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International Railroad Discussion > Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil)Date: 06/30/25 11:34 Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: pedrop On June 27 I decided to spend my birthday railfaning in the morning, so I decided to get more drone vies of Wison Lobato yard (EWL). Here are some pictures.
1) We can see the old Wilson Lobato station in the center of the photo. The small shops and fueling facilites are on the right. EWL station is now closed and all switching operations are controled from the shops office; 2) The upper side of EWL yardseen towars North. We can see the old Lafarge cement factory branch at right. The branch was closed about fifhteen years ago since the new cement group Nacional decided to use trucks to deliver the cement. The factory can be seen here Nacional Cement Co 3) Another view of EWL yard, now seen towards South with Pedro Leopoldo city in the background. Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG,    Date: 06/30/25 11:41 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: pedrop 4) The small EWL shops that gives light maintenance to the GE U20C that operates in the Pirapora branch and also the ones that go north to Bahia state;
5) Another view of EWL shops; 6) The big BB40-3 8136 and 6506 seen here are the units used to lead the rail trains produced in EWL welding yard. Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1    Date: 06/30/25 11:50 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: pedrop 7) A quartet of U20C near the locomotive shops. These units work in the Pirapora branck, getting grain trains to EWL yard where they are formed to be sent to Vale mining mainline to Vitoria Es port;
8) Flat cars scrapped in the yard; 9) EWL yard serves the CNS (former Holcin) cement factory. Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1    Date: 06/30/25 12:01 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: pedrop 10) A view of CSN cement plant seen towards EWL yard (far in the background);
11) MRS hopper cars loaded with slag on CNS tracks; 12) For those who likes fishing, there is a nice fishing area in Wilson Lobato. That´s al for today! Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1    Date: 06/30/25 12:05 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: ts1457 Thanks for sharing.
Seeing an overview of a yard is very interesting. Date: 06/30/25 16:06 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: Ritzville Very NIce and interesting drone views Pedro. Happy Birthday! My birthday is June 26, the big and painful 78, lol.
Larry Date: 06/30/25 16:44 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: pedrop Happy birthday Larry! We are 20 years apart.
Pedro Ritzville Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very NIce and interesting drone views Pedro. Happy > Birthday! My birthday is June 26, the big and > painful 78, lol. > > Larry Posted from Android Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1 Date: 07/01/25 01:06 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: E25 Another great survey by drone. Thanks... and Happy Birthday, Pedro.
Greg Stadter Phoenix, AZ Date: 07/01/25 09:47 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: tomstp Photos of a very interesting railroad/ commercial area. Thanks for taking and posting these very nice pictures.
Date: 07/01/25 10:38 Re: Drone views of Wilson Lobato yard (Brazil) Author: wabash2800 Thanks for sharing. Look at the ffront porch fo the diesel in photo six! It looks that you could have an outdoor party with a grill and picknick table on it.
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