Western Railroad Discussion > UP 8021 West (ISALB-07) - 2020.01.08 @ 4:12 PM

Hello TO,
Here is UP 8021 West on 01/08/2020 along the Gila Sub.

UP 8021 West
ISALB-07 (Intermodal-San Antonio-Long Beach)
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UP 8021 (GE C45ACCTE), UP 6776 (GE C44AC), UP 5688 (GE C44ACCTE)
MidTrain DPUs: UP 8144 (GE C45AH), UP 5563 (GE C44ACCTE)
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West of CP SP918 Casa Grande
UP's Gila Subdivision (MP 915)
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Casa Grande, AZ
2020.01.08 @ 4:12 PM

Hope you enjoy the Photos and Video!  Thanks for Viewing!

SouthWest RailCams
CA, NM, CO, TX, AZ
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Excellent Footage. I would like to make one comment off topic about this video. First, I will tell you, I have NO EXPERIENCE running real trains, how they operater, any of the rules of governing their movements, etc. I just CAN'T UNDERSTAND for the life of me how ONE MAN would be able to control that big an object. What if a knuckle or draw bar breaks on the last car....in the middle of "no where" Canada....in a snow storm...and the train is on a long single track bridge....on a moonless, cloudy night....?  ×   

Nice catch of a friendly long train in the sunshine Christina! Haven't seen much sunshine in the backyard lately, just swampy mud, lol.

Larry

Nice catch. Stack trains have the least slack of all freight trains. Also, NORMALLY, less tons per operative brake, less slack plus less TOB equals less chance of broken knuckle. IF it does happen, the engineer kicks back while the conductor takes care of it. This particular territory, being pretty flat, would be a MUCH easier job for the engineer as opposed to say the BNSF Seligman Sub, with it's many undulations, IMHO.  Each set of DPU's can be operated individually or in concert with whatever is going on with the lead power, I am guessing this particular run can be run with all power doing the same thing, which is also much easier than individually.
JB

Probably a pretty light train with all those marine containers mostly empty returning to the Port of Long Beach/LA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/20 17:40 by BarstowRiff.

Nice work.  Nice to see such good light and blue skies
Brian Stevens

BarstowRiff Wrote:
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> Probably a pretty light train with all those
> marine containers mostly empty returning to the
> Port of Long Beach/LA

5 units including 2 dpus for an empty train?