Track Warrants
"The Electronic Internet Newsletter of Western Railroading"
P.O. Box 720301
San Jose, CA 95172
USA
Issue No. 22
May 30, 1996
Steve Sloan
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SP 9763, Built 1991, a GP60 switching atWarm Springs on 2/16/96. Photo by
Ken Rattenne©
EDITORIAL
- Well, I did it!
- On Saturday, May25, I oficially graduated with my Master's in Instructional
Technology. It is amazing to think that it is over. What a relief!
Steve
BNSF
- New BNSF scheme unvieled
- May25---BN SD60M left VMV on 5/24/96 wearing Omaha Green and Orange
but with an interesting twist. The scheme is very similar to the SD70MAC
scheme with only the colors being different. Lettering on the long hood
is still BNSF but a new nose herald was applied. A vague description would
be that its similar to the Santa Fe cross-in-a-circle herald.
One side of the unit had scotchlite red striping separating the green and
orange colors...the other had a more complicated pinstriping design somewhat
similar to the SD70MAC's but also included a blue accent stripe (very odd).
railfncc
- BNSF 9297 released from VMV
- May25---BNSF 9297 was released from VMV at 7:00 AM on friday 5/24/96
it departed Paducah at 8:40 AM on BNSF train 448 headed for Galesburg then
to Chicago for transfer to a hotshot headed for seattle.
The 9297 SD60M is painted in a variation of the SD70MAC scheme with orange
replacing the cream the engine has silver trucks and fuel tank. The nose
logo is a round circle with the words Burlington Northern at the top of
the circle, Santa Fe going straight across the middle, and railway going
across the bottom. All of the nose logo lettering is red with the dark green
circle on an orange background. The BNSF lettering on the side of the engine
is in the orange stripe like the SD70MAC and all lettering on the side is
green. The 9297 is painted slightly different on both sides with the pinstriping
being the only difference, the engineers side has a solid 2" red stripe
seperating the orange and green while the conductors side has a blue stripe
with the two red stripes like the SD70MAC's.
The BNSF employees are to vote which side they like best before any others
will be done. My vote does not count but I like the side with the blue stripe
as it looks classier than the other. This engine sounds very ugly but you
have to see it in person and it grows on you real fast my impression is
that its a very pretty paint scheme.
Good Luck chasing!!!!!!
Steve Wilhelm, Almo, KY, via L.
G. Ruback [ On Track Ltd ]
- BNSF 9297 Travels
- May25---Rail fans lock and load, BNSF 9297 has left VMV and arrived
in Galesburg Illinois early on Saturday morning, 5-25-96. It is scheduled
to run to Chicago on train #164 leaving Galesburg around 3:00 pm on Saturday.
In Chicago, the engine will have publicity pictures taken. BNSF 9297 is
then scheduled to run to the Twin Cities on train #3 Sunday afternoon. If
the photo shoot runs long 9297 will run to the Twin Cities on train #1 leaving
late Sunday night and arriving some time Monday. The engine has silver trucks
and fuel tank and a red frame strip. The rest in orange and green. It has
a new BNSF logo on the nose. Twin Cities and Chicago rail fans happy hunting.
Philip Elizondo, via L. G.
Ruback [ On Track Ltd ]
- More paint descriptions
- May25---As I said, the unit has silver trucks and fuel tank and it
has a red frame stripe. The rest of the paint job looks something like a
SD70MAC. Replace the green with green (you know what I mean) and the cream
with orange. The lower green section on the sides seems lower then the SD70MAC
green. The cab is mostly orange with the paint lowering to a point on the
nose like the SD70MACS. The unit number is on the cab and BNSF is on the
sides of the long hood. One side seamed to have a seperation stripes between
the colors and the other side did not. There was a note on the net that
the two sides would be different because BNSF was not happy wiht the paint.
On the nose was the new BNSF circle and cross logo. I hope that helps. I
could tell the unit was NOT cascade green and white.
I heard a RUMOR stating Tuesday 5-27-96 the super fleet units when they
are in the shop will have the SANTA FE on the long hood sides of the unit
painted out and BNSF painted in. The units will also have 8000 added to
their unit number (ie 101 to 8101, 250 to 8250, 333 to 8333, ... ) The new
unit numbers will be painted on the cab also. This makes sence with the
BNSF SD75's. This will create a conflict with BN 8100's and BNSF 8100's.
