Your Year 2009 Railfanning Highlights

My favorite 2009 train picture...

 

Where did you catch that at? That is a rare find, especially from the Rock Island.

 

Western Colorado

A lot of my railfanning last year was of local U.P. coal trains in western Colorado.

Unpatched SP in Glenwood Springs



Pulling into the coal loader at Somerset, CO.



Coal train in Palisade, CO.



Return of a Grande unit to Grand Junction, CO



Ben

 

National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI back in October. They moved it out of the shed for some reason. I think to sell off a piece of passenger equipment. You can see the spot it usually is in under its nose.

 

Eastern Colorado

As I headed over the contenintal divide I captured these.

Bond, CO



Dever, CO



Georgetown Loop



Denver, CO



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Utah

I headed to Ogden, UT to see U.P. 844 for the first time.



While in Ogden we checked out the museum's train displays.







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Nevada

Boulder City, NV RR Museum









Ben

 

Railfest - North Platte, NE









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Railfest - North Platte, NE Continued









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Misc.

Montana



Sheridan, WY



Black Hills Central



Thief River Falls, MN



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Misc. Continued

Warroad, MN



Council Bluffs, Iowa



Location: Kenefick Park - Omaha, NE

 

Misc. Continued

Lincoln, NE



Cody Park - North Platte, NE





Park - North Platte, NE



Ben

 

I didn't get a whole lot of railfanning in this year. But the time I did spend by the rails was good!

From a recent trip to Roanoke VA...

 

Some from my old hangout, Ashland VA.

 

My best trip of the year was to Harpers Ferry WV.

 

I am ashamed to say that I grew up in southeastern Ohio, and I had no clue something like this existed in West Virginia. This is an awesome scene...

 

ATSF 4-8-4 2913

I should've added this to my recent postings but I will consider this a BONUS --

 

Thanks Hemi!

Ben