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Date: 10/29/14 08:36
Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: milepost180

Yesterday GGG and I decided to do some Railfanning at Frost. We averaged a train every 12 minutes. Not bad. This consist appeared and was slowing to a stop. He had a flashing yellow so I was somewhat puzzled. To my surprise the methane train made a quick stop for inspection before continuing WB. I apologize for some of the shots as I ended up with my EF 100-400 and no way to retrieve my 24-70.



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Date: 10/29/14 08:39
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: milepost180

1&2 Taking a quick look.
3 Look at all the connections



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Date: 10/29/14 08:43
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: milepost180

1 Heading back to the Kootenai
2 Lots of wires
3 Getting ready to roll.



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Date: 10/29/14 08:46
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: milepost180

See ya later!
All this was less than 10 minutes. Lucky catch!


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Date: 10/29/14 09:45
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: myjbh1989

Looks like they hired a car stereo "installer" to put all that wiring in! Nice job EMD/BNSF

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Date: 10/29/14 12:17
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: BruceStikkers

Railfanning is being at the right place at the right time. That is what makes it so fascinating, you can get something quite unexpected, but really neat.

Bruce

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Date: 10/29/14 13:34
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: mapboy

The "low gas" warning light lit up on his dashboard! 8>)

mapboy

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Date: 10/29/14 19:20
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: Out_Of_Service

i like photo #3 ... WHICH photo #3 you ask ... now you get my point

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Date: 10/29/14 22:40
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: 567Chant

I wonder what's the procedure for reassembling that bowl of spaghetti in the event of a break-in-two, and how long it requires.
Can they proceed on (conventional) diesel fuel?
...Lorenzo

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Date: 10/30/14 12:26
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: Kimball

Which unit or units are LPG? One or two in there are just regular diesels, right?

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Date: 10/30/14 19:14
Re: Methane makes an unexpected stop at Frost
Author: SOO6617

Kimball Wrote:
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> Which unit or units are LPG? One or two in there
> are just regular diesels, right?

LPG is Liquid Propane, this is LNG Liquified Natural Gas(primarily Methane). The two trailing SD70ACe locomotives are modified to run on LNG, the lead GE is just a diesel.

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