Western Railroad Discussion > A few trains from the weekend

I had some free time Sunday so I began the day by checking out Cajon.

1) I had some help from several friends with locations throughout the morning. Starting with this trio of UP Tier-4’s on a southbound Roseville manifest nearing its West Colton destination. Engines 2585, 2609 and 2599 are seen near Baseline Road in San Bernardino.

2) I then heard the BNSF Cajon dispatcher talking to the 4247East, catching up to him at Pine Lodge at 8:45AM.

3) The trailing unit in 4247’s consist was freshly painted Dash-9 5017.
 

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4) After starting down to San Bernardino, I got alerted by another friend that two northbound UP's were heading up the cut-off. The first was a manifest with UP 8867 leading an all EMD consist above Blue Cut.

5) Following close behind was a lengthy Mojave Flyer with leader 3990.

6) A roster shot of the freshly repainted former SP SD70M.
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/16 22:05 by oyw.

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7) Later that afternoon while running some errands in the Pomona area, we got another heads up that a new UP SD70AH was nearing westbound on the Alhambra Sub. UP 9004 is seen passing beneath me from the Grand Ave bridge in Walnut.

8) A couple filler shots from a very cloudy Monday, Metrolink train 304 passing MP 38 in Upland with leased Michigan unit RBRX 18533.

9) Finally, from the same location but looking the other way, a "high-sun" attempt of the Pasadena local. It looks like the same consist turned around that Rich got today minus the trailing GP60M-3 144.

Most of these trains I would have never gotten without the help of others, so thank you all.

OYW
 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/16 22:11 by oyw.

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Great photos all, Bob. 

You even make the high sun look good too on that last shot.

Rich



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/16 22:40 by PasadenaSub.

Agreed, a Great series
 

Huh... I was wondering what warranted the fresh paint job on BNSF 5017? It was delivered in August 2004 in H2 paint (extremely late for BNSF Dash-9s), and a mear five months before the first 7600 series ES44DCs began arriving on the property.

Many of the more recent pics I could gather online showed it in reasonable appearance as of early 2015. Maybe a very slight fade in the orange...
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3708143,3708143#3708143\

Then a pic from TO member Ritzville in May of 2015 showed me the justification. Engine fire, fireman's side. Gotta love 'dem toasters.
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3745101,3745104#3745104

Mr. MRL

Nice shots, especially the four unit set of GP60's!

Great bunch! Without the caption my first thought on number one was whats this big power doing on the Crestmore ;-)
JB



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/27/16 05:38 by 3rdswitch.

Nice series of the day.  Sure is great to see some older units getting new paint and rebuilds.
Brian Stevens

Nice shots, Bob.  Nice selection of locations, too.

GK

Great series of photos, Bob. 

Ryan

Nice shots oyw! I bet you could do a "before and after" on that SP/UP SD70m:}