Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. BNSF FAN

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    Been looking at Google maps street view today to get some ideas about the buildings along the tops of grain silos and came across this at Saginaw TX

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  2. r_i_straw

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    I saw a couple of those once.
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  3. logging loco

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    Are they being scrapped?
     
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  4. Kurt Moose

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    Looks like they were being dragged away for disposition after a derailment. If they're still usable, they'll repair them and put 'em back on the rails.
     
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  5. r_i_straw

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    I followed them all the way to Hearne where they went to the GATX shop. They probably rebuilt them there. Here is one parked on a siding across from the shop in Hearne waiting for a little touch up work.
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  6. HemiAdda2d

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    Rock and CNW markings, Nice catch!

    When I see clean/untagged cars, I shoot 'em. When I see classics, I shoot 'em.

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  7. Kurt Moose

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    Two "Fallen Flags" on one car, nice!(y)
     
  8. Doug Gosha

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    And, an ACI plate to boot!

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  9. Randy Stahl

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    Not even any holes in the boiler jacket, it's in really good shape.
     
  10. r_i_straw

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    Chicago & Northwestern round house in Chicago. December 1942. Jack Delano photo from Library of Congress collection.
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  11. Mike VE2TRV

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    Looks like 56 stalls, by counting the exhaust chimneys. About the same size as the former CN Turcot roundhouse in Montreal (it was demolished in 1962:cry: to make way for a poorly-designed and poorly-built highway interchange, which is now being demolished and rebuilt into another interchange...:confused:).
     
  12. Doug Gosha

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    It looks like the roof goes all the way 'round so there must have been at least one through stall, probably over by that yellowish building non the left.

    Doug
     
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  13. r_i_straw

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    Corporate graffiti?
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  14. HemiAdda2d

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    Who's hungry for guacamole all of the sudden? Just me?
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    Some chalk graffiti on a tank car in Minot:
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  15. Mike VE2TRV

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    Railien? Oooooohhh... CN is getting help from the UFOs!!! :eek:

    Call Mulder and Scully!:ROFLMAO:

    Mmmmmm... guacamole...
     
  16. BuddyBurton

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    CSXT 595 in YN3B scheme leads a unit ethanol train at Manchester, IA.

    March 10, 2021


    Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
     
  17. Doug Gosha

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    I like guac, too.

    Doug
     
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  18. Kurt Moose

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    I like aliens, too!
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  19. r_i_straw

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    Oh how the mighty have fallen. Now just a lowly yard engine shuffling cars around in the flat yard at Hearne. Does not look like the switchers of yesteryear.
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  20. Hardcoaler

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    Caught on the former SOU main at Fairforest, SC on 03/04/2021 was this light engine move with a pair of NS's GE AC44C6M DC-To-AC units. Trailing unit 4002 is one of several that received special paint.

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