Rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

Powerful vs impressive

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Bruce

Maintenance on steam engines is horrid.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nearly everything that breaks must be custom built.

 

[ArlyA]

Nice shot of the Copper Country Limited charging up Hancock Hill which is a 3.9% grade! This was abut 1965.

 

[BravoXray]

Nice shot of the Copper Country Limited charging up Hancock Hill which is a 3.9% grade! This was abut 1965. View attachment 791334

I haven't seen an E series (E7 maybe?) and an F series (F7 maybe?) together on a train before.

 

[topgun05]

I saw "Big Boy" 4014 and "Living Legend" 844 double heading to Ogden when they passed through Laramie, Wy in May. It was quite a sight! Unfortunately, since UPRR only wants two active steam locomotives, Challenger 3985 is retired. It would require a ground up and very expensive rebuild.

Meanwhile in IL...

See Union Pacific railroad history in Silvis

Three famous locomotives are making their way to Silvis, and the public will have a rare chance to see them this weekend, for a price. The Railroading Heritage of Midwestern America (RRHMA) has ann…

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[ArlyA]

Here is a 4 track main line near Bill Wyoming moving power basin coal. I've been looking at these hoping to see the Uni-body cars we commonly worked on but haven't spied any. I'd guess the design was a failure and they are gone.

 

[MossRoad]

I saw another long coal train heading east-to-west here in our town again yesterday.

 

[turbo36]

This is a BNSF main line and they paid for the tracks and there upkeep. If traffic goes down it will still be there. This is how privet industry works. If they have a customers, they add tracks but customers and mines do not last fowvever so things will change whenever that happens.. Whats new?

I couldn’t think of a more fitting example of what you have said here than the UP! Calumet especially.

 

[California]

UP ore train on the mainline between Las Vegas - Los Angeles got off in the bushes yesterday ...

No injuries. I can't find any intelligent details but in summary the crew jumped without injury. Roadside sensor reported the maximum it can measure, 118 mph, speculation is 150 mph.

Unattributed comments on Reddit and Trains .com say the lead few cars detached from a 180 car train on a miles-long -2.2% grade and the crew jumped an hour before this derailment.

TV news reports - all I could find - are pretty useless. The comments - credibility unknown - after these articles add some missing details.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1245erz

Runaway UP ore train derails in California desert (updated) - Trains

KELSO, Calif. — Two locomotives and 55 cars of a runaway Union Pacific train carrying iron ore derailed near the Mojave Desert community of Kelso today (Monday, March 27), officials from the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District reported. Union Pacific spokesman Mike Jaixen has...

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Aerial photos show massive train derailment scene near Baker

Officials from the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District released information on a train derailment near Kelbaker and Kelso Cima roads southeast of Baker Monday.

www.ktla.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1640464916699308032

 

[5030]

Meanwhile in IL...

See Union Pacific railroad history in Silvis

Three famous locomotives are making their way to Silvis, and the public will have a rare chance to see them this weekend, for a price. The Railroading Heritage of Midwestern America (RRHMA) has ann…

www.ourquadcities.com

Latest News | Railroading Heritage of Midwest America

rrhma.com

If they aren't under steam and being pulled by a diesel electric locomotive, they hold little interest for me and looks as though the UP executive rolling stock is a bit ratty too. What is with the EM B unit with no A unit?