Excellent explanation! "Wave" Another from an epic cab ride on UP 3985. We're somewhere east of Rawlins, WY on the Overland Route as an eastbound freight behind SD70Ms barrels past. Photo with permission.
It's really impressive to look down that long, massive (and shiny!) boiler. It makes that oncoming SD look small in comparison.
C'Mon folks, this is weird. I'm a computer geek, OK, useta was,. I love math and solve equations in my head. Whoever dreamed this "stuff" up is a candidate for a psycho's couch (I'm being polite 'cause this is a Family channel). This guy needs help, or less access to his moonshine.
Hmm, looks like it was involved in a grade crossing incident. Parked in the Hearne yard back in March of 2015.
I think it came out in better shape than whatever it hit... It also shows that those safety cabs are built like tanks. The cab itself is intact, even if it needs a nose job. That ain't no recycled beer cans in there!
Accurate. CP train 199 hit a tractor mowing the ditches along US Highway 52 at a speed of 48 MPH. The engine was set out at the next available siding to the west, at Baden. The mangled handrails and busted lights were about the only physical damage the unit received, while the tractor was demolished and its driver sadly died. I captured it on 23 Sep 20 in twilight. "In Memoriam"
I think the GE's have less damage done to them from accidents than from setting themselves on fire. Doug
Winter of '88, and BN was in town to switch the small ex-MILW yard of the Weyerhaeuser plant at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington. (This was the former MILW "Everett Line".) Gray morning with light snow. BN was power short and had leased a batch of (ex-Conrail) EMDX GP38-2's:
What I liked about those EMDX Conrail leasers was every one of them was different in some way. They were all over the BN in the late 80s.
Thank you! Bridge FF836B (a 200 foot thru truss) is still there. Now known as Reinig Bridge (Reinig is correctly spelled) converted for hikers. It is the west end of the "Snoqualmie Valley Trail". That portion over the road was removed, due to decades of lumber and log trucks trucks hitting it.... This area in the heyday of that mill was it's own incorporated town, with all amenities, stores, USPS, church, school, etc, etc. Today, just a few (buried in natures re-growth) foundations, (if you know where to look. I do), and a few of the homes exist, a bit further up the road. Few residents today even know why those homes were built. Is was dis-incorporated when I was a boy, late 1950's, and later annexed into the City of Snoqualmie itself. Oh man has that City grown, it now sprawls clear over the hill to it's southwest, almost to the farm when I grew up- in the next (which was also a sawmill site in my youth) town! Today only an experienced eye can discern where the branch line main track on to Monroe and Everett passed through. Or the old four track yard leading down into the mill even existed. Almost nothing is even left from that HUGE complex. Yet another memory of my early life erased.
