Western Railroad Discussion > Ready to answer the bell!

On my way home from the Wichita NRHS October meeting last night I bent my path to include Salina. I was rewarded with 3 eastbound trains sitting in close proximity, getting the required ‘terminal inspections’ and general roundhouse service. Here are 2 of them as they looked @ 0120 hours from parallel Old US hwy 40 at the east end of the yard.

1. UP 6827 & 6694 sit side by side undergoing the final aspects of the required terminal inspection.
Photo taken in Salina, KS on October 22, 2016.

Thanks for looking!
Lance Garrels
santafe199



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/16 16:26 by santafe199.

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Interesting shot, we rarely have road power sets in Fremont but there's two sets just like Salina.
Must be noticing the grain coming in.

Out

Nice.
JB

What bell?

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boomer Wrote: > ... What bell...
Rich was right about the grain. And the other train is a coal load. Since these 2 "heavyweights" were getting prepped to run east, I thought I'd add a dash of boxing jargon into my script...

Lance/199 (lightweight... ;^)

Nice shot Mr. Lance

Nice lighting. But no lightning? What's the deal?

Thanks for posting. You got the colours just right.

King_Coal Wrote: > ... no lightning? What's the deal?
Thanks for all the compliments, guys! Lightning would have been cool, but if I could know exactly where & when it will strike I'd be in a slightly different business... Alas, I'll just have to take 'whatever I get'. The fun part here was knowing how busy Old 40 Highway is during the day. I spent almost 30" on this series of three dozen 15 ~ 30 second time exposures. During the day my vantage point on the edge of the road would have been suicide, but at 0130 hrs I only had to dodge 1 vehicle...

Lance/199

Very nice....!!