Western Railroad Discussion > Sullivans Curve - UP Stack and BNSF Stack

The UP stack train that was idling all day on the Canyon Siding (which is part of the Palmdale Cutoff)finally started moving when all of a sudden, a BNSF stack train zooms by on Main #2.

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Interesting UP stacker. Hadn't seen "Premier" trailers on UP before. Guessing this was a SLC or points east train?

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> Interesting UP stacker. Hadn't seen "Premier"
> trailers on UP before. Guessing this was a SLC or
> points east train?

It matches the ISCLB best, but longer than usual. A KG3LB is usually DPU and no trailers, a ZBRLC usually doesn't have that many marine cans.

The BNSF train could be one of many Qs. Could be the QNYCLAC6, which has a lot of rear domestic cans to cut off at San Bernardino.

mapboy

NICE video!!

mapboy Wrote:
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> Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> > Interesting UP stacker. Hadn't seen "Premier"
> > trailers on UP before. Guessing this was a SLC
> or
> > points east train?
>
> It matches the ISCLB best, but longer than usual.
> A KG3LB is usually DPU and no trailers, a ZBRLC
> usually doesn't have that many marine cans.
>
Probably was the ISCLB. Many of them have been getting quite long, as in 8000+ feet! On the day that this video was shot, I worked the QCHILAC6 to Barstow, arriving there late morning. While we were detraining, a westbound UP went by that looked exactly like the ISCLB except it had a DP motor on the rear. While going off duty I looked and it was a KDULB (they've been detouring some of the Dupo trains on the LA&SL recently, just as they've been detouring some traffic on BNSF). The ISCLB was not far behind the DULB and I remember it had 4 units, so this was probably that train.

-Tom