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NS 26R with BNSF 4511 crosses above CN U702 preparing to depart south. Conneaut, Ohio 2014-08-26.

Rob Smith
Hamilton, ON

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Nice one!

Posted from iPhone

Great shot!

Posted from Android

I can only dream about shots like this, very nice!


Jay

Unlike the Jays most days-you hit a home run Rob!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

Wow, excellent! Perfectly lit and IOTD material for sure. Is 26R the new train that is running Toledo-Buffalo?



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/14 19:32 by PittsburghMike.

Just, "WoW"
Gonut

That's really cool! New train symbol doesn't hurt either!

Posted from iPhone

Nice!!!

What a shot. You could not of staged it any better than that. MY vote for IOTD.
John

Am I envious or what? Fantastic photograph!!!

PittsburghMike Wrote:
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> Wow, excellent! Perfectly lit and IOTD material
> for sure. Is 26R the new train that is running
> Toledo-Buffalo?

You got it Mike. The majority of the train was UPS trailers, only 26 platforms if I recall correctly.

Rob Smith
Hamilton, ON

Yes, 26R and its opposite, 27R, are the new Toledo-Buffalo intermodals handling the "short" business formerly moved on 206/205. They run Tuesday-Friday. I'm guessing this 26R left Toledo a bit earlier than its carded 0830 departure time.

Nice shot, too. I've done the over-under thing at Conneaut but never with the Bessemer train so well spotted.

Agree with all the above, this was a nice catch and a well composed photo.
RAD

toledopatch Wrote:
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> Nice shot, too. I've done the over-under thing at
> Conneaut but never with the Bessemer train so well
> spotted.

Your chances of getting this kind of positioning are likely better than they have been for a while. With the coal traffic being handled this summer, it seems like they are often filling out ore trains with empty coal gons/hoppers on the rear. This is making for some longer than normal trains...for example, I shot a B&LE train leaving Conneaut on Saturday that was 109 cars. Roughly 2/3 was ore and the balance was empty hoppers. He was almost down to the road crossing for his air test after he did his multiple doubles. Unfortunately, NS didn't cooperate with a train in that window :-(

PittsburghMike Wrote:
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> toledopatch Wrote:
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> >
> > Nice shot, too. I've done the over-under thing
> at
> > Conneaut but never with the Bessemer train so
> well
> > spotted.
>
> Your chances of getting this kind of positioning
> are likely better than they have been for a while.
> With the coal traffic being handled this summer,
> it seems like they are often filling out ore
> trains with empty coal gons/hoppers on the rear.
> This is making for some longer than normal
> trains...for example, I shot a B&LE train leaving
> Conneaut on Saturday that was 109 cars. Roughly
> 2/3 was ore and the balance was empty hoppers. He
> was almost down to the road crossing for his air
> test after he did his multiple doubles.
> Unfortunately, NS didn't cooperate with a train
> in that window :-(

Again, you are correct Sir. We heard mention of 100 cars on the radio, however they had 113 cars leaving Conneaut with the empty coal hoppers tacked on the end.

Rob Smith
Hamilton, ON

SUPER shot - Congrats !

Jim

Great

Well done!

AWESOME