Working rail roads and their tracks.

[gstrom99]

Slug in Lafayette, IN last Saturday. It works the yards in the area. This is near the Subaru plant.

View attachment 880200

Iowa Northern uses those often. I wonder if the CN takeover will change that...

 

[ArlyA]

I've never even seen a slug before.

 

[MossRoad]

I've never even seen a slug before.

There used to be quite a few of them in the Elkhart, IN yard. Now just a couple/few. Was surprised to see this one in Lafayette. Been going down there a lot recently. A kid and their spouse moved back from OK.

On that note, I'll take a 2 hour drive over a 12 hour drive any day!

 

[MossRoad]

Interesting reading...

Slug (railroad) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ArlyA]

No one here will see the 4014 on this tour? Do wish we could! In Elko NV #UP4014 enjoyed our rescheduled whistle-stop last night. Next on Friday is Montello, View the full schedule at UPsteam.com.

 

[ArlyA]

Union Pacific’s Steam team will be holding a Q&A session with visitors at the Big Boy #UP4014 display in Ogden, Utah tomorrow, Saturday, July 20th, starting at 1 p.m. MT.
Can’t join us in person? We’ll be sharing it live here on Facebook! You won’t want to miss it. #BigBoyHeadsWest
(Note: time is subject to change based on technology and locomotive needs)

Can anyone here join this live chat? We'll be on the road.

 

[ArlyA]

DuPont 16-wheel tank car DUPX 12401 was entering the CSX GENTILLY YARD on an SP-CSX run-through train in New Orleans, on its way from Texas to North Carolina. This was the first of five 38,300-gallon DUPX cars (12401-12405) built for DuPont by AMF in May and June 1970. These cars were initially heated and insulated; but by the time this image was taken, their insulation and outer jacket had been removed and they were in ethylene glycol service. They had an outside length of 92-07 with a LT WT of 144,000 LBS and a LD LMT of 382,000 LBS, for a gross rail load of 526,000 LBS. Car 12403 disappeared from the Equipment Register in 1991, but the other four remained in use until 2007 and were scrapped during January 2010.

 

[dodge man]

From my bicycle ride today, we had to stop and wait for this one.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a strange one for you guys. Seen in Lead South Dakota at one of the deepest gold mines in the world which stopped mining around 2001, a compressed air engine.

 

[MossRoad]

Here is a strange one for you guys. Seen in Lead South Dakota at one of the deepest gold mines in the world which stopped mining around 2001, a compressed air engine. View attachment 881500

Yep. I've seen a couple of those. First one was in the Children's Park in Rapid City, SD.

Here's a good read I've posted in the past....

Compressed-Air Locomotives

Douglas Self, Compressed-Air Motors,Mékarski,Bonnefond,Robert Hardie,Wantage Tramway

www.douglas-self.com

 

[gstrom99]

No one here will see the 4014 on this tour? Do wish we could! In Elko NV #UP4014 enjoyed our rescheduled whistle-stop last night. Next on Friday is Montello, View the full schedule at UPsteam.com.
View attachment 880831View attachment 880830

Great pics. I'm going to try and connect on it's eastern tour, when it comes through Iowa.

 

[ArlyA]

Nice photo taken in the Spring of 2019 at Echo Canyon, UT. For a short time I helped some older ranchers in SW S Dakota and he had worked on BN's main line there on steam engines.

 

[ArlyA]

Recent film of the B Boy in Wyoming.

 

[ChiefBodie]

Impressive!

 

[caver]

This YTer allegedly derailed the train and filmed it.

 

[Runner]

This vid came in on my feed the other day. Since I am a child of the diesel era, it was of interest to me. Pretty decent quality for the time, somewhere around 1975. Love seeing the old names that no longer exist. Anyone from KCMO would recognize the yards, West Bottoms, Union Station, North Kansas City.

Have not checked the engine numbers from the video, but there are some KC Terminal EMD SW 1200's like this one I photographed running in an alley in 1992.

 

[BravoXray]

Some of those old SWs are over 70 years old and still in use.

 

[ArlyA]

Love seeing the 4014 Big boy in sharp corners.

 

[Hay Dude]

Local track maintenance in my ‘hood.
We were using the crossing to carry fallen tree logs across the tracks when they showed up.

 

[bcp]

White Pass & Yukon #114 is on the way to the Cumbres & Toltec railroad.

WP&Y 114 in Bellingham

Bruce