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Western Railroad Discussion > Excellent morning in the neighborhood . .Date: 09/19/14 11:27 Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: 3rdswitch . . for clearity the neighborhood being Palmer Lake, CO, located on the busy joint UP-BNSF Denver Pueblo Joint Line main. After watching a couple of UP northbounds pass through Palmer Lake and with info that a northbound BNSF coal empty was coming with a KCS Belle leader and a beautiful clear late summer morning, at least three more northbounds coming, there was only one thing to do, head on out to Greenland and wait it out to see if one of them was the KCS. Fortunatley the first one was not the KCS as my camera did nothing due to a dead battery so quickly used my trusty back up Sony Cybershot to catch the northbound BNSF manifest with a leasor second out as well as a DPU which is not a common occurance on northbounds. After a battery change out (never leave home without a spare) next train turned out to be the KCS led northbound coal empty followed by a pleasant surprise as a nice clean CP leased unit led the next northbound empty. With five north now passed it was time for the southbound backup to start flowing south onto the single track at Palmer Lake. . . three more to come . . .
   Date: 09/19/14 11:27 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: 3rdswitch . . the first out southbound was a typical BNSF coal train with an ugly dirty patched up MAC which I let slide but the second was an empty container trains of all JB Hunt containers which runs about once a week or so caught at Monument siding (top) followed by another typical BNSF southbound coal load in downtown Monument with a little fall color starting to show (middle) followed by another run of the mill BNSF southbound coal loads approaching Monument with Ben Lomand mountain in the background (bottom) ending a great nine train morning in the neighborhood.
JB Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/14 11:33 by 3rdswitch.    Date: 09/19/14 12:04 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: TedS-P Sweet! All in one morning too, love that KCS but nice to have a clean CP on the point as well.
Ted S-P Date: 09/19/14 12:10 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: rev66vette Very nice.....
Date: 09/19/14 12:21 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: TopDog Exceptional photos. That's quite the veriorty you guys get there in the Centennial state.
Date: 09/19/14 12:40 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: Ritzville Very Nice Variety! Thanks!
Larry Date: 09/19/14 13:34 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: oklachaser Great photos as always JB. That KCS sure looks good in your neighborhood.
Ronda Thomas Date: 09/19/14 16:04 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: rrartist I like the KCS Retro Belle the best Sir! All are super! Thanks for sharing!
Date: 09/19/14 16:46 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: ns1000 GREAT pics!!! Thanks for posting.
Date: 09/19/14 17:06 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: SP8595 Great morning indeed with the pair of nice leaders! Hard to beat that shot of the Southern Belle:}
Date: 09/19/14 22:22 Re: Excellent morning in the neighborhood . . Author: SD45X "Power Problems" caused some change at Texline.......Pumping air to depart...
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