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Western Railroad Discussion > Five Railroads, One Grain TrainDate: 11/21/14 13:20 Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: zchcsse While enjoying the nice weather this morning around Needles, CA, I caught this westbound BNSF grain train at Park Moabi, CA. Park Moabi is along BNSF's Seligman Subdivision and is located between the Colorado River crossing at Topock, and the city of Needles, CA.
This grain train was a "Triple Penetrator" and was in a 5x3x2 configuration. The head 5 motors were BNSF/BNSF/CSX/NS/UP so the 'Big 4' U.S. railroads were all represented. The middle three locomotives were all BNSF and of the rear two, one was a gray KCS (on the rear facing out). To top that all off, about 2/3 of the train was made up of brand new covered hoppers. The only thing this train lacked was a Heritage Hopper! So enjoy this clip of an interesting grain train curving through Park Moabi in the Mojave Desert. The entire train is shown. Thanks for watching! -Tom You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 11/21/14 13:37 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: electromac Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee
Date: 11/21/14 14:37 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: ChrisCampi Neat! Sounds like a swarm of angry bee's. Where's all this grain headed? Is it for export?
Chris Date: 11/21/14 14:50 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: Frontrunner The Earth worm looks great without the ghetto art......so far.
Date: 11/21/14 15:09 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: dcfbalcoS1 One railroad, just borrowed units.
Date: 11/21/14 15:50 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: rev66vette Cool!
Date: 11/21/14 17:39 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: ns1000 Nice video!!!
Date: 11/21/14 17:46 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: trainman630 I counted 109 hoppers.
Date: 11/21/14 18:37 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: zchcsse ChrisCampi Wrote:
Where's > all this grain headed? Is it for export? > > Chris These "Triple Penetrator" grain trains head to California's Central Valley. I believe they are cattle feed or something. -Tom Date: 11/21/14 18:41 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: zchcsse dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > One railroad, just borrowed units. I'm aware of that. The most appropriate title, then, would be "Five Railroads (Represented In the Locomotive Consists), One Grain Train". But that's a little wordy for a subject line, and I sincerely doubted that anyone on T.O. would think after reading the post and/or seeing the clip that 5 railroad companies came together to move one grain train at the same time. Date: 11/21/14 20:55 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: kd0086 Niiiiiice, a true earthworm, no gray hoppers!
Date: 11/21/14 23:53 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: mapboy zchcsse Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > dcfbalcoS1 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > One railroad, just borrowed units. > > > I'm aware of that. The most appropriate title, > then, would be "Five Railroads (Represented In the > Locomotive Consists), One Grain Train". But > that's a little wordy for a subject line, and I > sincerely doubted that anyone on T.O. would think > after reading the post and/or seeing the clip that > 5 railroad companies came together to move one > grain train at the same time. "Five Railroads, One Grain Train" fits the subject matter and describes what I hoped to see. mapboy Date: 11/22/14 07:52 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: gjc Date: 11/22/14 13:42 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: ClubCar Very Nice!! I just wished that the railroad was still called the Burlington Northern Santa Fe. I hate just letters such as BNSF and CSX etc. But we have no say. Otherwise CSX would be the Chessie Seaboard Railroad.
Date: 11/22/14 14:25 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: spandfecerwin mapboy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > "Five Railroads, One Grain Train" fits the subject > matter and describes what I hoped to see. > > mapboy ------------------------------------------------------- Now you have seen what it is, a very nice clip with a very interesting train - be happy Erwin from Austria Date: 11/22/14 18:46 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: ErieLimited54 Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Any idea where this train originated and where it was going to?
Date: 11/23/14 13:09 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: ntharalson Good stuff, thanks for posting. Enjoyed watching it.
Nick Tharalson, Marion, IA Date: 11/24/14 06:03 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: steve_misky Awesome video, really liked the head-end appearing in the far distance really giving a nice perspective against the dramatic scenery.
BTW, I know exactly what you meant with the title. :-D Date: 11/25/14 06:50 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: Normanroger Some grain winds up being exported at Stockton port.
Date: 01/12/15 05:52 Re: Five Railroads, One Grain Train Author: Normanroger Why the extra power? This is usually 3-2-1 configuration. Late?
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