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Date: 01/10/25 00:20
Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: cchan006

I caught the UP 1943 and UP 1982 on Sunday. Next day, I roamed around between Indio and Palm Springs wherever the radio chatter took me.

- LOH53 at Indio. Ran light, no cars.
- Western Pacific boxcar on a westbound.
- Documented the other side, too.



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Date: 01/10/25 00:26
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: cchan006

I took extra effort to document non-graffiti cars to balance out the bad karma from the graffiti on the WP boxcar. :-)



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Date: 01/10/25 00:30
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: cchan006

Cleanliness is next to...

UP 5675 is very clean. This train started the afternoon westbound Z train parade on Monday.



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Date: 01/10/25 00:41
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: cchan006

El Centro Haulers (MECWC and MWCEC) met near old CP "Mons" between West Palm Springs and Cabazon, but I was roaming semi-randomly, not looking for meets, so I was too late to document it.

But I did follow the MECWC because it was properly-powered with an interesting consist, so it ran quicker up from Palm Springs than other manifests that were too long and a bit underpowered: UP 2644 (T4 GE), UP 5221 (rare 52xx SD70M), smoking UP 8324 (early SD70ACe), and UP 4969 (Flared radiator SD70M).

That's it for this report.

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Date: 01/10/25 01:02
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: doge_of_pocopson

Nice work, thank you for these glimpses - B

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Date: 01/10/25 06:38
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: mcdeo

Thanks for sharing, great stuff. Looks like the 5675 is one of those C44ACM rebuilds. I'm thinking UP will eventually rebuild all AC4400CW's, but without a renumbering, difficult to track. 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

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Date: 01/10/25 06:57
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: SCUfoamer

Love the old WP boxcar. I haven't seen one in ages!

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Date: 01/10/25 08:46
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: PHall

SCUfoamer Wrote:
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> Love the old WP boxcar. I haven't seen one in
> ages!

Shoot them while you can, they age out in a couple of years.

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Date: 01/10/25 14:41
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: GP25

The WP Boxcar has a ton of miles on it

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

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Date: 01/10/25 18:47
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: 90mac

That should be Leap Frog to be correct.
Lol.
TAH

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Date: 01/10/25 19:43
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: pennsy3750

Never mind the graffiti, what happened to the roof on that WP car?

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Date: 01/10/25 21:05
Re: Fun Between Indio and Palm Springs (SoCal)
Author: GoldenState

pennsy3750 Wrote:
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> Never mind the graffiti, what happened to the roof
> on that WP car?

The forklift operator lifted the load inside too high and pushed it up. Fairly common to see this happen.

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