Has anybody heard this rumor and is it true? Does any body have a renumbering
plan? And what are the numbers for the dash 9's?
Kevin Angel, Cedar Rapids Iowa, via L.
G. Ruback [ On Track Ltd ]
- Where did the Fullerton hack go?
- May22---Some time during the first two weeks of May, the caboose that
had become an also permanent fixture at Fullerton (999631) disappeared from
the tool car spur west of the depot. Anyone know where it ended up?
Also, if anyone is interested, a property management company wants to lease
out the old Santa Fe clerk's office at Fullerton, now that the Santa Fe
has moved the switchers to La Mirada. If you're interested in leasing from
900 to 2800 square feet of trackside office space, check out the Fullerton
depot.
Ron Lehmer
- Stampede Pass construction begins
- May20---Seattle, Washington May 18, 1996--- After months of rumor-mongering,
gossip-spreading, press-releasing mumbo-jumbo which reported everything
from phantom steel gangs at Cle Elum and Easton to the complete rebuilding
of the Milwaukee Road right-of-way across the great state of Washington
and ended with the BNSF spending $40 million on the WRCR, (a route BN itself
appraised at a sale price of $8 million in the late-1980s) BNSF has finally
gone to work on its "new" route across Stampede Pass. As of 5
p.m. PST on May 18, 1996, the following activities have occurred or are
under way: On May 16 BNSF dozed three feet of snow off FR 54, the US Forest
Service access road from Interstate 90 across Stampede Pass to Lester, Washington.
Anyone who has traveled over this hair-pin cliff-hanging snow covered monster
of a dirt road will appreciate this effort.
At tunnel 4, a 600+ foot bore approximately one mile west of Stampede Tunnel,
BNSF subcontractors are continuing engineering studies (a three man crew
was on-site Saturday, May 18).
At Old Stampede, a former station site located between tunnel 4 and tunnel
3 (Stampede Tunnel, 1.8 miles in length) BN 975413 (Pile Driver) and BN
961434 (MW Flat) are chained to the rail and blue flagged (occupied equipment).
At this site crews have replaced an old timber grade crossing and lengthened
it to a double-wide version. Several chain-locked equipment boxes and a
small amount of heavy timber is being stored here. As well, the tunnel cart
(literally a story and a half scaffold on wheels) has been propped on its
side and it looks as though crews are trying to figure out how to replace
the cart's wheels, which were stolen some years ago.
At the west portal of Stampede Tunnel BNX 16022 (hi-rail crane) and seven
sections of panel track are on the ground. There has been a small mud slide/washout
about 75 yards west of the portal. The slide apparently buried the north
railhead and spread west in the drainage ditch along the tracks. A fairly
good-sized stream of water is still flowing down the north hillside, but
it has been diverted into an existing large diameter culvert, which empties
into a small creek on the south side of the right-of-way. Both portals of
tunnel three once had extensive snowsheds (tunnel 4 still does) but both
of Stampede's were burned by arsonists in the late-1980s. Following the
fires the damaged rail was removed from both ends at least 100 yards inside
the tunnel itself. At the west portal, these segments have been re-laid
with panels and covered with fresh ballast.
If anyone is interested, this is the first time Auburn and Yakima have been
linked by rail (directly) in 8 years.
---JAPhillipsIII
For further info on Stampede Pass line reopening/WCRC merger, check out
BNSF's press releases at http://www.bnr.com
- Auburn yard news
- May17---According to news sources a state appeals board has ruled
Auburn, Washington can't prevent BNSF from putting a major rail yard on
the edge of the city's downtown. Reportedly the city can insist on some
measures to alleviate traffic congestion or noise, for instance, but it
can't say no, the three-member Central Puget Sound Growth Management Board
said in a recent ruling.
via Warren Y. Yee, via The Railroad List, via John Kinzel
CENTRAL OREGON & PACIFIC
- Siskiyou Travels
- May20---I spent all of Saturday (5/18) following a little red caboose
on the Siskiyou Line. One of my friends up here is Dan Wilkinson and he
owns three ATSF cabeese, two of them are kept in Yreka on the YWRR. This
next weekend he is going to participate in some event in Grants Pass (where
he lives) and he thought a caboose would be a nice touch for our little
railroad section on the town's celebration. On Friday the Yreka Western
moved his caboose to Montague and he and Ed Gill spent the night in it.
Dan asked if I would videotape the train as I drove his car back to Medford.
Why not? I'm retired and don't have a life.
