Western Railroad Discussion > Arizona Coal

Last Wednesday afternoon, the parade of doublestacks through Williams Junction on the Seligman Sub was interrupted by the passage of 12,658 tons of coal from Defiance, New Mexico bound for Mitsubishi Cement at Cushenbury off the Cajon Sub. A special thank you to TO member mapboy for supplying the symbol and tonnage on this 89 car C-CCOMCC-005A. The attached video provided all the impetus needed to acquire a shotgun microphone.
Be of good cheer,
—Mac
www.lowellamrine.com

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Well done and thanks for sparing us the boring long video of endless identical coal cars and catching the dpu instead!

I haven’t seen any coal trains on this line yet. Great catch.

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RFandPFan Wrote:
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> I haven’t seen any coal trains on this line yet.
> Great catch.

They are a real treat in the land of endless Z and Q trains.  Russ and I got one load and one empty during our 5 days on the Transcon in March.

My 3 days in AZ in May I got a grand total of zero.

Andy

AndyBrown

> They are a real treat in the land of endless Z and
> Q trains.  Russ and I got one load and one empty
> during our 5 days on the Transcon in March.
>
> My 3 days in AZ in May I got a grand total of
> zero.
>
> Andy

They sure must be! I’m trackside today and this is one busy line. The woman dispatcher is a real character. She told one crew “Because of maintenance, I’ve got 22 miles of single track. So once I get done flushing all the westbounds, I’ll start flushing all the eastbounds through!”

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Nice series and great sounding EMD horn echoing away. I hear those EMD horns quite a bit in the back yard.

Larry

Nice Mac.  I saw one of those trains on the Flagstaff cam recently and was real happy to see a coal train on the Transcon.  Now if they only ran when I'm down there fanning.

The Cushenburry coal train is at a once-per-month pace so far this year.  Last year it was less.

Ted Ferkenhoff
Flagstaff, AZ

RFandPFan Wrote:

> They sure must be! I’m trackside today and this
> is one busy line. The woman dispatcher is a real
> character. She told one crew “Because of
> maintenance, I’ve got 22 miles of single track.
> So once I get done flushing all the westbounds,
> I’ll start flushing all the eastbounds
> through!”
>
> Posted from iPhone

Reminds me of a day in Glenwood Canyon in Colorado back when SP was running 40+ trains per day through there.  The Dispatcher in Denver (who I knew personally from his days as a D&RGW clerk years before) had his hands full.  Rocks were down in the canyon, signals were down all over the place, he was having to "talk" trains past signals, give track and time to MOW, "rejigger" meets, etc.  At one point, he had been on the radio for almost 20 minutes straight trying to keep everything moving.  Things were getting pretty tense and terse with all of that activity.   Then, he stopped for just a moment, then blurted out over the radio, "By God, we're doin' some railroadin' now."  It broke the tension, and everybody seemed to take a few breaths and things settled down.  He was an excellent dispatcher.  I won't give his full name, but his initials were "MVD," which he would say phonetically as "Mad Vicious Dog."

WW Wrote:
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> RFandPFan Wrote:
>
> > They sure must be! I’m trackside today and
> this
> > is one busy line. The woman dispatcher is a
> real
> > character. She told one crew “Because of
> > maintenance, I’ve got 22 miles of single
> track.
> > So once I get done flushing all the westbounds,
> > I’ll start flushing all the eastbounds
> > through!”
> >
> > Posted from iPhone
>
> Reminds me of a day in Glenwood Canyon in Colorado
> back when SP was running 40+ trains per day
> through there.  The Dispatcher in Denver (who I
> knew personally from his days as a D&RGW clerk
> years before) had his hands full.  Rocks were
> down in the canyon, signals were down all over the
> place, he was having to "talk" trains past
> signals, give track and time to MOW, "rejigger"
> meets, etc.  At one point, he had been on the
> radio for almost 20 minutes straight trying to
> keep everything moving.  Things were getting
> pretty tense and terse with all of that
> activity.   Then, he stopped for just a moment,
> then blurted out over the radio, "By God, we're
> doin' some railroadin' now."  It broke the
> tension, and everybody seemed to take a few
> breaths and things settled down.  He was an
> excellent dispatcher.  I won't give his full
> name, but his initials were "MVD," which he would
> say phonetically as "Mad Vicious Dog."

SP ran 40+/day through that route at one point?