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Western Railroad Discussion > back to the neighborhood . .Date: 08/19/14 09:25 back to the neighborhood . . Author: 3rdswitch . . after waking up in KC with cruddy skies, slept in, checked out late, headed to KCS Knoche yard seeing no activity, ate a burger at Rock Creek Jct seeing nothing but a couple of BNSF's on the new high line decided to head west in the direction of home stopping for awhile in the Holliday area catching a westbound (top) with a nice set of power and an eastbound one unit wonder auto rack train coming off the Topeka Sub (middle) then headed for the UP at Lawrence hoping for a westbound in the nice afternoon sun but seeing nothing but eastbounds. A UP local that was in the clear there came out on the main but even he backed out of town headed east so started back west deciding somewhere along the way to just keep on going and ended up driving all the way home to Palmer Lake, CO arriving at 11 p.m. . . . .
   Date: 08/19/14 09:26 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: 3rdswitch . . . back home again in Palmer Lake, CO, located on the joint UP BNSF Denver Pueblo Joint Line main was awakened this morning be a fellow TO'er about an approaching northbound BNSF coal empty with a pair of CREX leasors for power dragging along a trio of brand new DIC ACe's for good measure so got up got dressed loaded the bike into the truck and headed north a mile or so from home and waiting with abundant clouds caught the above mentioned coal empty (top) as well as the DP set on the rear of a set of DP's on a northbound empty that was following going away with a different view of the "sag" (middle) as well as a southbound grain train just getting under way (bottom) after a short wait beginning another nice day in the neighborhood after twenty two days on the road putting fifty five hundred miles on the trip odometer.
JB Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/19/14 09:36 by 3rdswitch.    Date: 08/19/14 10:20 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: tomstp Wonder where the grain train is headed? South to Texas or south to the Transcon relieving congestion on northern lines?
Date: 08/19/14 10:47 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: SP8595 Didn't take you long to get back into the swing of things at the neighborhood:}
Date: 08/19/14 13:50 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: ns1000 GREAT pics!!
Date: 08/19/14 16:10 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: spider1319 Great pics.Number 5 is super.Bill Webb
Date: 08/19/14 17:33 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: Cajon92 Nice shots, JB.
~Ryan Date: 08/20/14 16:05 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: Torisgod You don't know how lucky you are...to be back in the USSR.
Tor in Eugene Date: 08/21/14 09:28 Re: back to the neighborhood . . Author: oklachaser Great photos as always JB. I enjoyed seeing the photos of your trip you took along the way. I'm glad you made it back home safely.
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