Dan's ATSF caboose still is painted like an authentic ATSF caboose. It is
number ATSF999071, was built in 1928, and rebuilt in 1973. Everything is
original, nothing taken out, and only minor improvements made in things
like radios, brakes, etc. He did take out two seats and converted the area
for two beds for this trip.
I rode with Laurinda Gill (and her older brother and his daughter) to Montague
to meet Dan and Ed (Laurinda's husband). Laurinda's brother, Greg, is also
a railfan so we followed a southbound CORP "Montague Hauler" from
Siskiyou Summit to Montague. It had 37 cars, 6 GP38/GP40s on the headend,
and two GP38s pushing on the rear. The weather was cloudy with some rain
but it didn't affect us too much. With all the recent rains in Southern
Oregon and Northern California, CORP has put what I would guess is 10 miles
of 10mph slow orders between Hornbrook and Snowdon. Real soggy ground along
the Klamath River.
We arrived at Montague about 1:00pm and watched the rear helpers cut off
and hook up to Dan's caboose. After switching by the Montague Hauler, the
two-engine caboose hop headed back to Oregon. We filmed the train all along
the line and that bright red caboose with red locomotives sure stood out
amongst the green landscape.
Also part of the planned trip was CORP's experiment to see if a full-size,
smooth sided woodchip car could negotiate the tunnels on Siskiyou Summit.
These three tunnels have always been the cause for not allowing the larger
cars to go between California and Oregon on the Siskiyou Line. They picked
up an empty car at Hornbrook and from there the 2 engine, 1 car and 1 caboose
train made its journey. I told Dan to radio us so we'd know if they made
it through the tunnels or not. He broadcasted on one of ATSF's channels
so it wouldn't interfere with anyone else.
At tunnel 13 (Summit tunnel) the clearances were good and we beat the train
to the East portal of the tunnel. The big question was tunnel 14 as it has
3 or 4 types of construction, and has a sharp curve. This was always the
restricting tunnel when SP operated the line. The car made it through...barely!
I expected to hear on my scanner as Dan leaned out the cupola window, "Tony,
we are now inside Tunnel #14 and as I stick my head out the window I see...
OUCH! Banged my head on the tunnel wall." The last tunnel (#15) had
the best clearance. Now CORP will decide if they want to purchase those
big woodchip cars. They think they will get a good price, and besides they
are tired of re-railing those "rent-a-wreck" Eastern woodchip
cars. They've been nothing but a disaster and they only hold about 60% of
what the old SP woodchips cars can hold.
Yes! Dan's caboose was the first ATSF hack to go over the Siskiyous and
the large woodchip car going over the summit was also a first. Those big
cars were regulars in Medford and Ashland but they always had to go north
via Roseburg and Eugene.
Tomorrow morning Dan and Ed will ride the caboose to Grants Pass and I'll
drive Dan's car again. As usual I'll be taking more videos.
That's all from up here in the rain forest of Oregon.
Tony
NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC
- Shoot the Cal Northern now!
- California Northern has been granted a daylight reprieve thru the
month of June. So we will be abale to shoot them again in the daytime until
the NWP takes over. The first chopnose blackwidow should be at the CFNR
interchange at Suisun the first week of June. Get the alert out.
Vic The Neves, via Matt Vurek
OPERATION LIFESAVER
- Colorado training report
- Colorado Operation Lifesaver is targeting police, fire, and EMS for
new two hour classroom and two hour practical training classes. Rail communications,
railroad operations, milepost identification, retrieving train list or consist
reports by FAX, locomotive hazards including new AC link voltage capacitance,
generators, electrical cabinet, batteries, turbo/fuel/coolant issues, connections
air/electrical, flagging, crossing hazards, and the like are covered during
the classes. NTSB review of Catlin, VA Fire Department derailment of AMTRAK,
and a couple other police/fire caused problems are also covered. Of most
recent interest, AMTRAK came in from Washington DC and presented a full
day class on Emergency Response to Passenger Rail Incidents.
We've found nationally that: most jurisdictions do not have CURRENT post
merger 1-800 numbers for their railroads; multi-state rail dispatch centers
do not have accurate 10 digit phone numbers for local emergency responders
listed by rail milepost; few civilian over/underpasses are signed for rail
crews with cell phones that may wish to report local problems directly;
and the majority of emergency responders have virtually no exposure to rail
equipment safety features, brake system overviews, or locomotive (especially
AC) issues.
