The Portola Railroad Museum Special led by UP DDA40X, Western Pacific GP20, and F7 B&A units is greeted by an ACF Centerflow train led by BNSF ES44DC, GP60M, and C44-9W. This is at Virgilia in the beautiful Feather River Canyon.
The bells audible in the background are from 2 nearby GP units switching, not from the stack train. The Geeps will show up at the end of this very long video which shows the entire double stack train from the 3 Dash 9's at the front to the 2 DPU's (Distributed Power Units) at the end. You're welcome to count the total number of containers. ;)
There are working wigwags along Niles Canyon Railway, two of them at a crossing just west of Brightside Yard. Excursion train pulled by Western Pacific F7 #918-D with a GP7 #713 on the end cruises on by with this scene reminiscent of railroading decades ago.
The big rig truck-like horn sounds are coming from the F7, and I'm not sure F units are supposed to sound like that!
After taking a video of two coal trains meeting at Hershey, Nebraska just west of UP's Bailey Yard, I decided to stick around to see how many more trains would show up.
I was out of town during Saturday's run, but wasn't going to miss the Memorial Day's run today!
2472 is one of three surviving Southern Pacific 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotives. Enjoy.
The new tracks adjacent to BNSF Track 1 at Cajon Pass reflect the lights off the afternoon sun as trains pass by Hill 582 on a chilly and windy Sunday.
The BNSF doublestack is descending Track 1 minutes after 5 trains climbed up the same tracks in rapid succession.
This is a very long video, because it shows two long coal trains in their entirety.
I went to Moffat Tunnel East Portal in Colorado to see what was going on, and met two westbound empty coal trains charging into the 6.2 mile long tunnel.
I saw a westbound Trailer On Flat Car (TOFC) train in Hesperia, followed by yet another one, so I chased both of them. I took this video somewhere between Lugo and Summit.
The first TOFC has an interesting consist with a GP60B. It passed the second one (with two Dash 9's, one a Warbonnet) near Lugo, so it must have been the hotter train.
I'm standing behind the recently installed video event recorder in the cab of the 6936. The turntable is turning, so you'll get to see the WP #2001 (first EMD GP20 ever built), 2 UP cupola cabooses, a passing train, and part of the Dunsmuir Railroad Days exhibits. You'll also get to see (and hear) Portola Railroad Museum volunteer Seth blow the horn of the Centennial.
Due to bridge repair near Santa Barbara on Union Pacific's Coast Subdivision, Amtrak had to detour the Coast Starlight through Tehachapi on June 22, 2008.
I chased the southbound #11 from Bakersfield to the Tehachapi Loop.
A freight train pulled by Yellowbonnet Santa Fe GP30 #2442 and Burlington Northern green SD40-2 #8003 heads northbound through the street running section in Oakland's Jack London Square.
Note the pedestrian and vehicle traffic appearing right as the train leaves the scene.
