Western Railroad Discussion > Wild Goose Chase for a Talgo

As some of you probably know, BNSF is moving a new ODOT Talgo trainset from Wisconsin to the AAR/FRA Test Center in Colorado for certification testing. In what had been a well planned out day by yours truly ended up becoming a wild goose chase courtesy of Team BNSF (I should know better by now). The weatherman also said there wouldn't be a cloud in the sky too today...boy was he wrong!

1. Q SAGKCK1 01A with a standard cab NS GE leading three others at Plymouth, KS.
2. My favorite barn just east of Plymouth as westbound S KCKSCO1 01A rolls west.
3. Jumping east to Lebo, KS, westbound Z WSPSTO9 02A rolls by at Emmer Rd.

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4. Meeting up with TO'ers "santafe199" and "bnsfsd70", the wild goose chase pays off as the westbound Talgo special, J CRALAJ1 01A eases under the Eisenhower Terrance bridge just west of Ottawa, KS. Wonderful high clouds making their presence known...
5. One last shot as the ETD on the M EMPKCK1 02A meets a westbound H KCKBAR3 02A stopped at the same spot.

I'm sure the rest of the gang will have more pics to come soon...

Thanks for looking!

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NIIIICE pics!!!!!

Some very well done stuff that's pretty Cool on the Amtrak train.

It's a good thing I didn't wait around at Topeka for it based off of SOMEONEs heads up. :-P Joking aside great shots and glad ya caught it.

mg8711 Wrote:
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> It's a good thing I didn't wait around at Topeka
> for it based off of SOMEONEs heads up. :-P Joking
> aside great shots and glad ya caught it.


ALL of us were expecting it to go via Topeka according to a heads up from a certain Amtrak ticket agent (name withheld to protect the guilty) :-p

Not once but twice someone on here reported it was going via Topeka.

Oh dear another late night special train through western Kansas.

The BNSF put out the word that it was going via Topeka.
I guess they changed their minds.

The_Chief_Way Wrote:
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> The BNSF put out the word that it was going via
> Topeka.
> I guess they changed their minds.

Don't worry, we forgive you. ;-)

My Heart Goes Where the Wild Goose Goes...Ernie Ford,
with Cliffy Stone's 'Hometown Jamboree' eminating from
the American Legion Hall..El Monte, CA...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/12 12:54 by Agt-Highland.

Cool shots, especially like the last one as the thought you put into it's execution produced a cool result!

Ted S-P

Killer finale, pal!!!

Lance