If you have other contacts in the industry or public safety venue doing
the same or interested in collaboration, we'd love to hook up with them.
Eric Sondeen, Lt., Littleton Fire Department, 2255 W. Berry Ave.,
Littleton CO 80165
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
- Steam excursion on Peninsula
- May25---SP 2472 hauled CalTrain F40 916 and 6 CalTrain bilevel coaches
from San Francisco to Morgan Hill for the "Mushroom Festival"
held there. The train ran pretty much on time.
SP 2472 was then cut off and backed to San Jose for wyeing. It stayed there
until 916 shoved the loaded consist back westbound from Morgan Hill, arriving
on depot track 5 at about 17:45 or so. 2472 then backed from C.P. Julian
and coupled ahead of the cab car. Departure westbound on the peninsula was
at 17:58, ahead of the 18:00 commute. 916 played caboose. This was an obvious
move to save wear and tear on the beloved Baldwin Pacific, as it did not
like its back up moves during last year's Garlic Express trips. Yesterday,
it was seen running light to Redwood Junction to turn for today's trip.
Matt Vurek
- Reno may have to pay to relocate tracks
- According to an Associated Press story the city of Reno and the casinos
may have to help pay the estimated $600 million cost of moving the SP tracks
away from the downtown area and the casinos. The city is concerned that
a merger may double or triple the number of trains using the track. The
railroad has proposed installing bridges to get the tracks away from the
streets. The city wants the tracks moved to the I-80 corridor. The Surface
Transportation Board appears to be saying, the city will have to pay the
difference if it wants the trains moved.
via Dave Bono
- SP derails in Modesto
- May20---SP 9810 and 9800 West (WCEUQ) made an emergency application
of air just short of G Street in Modesto (5/20) to avoid hitting a truck
at the street crossing. The engineer succeeding in bringing the train to
a stop short of G Street, derailing a three cars behind the engine, and
six cars near the rear of the train. The latter cars piled up and at least
one boxcar rolled down the embankment near the TS Railway Crossing. The
line is expected to reopen at 06:00 (5/21)
Traffic from both ends of the railroad began to quickly stack up, with the
LABRF parked right behind at Ceres siding. Another train was parked behind
the Turlock Local at Covell, and others at Lingard and Calla. Several carryalls
were kept busy picking up crews.
SP extra work train 4803 with two GP38-2s that was waiting for this train
at West Modesto with a load of ballast for work in Merced, now stranded,
was called to assist with the derailment. Ten of the ballast cars were commandeered
for reballasting track damaged in the derailment.
-Rob Carlson, John Orr
May21---Though yesterday's derailment (in Modesto, CA) was serious, I think
the Modesto Bee provided the best laugh out of the day. Though the story
rated a veteran journalist and actually essentially got the story right,
(isn't that a switch!) I think it did get sensationalized a bit. In the
lead sentence it reads, "...blocked intersections, spilled cargo, evacuations..."
Intersection should be singular uless you take into account closing much
of seventh street to allow SP crews to clean up the derailment. Spilled
cargo? Except for the steel loads on the rear, this was an empty train,
spilled frieght cars yes. Evacuations? Does empty high cube box cars put
out toxic fumes????
Maybe railfanning isn't safe if we have toxic empty cars!
Rob Carlson Altamont
Press News Line, via Web
- SP retirements
- May20---Here are some recent Southern Pacific locomotive retirements
since the last issue of SP Review magazine.
DRGW locomotives:
GP30: 3017 3018, GP35: 3045, GP40: 3051 3052 3059 3062 3090 3143, SD45:
5331
SP locomotives:
SW1200: 2282, GP9E: 3755, SD9E: 4379 4428 4438, GP35E: 6324 6326, GP40X:
7200, SD45T-2: 9257 9323
--Tony
UNION PACIFIC
- Nine farm organizations to oppose merger
- May28---The National Corn Growers Association, the American Farm Bureau
Federation, American Soybean Association, National Grange, National Association
of Wheat Growers, National Farmers Union, Agricultural Retailers Association,
National Cotton Council, Interstate Agricultural Grain Marketing Commission
and the USA Rice Federation wrote a letter dated May 16th to the full House
of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, expressing their concerns about
the UP-SP merger and how it would cause the loss of competition in the railroad
sector.
The letter states that "the impact of this merger will be felt across
the nation. Agriculture and food distribution industries that support agriculture
will be impacted in a very negative manner if this merger is completed.
