Western Railroad Discussion > New SD70ACe's UP8342/UP8337 in Oakland - Night and Day

(update 15:28 05/04/05)

At 1:30P, the power was wyed (for some odd reason) so UP8337 is now leading east
with UP8342 trailing. The UP crew left both nose doors wide open during this move so
all of my roster photos are very ugly! Rain started coming down at 2PM and is getting
heavier.

KOAG1-04 stacker departed 10 minutes after I left the tracks to go bacl to work. Alex Ramos
reports it was flying through Emeryville on the mainline at full trackspeed in the rain.
Through Stege (Richmond) at 2:51P...

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(original post 12:03 05/04/05)

All yellow stripes and clean as can be. A team of local East Bay railfans accompanied me last night to see them arrive (late) into West Oakland via Jack London Square at around 10:30P.

Today's eastbound stack train is the KOAG1-04 ready to depart the Desert Yard sometime around 1P. In the past, this train has left town early...


Herez a few blurry pacing shots taken runing along side the inbound IG2OA-29 last night through "Da Square" aka Jack London Square. Well, the best I could do with the super crapola pothole filled street that the city of Oakland REALLY needs to fix. As I'm sure those of you who have seen these puppies know by now, these new five chimes on the SD70ACe are SUPER deafening so even trying to hold still and not squirm for these shots took a lot of ear drum abuse! Really interested to see how Mikey's shots from the "rear photographer platform" came out...


-Ryan aka "espeeboy"
on the ex-WP Oakland Sub MP11.2

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damn I need one of those Steady Cams...

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Train had made an unexpected 30 second stop right in front of the OKJ Amtrak station, of course only to tease me Ramos-Man and Mikey. Otherwise they didn't ever come to a complete stop until well into the middle of the intermodal packer tracks at West Oakland - in perfect yard night light!!!

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heh, cool pics Ryan, I didn't even bother taking any pacing shots last night, thinking that they would probably stop somewhere else where I could get some photos... nope. Hopefully when they depart in about an hour, I can get some photos of the pair. Wish me luck.

Later,
Alex Ramos

Dang Ryan! Wisen up. Tell everyone that "you've been trying to get this artistic effect for a couple of months now and it finally came together last night"

Hey Ryan,

Thanx always for the headsup! I was able to bag both of them today as well!

Nice pix!! I wonder if that CP8800 would be better as it might provide some decent image stabilization for those cool JLS pacing shots..

Cheers,
Harry

Those new horns have been said to be 'sweet', maybe if you have cotton in your belly button and your head... They seem to be ridiculous even a block away, don't quite understand what that's all about.
...and they're backwards. Read what the guy says, think about it, they're backwards. Maybe designed to be backwards, but they're backwards to make it louder when you're a block away.
Thanks for posting the photo.

Here is one of it speeding through Emeryville.......

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one of the yellow reflective tape..

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headsup, they passed through Haggin jnct. at 4:50pm

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moving past Schnitzer Steel on the first leg of the old WP South Oakland wye

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A little soon for the scrapyard, wouldn't you say?

espeeboy Wrote:
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> moving past Schnitzer Steel on the first leg of
> the old WP South Oakland wye

danf Wrote:
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> A little soon for the scrapyard, wouldn't you
> say?
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> espeeboy Wrote:
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> > moving past Schnitzer Steel on the first leg
> of
> > the old WP South Oakland wye
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>
>


Not soon enough! Those ugly things make the F59PHI and the MP36 tapons look good.

yup, they were this close to going to scrap!

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A rear right roster shot of the UP8337. Geez, the last time I saw an 8337, it was the snoot nosed SP8337 in a locomotive deadline!!!)

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another overcast drizzly roster of the 8342 - somebody shut that dumb door!!!

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espeeboy Wrote:
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> another overcast drizzly roster of the 8342 -
> somebody shut that dumb door!!!

Maybe if you had a bigger tripod (or even one with three legs) you could have nudged it closed....

an old leftover WP switchstand (locked and spiked) managed to jump into my shot. Port of Oakland in the background where BNSF currently uses the three year old Oakland International Gateway intermodal facility...

Hey now Mikey-Man, don't discriminate against my handicapped midget tripod (a bipod?)

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thanks to the wonders of physics and a hard braking by the engineer, my prayers on shutting that dumb nose door on the 8342 were ALMOST answered! Yeah, almost but as soon as this thing moved the other direction and braked again - yup back to WIDE OPEN!

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