Western Railroad Discussion > New Years Day on the Seligman Sub

The first day of 2012 and why not spend it shoot the Seligman Sub! It was a very busy day of non stop traffic. A great way to start off the new year.

1- A Z LACATG charges out of Darling down the Arizona Divide.
2- A hot Z train knocks down a green light just east of Flagstaff.
3- A 10,000 foot stack slowly moves down divide at Bellemont after the two DPUs died. The crew would stop to try to link back up the two units.

~David Carballido-Jeans
San Pedro, CA

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Nice! I did a Route 66 Railway road trip between San Berdoo and Flagstaff back in 2009 with author Elrond Lawrence and we hit each of the locations in your photos. Can't wait for another Arizona road trip!

Good choice as the Sunset route was dead New Years Day.

Just beautiful! Nice shot's and thanks for posting.

Very nice!!!!!!

That shot at Darling is always a classic, any time of the year. Looks like the snow's starting to disappear around "Flag" now, too, but at least you guys did have a COUPLE decent storms!

Bob
Thayne, WY

Awesome pics! And I have a question for all you smart people. You know I was traveling to the Fiesta Bowl, and spent New Years Eve at the La Quinta Inn in Gallup NM and from the time I checked in (about 5:30pm) until I left to celebrate New Years at the local casino (about 9:30pm) a train rolled by my window sometimes 13 minutes apart to as much as 40 minutes apart and the count was 4 general merchandise, 6 coal, and 6 intermodel. I also caught the first train of 2012 when the casino shuttle bus dropped me off at the hotel at 12:30 and a general merchandise was rolling east. Then the next morning, this hungover sailor was awakened at 6:30 when he heard a train rolling by but was to hungover to watch it roll by. Now my question is, does BNSF not recognize New Years as a holiday, did they shutdown on the 2nd as per the government mandated holiday or was their so much traffic they had to keep running? From 6:30 am until I checked out at 11:00am an astonishing 15 trains rolled by. So I was just curious why they (BNSF) was running so many trains on a "holiday".

R/
ss

Soonersailor Wrote:
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> Awesome pics! And I have a question for all you
> smart people. You know I was traveling to the
> Fiesta Bowl, and spent New Years Eve at the La
> Quinta Inn in Gallup NM and from the time I
> checked in (about 5:30pm) until I left to
> celebrate New Years at the local casino (about
> 9:30pm) a train rolled by my window sometimes 13
> minutes apart to as much as 40 minutes apart and
> the count was 4 general merchandise, 6 coal, and 6
> intermodel. I also caught the first train of 2012
> when the casino shuttle bus dropped me off at the
> hotel at 12:30 and a general merchandise was
> rolling east. Then the next morning, this hungover
> sailor was awakened at 6:30 when he heard a train
> rolling by but was to hungover to watch it roll
> by. Now my question is, does BNSF not recognize
> New Years as a holiday, did they shutdown on the
> 2nd as per the government mandated holiday or was
> their so much traffic they had to keep running?
> From 6:30 am until I checked out at 11:00am an
> astonishing 15 trains rolled by. So I was just
> curious why they (BNSF) was running so many trains
> on a "holiday".
>
> R/
> ss

New years eve and new years day were both very busy for the BNSF, but the 2nd, 3nd and today have been very slow. There has been A LOT of track work on the Seligman sub so they must of been trying to send all of the trains they could before these work windows.

~David Carballido-Jeans
San Pedro, CA

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Great shots!!!

Sounds like you may have an Amtrak34east sighting tomorrow.......

Robert Scott
Rochester, WA