Not only does this cause concern for the loss of competitive transportation
for goods within the United States but it causes concern over diminished
competition for transportation for import and export routes with our North
American Free Trade Agreement partners."
via Tim O'Connor, reference http://www.idrcorp.com/news/rail/
- UP has Texas collision
- May 25---On Friday, May 24 two Union Pacific freight trains collided
head on in Denton, Texas. Five crew members on the two trains jumped to
safety just before the collision. No deaths occurred and only one crewman
sustained minor injuries.
According to televised reports from Dallas, Texas area television stations,
a southbound train was stopped on the main track when an northbound collided
head on at about 20 mph. Three boxcars of auto parts derailed and split
open. The south bound train was lead by UP 1816, a GP38-2 with a second
GP38-2 trailing. The northbound train was lead by Conrail 5518, trailed
by Conrail 6427 followed by a UP GP40-2. UP 1816, CR 5518 and the UP GP40-2
appeared from the video footage to sustain the worst damage. No cause of
the accident has yet been determined. This accident occurred at the grade
crossing just north of the former Missouri Pacific station in downtown Denton.
No toxic materials other than spilled diesel fuel were involved in the derailment
and no evacuation of the area was called for. No fire was evident in the
video footage.
According to the Dallas Morning News on Saturday, May 25:
"Four freight cars derailed Friday morning in Denton, TX and more than
900 gallons of diesel fuel spilled when a 122 car train bound for Kansas
City, Kan. from Fort Worth crashed into a stopped train. Crew members from
both train, which are owned buy Union Pacific Railroad, leaped off before
the collision and sustained minor injuries, said Ed Trandahl, a Union Pacific
spokesman. Investigators were trying to determine the accident's cause Friday
while a hazardous materials team cleaned up the spilled fuel. The collision
occurred about 10:40 a.m. at Hickory Street in Denton and blocked traffic
for several hours. Damage to UP is estimated to be at least $67,000."
Information gathered from video reports on Channel 8 (WFAA), Channel 5 (KXAS)
Channel 11 (KTVT) and Channel 4 (KDFW). I live in Greenville, TX about 60
miles from the accident site and have railfaned Denton, TX.
Myron Malone
- UP derailment
- May25---According to a UP spokesman, 21 cars of an 89 car Union Pacific
Railroad freight train jumped the tracks on May 24 after a railroad crew
man accidently threw a switch. The accident injured an engineer and tied
up rail traffic on one of the nation's busiest freight lines. Damage was
estimated at $930,000.
Trains were detoured south through Kansas in the eastbound and westbound
directions for at least nine hours. The train was carrying dry milk, scrap
paper and soda ash from North Platte to Texas, rail officials said.
via Dave Bono
- A field report
- May25---Since we hear little out of this (Illinois?) area on the OS
list, I thought I would post a little of two days worth of activity... Intense
heat had switches and tracks messed up, causing trains to get backed up
and crews to go dead, even on transfers. BN was detouring over UP/SP line,
which had more than its share of traffic already. Saw several new AC4400CW's,
5 of which were making their "maiden voyage" (6765/6768, 6767/6766,
and 6771 on three different trains).
UP 5991 was a Dupo in unphotographable position, but had fresh paint and
was unique in having "We Will Deliver" in black under "Union
Pacific" lettering in red on side of carbody. This is the first unit
I'm aware of that has this. Of course, living in Louisville, I'm oblivious
to anything on the UP that I don't read about here!
Good consists at Dupo around 4 p.m. (8 trains in one hour here!):
- UP 6765/6768
- UP 6870/6884
- CNW 5075/LLPX
- 6001/CNW 5065
- BN 6701/HATX 201/BN 4045/BN 7000
At the interchange yard in the Brooklyn, IL area being shuffled by NS 7068
were ex-CSX GP30M's 4201, 4217, and 4239 all lettered for OHCR.
At the MFRY yard, the dealer had ex-CR 9022,8632, SP 3821, DRGW 148, CUVA
1209, and a few other units that I couldn't see well enough to get info
on.
At Metro-East industries were ex-CSX 2116, 2004, CN 1282, 7934, SP 7201,
and DRGW 3077,3083,3065, and 3069. All units were being cannibalized, scrapped,
etc.
SP coal train at Valley (N. End of AS Gateway Yard) with 306/129/WC 6551/WC
6583 for power.
