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Western Railroad Discussion > Interesting train arrangement on H-LAUDEN (also, "warbonnets"!)Date: 10/12/21 21:16 Interesting train arrangement on H-LAUDEN (also, "warbonnets"!) Author: jmulhol2 BNSF #7615 leads a long 5x0 southbound H-LAUDEN (high-priority manifest freight train from Laurel, MT --to-- Denver, CO) past ~MP69.5 on the BNSF Front Range Subdivision in South Fort Collins, CO during the grey, cool, and rainy afternoon hours of 10/12/2021. Most of these motors had previously been on northbound loaded "frac" sand unit trains either bound for the Halliburton Sand Plant in Windsor, CO or Swan Ranch in Speer, WY. The power included two "warbonnet" motors, BNSF #776 (GE C44-9W; built: 09/1997) and #625 (GE C44-9W; built: 02/1994; Ex-ATSF). The train was arranged in quite an interesting way, with a few mixed freight cars up front, then a long string of empty flatcars, followed by a few mixed freight cars on the tail end. In fact, a civilian in Wellington, CO reported these rear mixed freight cars as being "runaway cars" since they did not see the long string of empty flatcars ahead of it, which forced this train (in addition to the "Cheyenne Local" switch train) to both stop momentarily while things were assessed. The afternoon dispatcher was quite perplexed, but had a good chuckle at it all after-the-fact...
Total # of axles = 426 You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 10/13/21 06:10 Re: Interesting train arrangement on H-LAUDEN (also, "warbonnets" Author: 3rdswitch Nice catch. Hope most of those freight cars on the rear were empty! Nothing like handling a train with four hundred feet of slack in the middle with a thousand ton bowling ball on the rear!
JB Date: 10/13/21 07:37 Re: Interesting train arrangement on H-LAUDEN (also, "warbonnets" Author: jmulhol2 3rdswitch Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Nice catch. Hope most of those freight cars on the > rear were empty! Nothing like handling a train > with four hundred feet of slack in the middle with > a thousand ton bowling ball on the rear! > JB Exactly what I was thinking! They seemed to make it into Denver, CO, alright... thankfully... |