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[NS9030]

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All of these are from Deshler.

[shicoe30]

Great shots everybody!

You ever have a day where everything just falls right into place perfectly without (much) effort on your part? Yeah, well I just had one of 'em. Wasn't even railfanning in the true sense of the word, just dickerin' around doing stuff I needed to do and trains just fell into my lap. Some awesome power, and definitely a few of my favorite shots I've ever taken.


CP 642 by Shicoe30, on Flickr


WSOR T004 by Shicoe30, on Flickr


CP 803 by Shicoe30, on Flickr

[Chessie8638]

Making me feel left out. And wanting to buy a DSLR sooner...


After NS fried CSX's signals in Berea. This intermodal stopped. While walking down to get this picture a manifest came by on the close track with a CEFX AC4400CW leading a CP AC4400CW... Some days you're lucky, other days you get skunked.

[simer4]

Great shots everyone! Keep em' coming. Yesterday, I saw something quite interesting; a 1950's bulkhead flat with Bettendorf trucks with the journals opened up and retrofitted with roller-bearings at the end of a CP manifest. Dang, that would of been a nice catch!

[shicoe30]

Great shots everyone! Keep em' coming. Yesterday, I saw something quite interesting; a 1950's bulkhead flat with Bettendorf trucks with the journals opened up and retrofitted with roller-bearings at the end of a CP manifest. Dang, that would of been a nice catch!

Cool! That's quite the thing to see! Anyways, in the spirit of "Keep em' coming", here's a shot of normal ol' GE's worth posting.


CP 694 by Shicoe30, on Flickr

And two from yesterday


UP MPRSS by Shicoe30, on Flickr

This shot ended up costing me $257. Apparently standing just off the road is trespassing. Really "Serving and Protecting" there Pewaukee PD.

CP 277 by Shicoe30, on Flickr

[shicoe30]

My best 3 from chasing Wisconsin & Southern's T004 (Horicon to Janesville) yesterday. My buddy (who was driving) took a wrong turn and we almost ended up in Illinois!


WSOR T004 by Shicoe30, on Flickr


WSOR T004 by Shicoe30, on Flickr


WSOR T004 by Shicoe30, on Flickr

[Chessie8638]

Hey Chessie, any chance we could get a look at that video? That's an insane lashup!

It's in the works. Have 5 days worth of video to sort through.

As promised: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XKufalJ9U&hd=1

[dejoh]

Very nice. Great quality. Thanks for sharing.

[Csxgp38-2]

Sucks you got busted for taking pics, here in Apex the cops before drove past me taking train pics, waved and smiled, then stopped several kids my age for hanging off standing railcars. Railfans are respected here in NC by police and railroad personel from what I've seen going across the state.

[NS9030]

Sucks you got busted for taking pics, here in Apex the cops before drove past me taking train pics, waved and smiled, then stopped several kids my age for hanging off standing railcars. Railfans are respected here in NC by police and railroad personel from what I've seen going across the state.

Yea, all thw major hotspots here in Ohio are like that, NS doesnt even care if youre on their property here. As long as you dont get hit or graffiti up a stopped train youre fine. And no Im not saying to take advantage of NS' rules, just dont go over the top...

[Csxgp38-2]

Same here dude, CSX lets me walk right through their material storage area/scrap storage, take pictures of the hirail trucks in their parking lot, I come to Apex so often that all the guys know me as the kid with the camera and a CSX hat.

[buzz456]

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Spaulding IL.

[buzz456]

SPAULDING. Located east of Elgin, Illinois, the junction is on Spaulding Road just west of Naperville Road and south of U.S. Rte. 20. Here, the J crosses Metra's Milwaukee West Line to Elgin. Beyond Elgin, the line is owned by Canadian Pacific, who reacquired it when they purchased the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern in 2008 (CP sold this line to I&M Rail Link in the early 1990's). Commuter trains dominate the traffic on Metra, but some local freights can also be seen, as well as a few CP road trains. There are connectors in the southwest and southeast quadrants, and local freights that serve an industrial area to the west sometimes use the former to access the CN/EJE. Traffic on the former J is now considerably greater than before the CN acquisition. Together with the Metra trains, Spaulding is now a fairly busy place.

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[NS9030]

CSX northbound at Leipsic

Another northbound...

[NS9030]

Same here dude, CSX lets me walk right through their material storage area/scrap storage, take pictures of the hirail trucks in their parking lot, I come to Apex so often that all the guys know me as the kid with the camera and a CSX hat.

Thats how it is with me and Leipsic, only with NS, CSX, and IORY lol and im pretty sure im the only kid around here that railfans...