As a final note, still at Mt. Vernon, IL at PNC are the hulks of the UP
Sulzer SD45's, 4 WP GP20's, MKT 24, ex-AS 1501 (ALCO RS), SR 3079 (SD35),
hulks of the Tamper SD45's, and many other "relics" from the past.
It's a little like looking back in time...
Joe, via L. G. Ruback [ On
Track Ltd ]
- From the land of the MoPac
- May19---For about the last month, Chicago Central GP38's (2000, 2002
and 2006) have been operating between Little Rock, AR and Coffeeville, KS
on the Union Pacific. I have seen them on several occasions at Van Buren,
AR. Also seen on the UP at Van Buren, are NS, Conrail and CNW units on a
regular basis. EMD and Morrison Knudsen lease units are also seen fairly
often.
Van Buren also sees Arkansas and Missouri Alco's. Regularly seen are T-6's,
C-420's and RS-1's.
The RS-1's are used in regular service on their 3-day a week tourist excursion
train. The most often seen power is RS-1 #22. This loco was built in April
1943. Hope this information is helpful. If so, I will be happy to provide
any other information I can.
Richard D. Sprouse
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE
- UPS to build LA facility
- United Parcel Service will be constructing a new sorting facility
in Los Angeles, replacing their current facility at Soto St. and Washington
Blvd.. The new facility, to be ready in 1998, will be on property UPS already
owns at Main and Lamar (next to the San Antonio Winery and across the tracks
from the SP's Shops Yard). The old facility will be sold and torn down to
build a new industrial park.
It will be interesting to see how this will affect UPS contract with BNSF,
as they will be very close to the SP's Shops Yard.
Information from the LA Times Business section, May 22, 1996, via Ron
Lehmer
TRIP REPORT
- BAK/TF Roundup
- Was up at Tehachapi last Saturday. A couple of interesting things
happened. At 12:42 at Bealville a westbound TOFC train went by. The power
was 7423, 7517, 8553 and 7533. The really interesting thing was that as
7423 came around the corner into Bealville and the lead unit had two headlights,
one on the cab front and the other on the nose and the one on the nose was
an operating gyralight. The shops must have stolen one off of a Rio Grande
unit.
The beets were running and we saw an empty headed into Mojave at about 9:30,
the power was 240, 163 and 293. Later, about 5:15, we also saw the loaded
beets between Ilmon and Bena headed west with 324, 272 and 299.
The beet cars are steel hoppers with builtup sides. Looked like four bay
hoppers with steel mesh extensions of the sides, went up about two feet
above the car top. Some we saw were marked Colorado and Wyoming. As I recall
the cars were marked HOLX or something like that.
The direction would indicate the trains are running from the Imperial Valley
to the Holly Sugar plant near Chico or Sacramento as I recall.
We followed a train from Palmdale to Woodford on our way up to the loop.
The power was 8695, 8563, 9226 and Rio Grande 5372. The power looked really
nice all in Speed Lettering of one form or another (I refer to the Rio Grande
unit of course). Interestingly the train made a crew change near the water
tank foundations at Woodford.
In addition they have installed car IC readers just east of the east end
signal at Bealville. (they're Hirschman Model E-5900's)
At Ansel, just south of Mojave, was an empty stack train stopped in the
siding, no crew. It is empties that move down to West Colton and then to
Delores. Had UP 6060 and CNW 8037 as power.
We stopped and waited at Ansel as 8695 went by. After 8695 had passed the
signals stayed on so we waited a few minutes and saw a headlight headed
towards us. It was a light engine move with SSW 9712, 9717 and 9738. We
followed these units into Mojave and that was the last we saw of these units.
Later, at Bealville a general freight went by with 9800 and 9810 on the
point and RG5502 and 5515 as midtrain helpers.
Later, an eastbound coal train stopped at Bealville, probably headed to
Mojave and then Searles. Had 140, 8638 and 264 on the point, all speed lettered,
and 5517, 5506, 5503 and 5510 as midtrain helpers.
At Bealville saw, SF 4012, UP 6219, UP 6181 and UP 6275, and 6275 had the
commemorative plates to Cheyenne on the nose.
Also, an eastbound mixed freight with SF 5815, 5372, LMX 8517, LMX 8548
and SF 154 went by.
We also saw a light engine move back to Bakersfield near Ilmon with SF 8162,
SF 5853, RG 5515 and 5502. I can't recall having seen SP and SF moving helpers
together before. Very interesting.
Not a bad day.
Tim Harrias
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