BNSF773 leads an eastbound stack train into Joliet IL...... and heads for Chicago..... with a tagged set of wells (and a funky restencil) plus a rather nice "Sea Star" box on the back. Both pics, September 2000. Enjoy
btw Colonel, that's a really nice photo, obviously CSX have started cleaning loco's again since I was over last year OK that was slightly unfair.........but I didn't see many clean ones. And Alan, nice pic, there's something I really like about empty piggyback equipment, don't know why, it just looks interesting I guess.
Here's a UK intermodal pic, it dates from the early-mid 90's and probably within a year or two of the Channel Tunnel opening. The location is the UK tunnel freight yard where customs inspections are done. On track 6 are a pair of British class 92 electrics, then brand new, and on the adjacent track a pair of French electrics which were running freights through the tunnel at the time as the 92's were not cleared for that duty yet. The 92's are now the only tunnel cleared freigth loco (ignoring the vehicle shuttle loco's owned by eurotunnel) The first wagon in the (probably) Italy bound train is a "euro-twin" container flat, basically a pair of flats semi-permanently coupled. Behind this is the end of a five unit articulated car carrying set.
<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Martyn Read: there's something I really like about empty piggyback equipment, don't know why, it just looks interesting I guess.<hr></blockquote> Very handy for me as I am about to weather some spine cars. Well timed pick Alan - thanks.
Here is a Belgian class 27 electric heading a container train through Brugge, on the way to Zeebrugge, I think.
Interesting isn't it. I mean Alan's first picture just happens to have a long string of spinecars in it.
All I have scanned at the moment: CSX 682 leads a pig train EB at Lock 10, Cranesville, NY - 9/8/01 8:15am CSX 5012 headed west, moments later with stacks. CSX 645 leads the last train of the day (for me) east at 9:30 with lots of doubles.
That first shot is amazing, Paul. That photographer is one of the best around, do you know him personally?
A scruffy-looking BNSF #554 leads an SD40-2 and a eastbound hotshot headed for BNSF's Alliance ramp near Fort Worth, TX. Photo taken near Alvord, TX on February 26, 2001.
Yes, but the REAL beauty (besides the fading paint on the front and on the side above the fuel tank) is, if you look closely behind the yellow 554 on the cab side, you will see 554's true colors shining through.....good ole' BNSF Heritage Orange!!! Hmmm, high horsepower, mismatched body panels, fading paint....if this thing has a gun rack it's the perfect Texas pickup truck!!!! (Shoot, I bet there's even some Bondo on her somewhere!) Incidentally, I did some snoopin' and found a pic on Charles Biel's TrainPix.com site of #554 when she roled off the showroom floor back in 1991. http://archive.trainpix.com/ATSF/GE/B40-8W/554.HTM I bet this guy has a new (green, yellow, and orange) paint job soon if not already.
Just checked on Q-Station, still in ATSF as of 7th September, most of the ones I saw last year had orange a/c boxes as well, though my fave was a UP dash 9 with a CNW a/c box on it....cool Anyhow, back to the topic, here's something I thought was a bit unusual, CSXT8749 rolls some single stacked wells westbound through Point of Rocks MD, Sep 2000. This was the only intermodal I saw with only one loco, and the only one that consisted of entirely single stacked well cars, It wasn't a short train either...... All the best [ 29 November 2001: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]</p>
A pair of SP SD70M's slow for the horseshoe curve at Caliente, and the climb into the mountains, on a dull day in February 1999, with a piggyback train.
A downgrade double stack winds around the curves above Caliente. [ 08 December 2001: Message edited by: Alan ]</p>
