to have seen this, especially in daylight. I know the area pretty well, so was able to leap-frog ahead of the train to shoot these photos. Heavy highway traffic in Hendersonville put an end to my chase. Most of the automated grade crossings are out of service, rarely used and with rusty rails.
There're usually cows in this field, but they weren't there at train time. The farmer placed a sign nearby that read: Cow Pictures Are Free Bulls Charge
You guys made me spit my coffee... And nearly fell out of my chair laughing... So I won't have a cow...
This is getting udderly ridiculous. That same morning, I caught a stacker at Fairforest, SC on the former SOU main.
CP 475 had two more newly rebuilt AC44CWM leading. Also a 375 grain train with auto racks up front and led by a pair of KCS Belles coming in to Fruitland, IA. And a CP SD60 leading a second 475. March 31, 2021 Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
perhaps, though a LOT of the TBOX's rolling through the Pass these days have significant graffiti and they are the newer ones in the arsenal.
Ooooo !!! I like that one! Mostly don't much care for the vandalism, but that one is, well, shall we say a 'personality trait' in the family. Fire and things that go BOOM are fun!
