Western Railroad Discussion > speaking of 3x3x0's............

Mac's fine images of a 3x3x0 stack train out on the needles sub reminded me of this video that i had taken in kingman canyon last year.

here is a w/b 3x3x0 stack train on the bnsf's seligman sub just w/of downtown kingman, az.  

it seems that within the last year, these huge w/b stack trains with just mid-train dpu's have have taken the place of w/b stack trains with both mid-train and rear dpu's.........

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Nice catch of a very LONG double stacker 66!

Larry

The Needles Sub appears to be hosting a fair number of these. I found this one coming west at East Goffs back in October last year. Like the video.
—Mac

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That (DPU's)   is something you rarely see on UP's x T&P line.  Nearly all trains have head end power only.  Now, when 2 trains are combined you will see mid train DPU,s.   UP'S x-Cotton Belt has 1x1x1, and 2x0x1 lots of times.

BNSF uses DPU's a lot.

i saw an e/b 3x1 z train today with a LOT of tofc out here on the seligman sub today.  if i can, i'll get the next one i see on video and post it here.............

66

Interesting consist. All domestic boxes forward of the DP's and all marine boxes behind the DP's.

And no 20' cans, all big boxes.

in the last year, i have not seen any more w/b huge stack trains configured with BOTH mid-train and rear dpu's consisting of ONLY marine/international containers.

in this day and age from what i have seen trackside, if a w/b stack train has only marine/international containers, they are either not very long or combined with domestic containers and/or baretables.

i still see an occasional huge e/b stack train with both mid-train and rear dpu's consisting of ONLY marine/international containers.  

not as many as i used to see and possibly not a good sign for the economy...........

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WJEX Wrote:
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> Interesting consist. All domestic boxes forward of
> the DP's and all marine boxes behind the DP's.
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> And no 20' cans, all big boxes.PSR-----2 different trains combined.

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