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Western Railroad Discussion > Turkey day Suprise down CajonDate: 11/27/14 12:39 Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: DRGW I took off early this morning to catch a late running Amtrak #3 at Frost. After getting Amtrak just before 8am I decided to stick around and wait for a few westbounds that I had heard on the radio waiting near Oro Grande due to single tracking because of a broken rail. Much to my surprise the second westbound freight was a BNSF vehicle train heading to San Bernardino with CSX AC6000 606 leading and CP 9512! How this power made it past Barstow is beyond me. A chase through Hesperia and down Cajon was in order. A little bit of a scare occurred when the train approached Hesperia when the CP unit went belly up, and CSXT 606 West notified the Cajon Sub DS that they were maxed out and were almost stalled on the grade. A helper call was put in, but the crew was able to get the CP unit back online and the train made the Summit without further delay.
1-3. Frost Date: 11/27/14 12:41 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: DRGW Date: 11/27/14 12:42 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: westernking Great catch
Date: 11/27/14 12:42 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: DRGW Date: 11/27/14 12:44 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: DRGW Date: 11/27/14 12:45 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: oilcan Awesome shots, Matt.
Date: 11/27/14 12:55 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: slug96 Good stuff Matt! It's nice to see some friendly faces at Frost when I went by.
Posted from Android Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/14 20:14 by slug96. Date: 11/27/14 14:03 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: FCP901 Excellent! Pool-is-cool-Matt doesn't even take a holiday off!
FCP901 Date: 11/27/14 14:04 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: C-Scott-Schmidt Your photos are very impressive. Quite the variety of locomotive power you have been able to catch over the last week. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Date: 11/27/14 14:07 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: TheNavigator Great catch, Matt; thanks for getting out there and posting. Sure do like seeing those "pure" pool consists.
CSXT 606 does manage to get around: St. Denis, Maryland, January 5, 2013, leading an eastbound loaded coal train to the CSXT coal facility at Curtis Bay, MD. Gary Date: 11/27/14 14:52 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: ns1000 GREAT stuff...!!! Thanks for sharing.
Date: 11/27/14 15:14 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: cchan006 DRGW Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 10. Approaching Summit near Martinez. > > 11-12. Mormon Rocks. > > Happy Thanksgiving! > > -DRGW Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. Wow, Matt, you keep hitting one out of the park, another pool power homerun! I don't care if CSX AC6000s have been derated by computer to 4400 hp, those dual exhausts are nice to see out here in CA. Date: 11/27/14 15:17 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: SoCalRailFan Good catch. I saw it coming down Cajon Blvd behind another train. Around 11am or so I saw the power by itself near the refueling area in the yard.
Dave Toussaint Riverside, CA SoCalRailFan.com Date: 11/27/14 15:29 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: Valleyman No Turkeys in that consist Matt. Enjoy your Thanksgiving now that you've bagged your prey!
Valleyman Date: 11/27/14 16:08 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: PHall Not surprising at all that the two "foreign" units made it past Barstow. They're both fairly new GE's and thus meet the "standard".
Date: 11/27/14 16:18 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: DRGW PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Not surprising at all that the two "foreign" units > made it past Barstow. They're both fairly new GE's > and thus meet the "standard". Actually it is! 99% of any foreign units are always pulled at Barstow if the train is heading into the LA Basin. This is only the 3rd or 4th BNSF train over the last 5 or so years to make it in with a pool unit leading. Date: 11/27/14 16:30 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: funnelfan Surprised no one mentioned the revised linkages on the truck. Didn't realize that anyone was modifying the GE steerable trucks.
Ted Curphey Ontario, OR Date: 11/27/14 16:39 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: chips7335 Great story along with the images.
Date: 11/27/14 16:50 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: TedS-P Up until my on duty call, I thought I was going to catch this train out of Winslow. When I heard Z-9 instead, I was honestly disappointed.
Ted S-P Posted from iPhone Date: 11/27/14 17:07 Re: Turkey day Suprise down Cajon Author: wa4umr TheNavigator Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > > CSXT 606 does manage to get around: St. Denis, > Maryland, January 5, 2013, leading an eastbound > loaded coal train to the CSXT coal facility at > Curtis Bay, MD. > > Gary The last time I saw it was in Louisville, Ky. I don't remember when but it's been over a year. John |