Western Railroad Discussion > A Day out at Shawmut (AZ)

Now that another long hot summer is gone it was time to go back out into the Arizona desert and see some trains. While it wasn't a real busy day we saw 8 trains in about 7 hours.

Here are a few photos:

1 - The first UP ET44AC that I have seen.
2 - Same train backed off on the zoom. It appears that the front truck has been swapped out recently.
3 - Another generic eastbound.


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4 - What looks like to be a almost brand new ET44AC.
5 - Same train at a wider angle.
6 - A rolling roster of the 2739 - it sure was glistening in the afternoon sun.


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7 - A westbound military train.
8 - This was an alleged "UPS Test Train" according to the DS and also to a westbound crew who asked them if they felt "special" today. However this train was snailing along at 49 mph and there wasn't a single piece of UPS equipment on it! No pigs or boxes with UPS markings,
9 - Another eastbound however seeing 5 units on the head end is not all that common anymore.


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/16 23:11 by ACR_Ted.

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10 - After sunset we got two westbounds....here the first one is lit up by a camera mounted flash. I do like the way the striping shows.
11 - Here it was almost completely dark making the UP wings stand out nicely against the dark background.


Thanks for looking!

Ted
 

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Awesome photos Ted :)