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| Title: |
Mid DPU |
| Description: |
The practice of inserting a DPU mid train seems to be common on NS and CSX; I saw them on both roads. This one is northbound, 85 cas deep, passing under the signal at South Dayton |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 6:01:13 AM |
| Location: |
Dayton, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4043(AC44C6M) |
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16 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Finally moving |
| Description: |
When I arrived at Austell, this train was waiting east of the junction of the line to Rome, and the line to Birmingham. Hes been sitting here at least two hours, and now finally gets to go, passing a local hardware store as he gets his 93 stack platforms moving west. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2018 Upload Date: 10/15/2018 6:03:35 AM |
| Location: |
Austell, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9841(C40-9W) NS 4066(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
285 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Peeking out |
| Description: |
A westbound stack train, waiting for a lot of action, peeks out from behind the Barnes Hardware store, holding back from a grade crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2018 Upload Date: 10/15/2018 6:07:51 AM |
| Location: |
Austell, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9841(C40-9W) NS 4066(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
262 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Almost |
| Description: |
The eastbound led by BNSF 3796 had a pair of GEs on the rear, one from BNSF, one from NS. The 141 car train stopped as it entered the yard, the DPU just not quite making it far enough for a decent shot. We see them from the bus turn around at the Railrunner station. |
| Photo Date: |
12/10/2023 Upload Date: 12/29/2023 5:28:40 AM |
| Location: |
Belen, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5018(C44-9W) NS 4078(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
58 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
First by |
| Description: |
I had left my relatives home near Jasper Ga in quest of some rail action. My wife and some female relatives had gone on a girls trip to Pigeon Forge, so I was free to roam. I caught a southbound on the CSX line from Knoxville along US 411, then went over to Dalton on my way to Chattanooga. I stopped for a couple hours at Dalton to catch the action. The first train was a northbound autorack move behind a single unit, though there would be a mid train DPU as well. |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2024 Upload Date: 1/8/2025 5:50:47 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4196(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
19 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming and going |
| Description: |
The second train has a rear DPU, splitting the southbound home signals |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:24:03 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4232(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
8 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meeting of the horses |
| Description: |
The DPU on the northbound passes the head end of the autorack train. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:25:04 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 7710(ES40DC) NS 4232(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
13 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU and a rodent |
| Description: |
The last rack is a CPKC painted autorack, complete with a beaver in the herald, in the company of an NS thoroughbred |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:27:23 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4248(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
17 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DPU away |
| Description: |
The DPU on the southbound gets pushing as the train gains speed passing the northbound home signal. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:28:20 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4248(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
12 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing away |
| Description: |
Actually, more like dragging at this point, since the train is heading down into the dip along Wolf Creek, and through Dorsey siding. Hell need them for the climb out, and Ill beat the train to Decatur with time to spare |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/25/2024 5:52:02 AM |
| Location: |
Gravette, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4282(AC44C6M) CP 8200(AC4400CWM) |
| Views: |
62 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DPU from the car |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train, seen from the railfan chase vehicle |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 6:17:47 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8200(AC4400CWM) NS 4282(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
71 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
261 and a DPU |
| Description: |
The DPU on the coal train passes the head end of the 261. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2024 Upload Date: 8/26/2024 6:26:22 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9379(ES44AC) NS 4282(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
67 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A long way from home, then a short trip |
| Description: |
Sometimes you think youre going to get a lot of railroad, but things dont quite work out that way. I was visiting family in Georgia, and had a couple of days while my wife and some of the gals went to Pigeon Forge, so I thought Id get up on the e Southern Rathole to check out the action. I got to Dayton Tenn, and saw that getting through town was going to be a challenge. And there was a southbound waiting to move after getting a signal. I chased to the next town, Bakewell, and to him passing the signal there. Id spend the day between here and Dayton. Saw 7 trains. The skies were gray all day, which sucked-I HATE when I go somewhere I never get to go, and the weather sucks, especially after the prediction was for 70 and sun. But, a bad day train watching..... |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:38:29 AM |
| Location: |
Bakewell, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4285(AC44C6M) NS 7691(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
23 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound stack |
| Description: |
The traffic mix here is mostly merchandise and intermodal, one of which is now rolling past the Msnly Jail Works behind a single unit. |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2024 Upload Date: 1/9/2025 5:35:21 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4332(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
1 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Caught one |
| Description: |
A trip to the Alabama Gulf coast for us involves running US 65 from Pine Bluff to Lake Village, much of which is next to UPs ex MP line from Little Rock to Alexandria LA. Once in a while we see something, as on the return trip, where we caught a southbound with NS power and 172 cars. Note the railfan chase vehicle at left. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/2023 Upload Date: 4/28/2023 5:43:31 AM |
| Location: |
Gould, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4424(AC44C6M) UP 8527(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
81 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Past the automatic |
| Description: |
I like lineside hardware, and by chance picked a spot with a signal. The train passes the automatic. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/2023 Upload Date: 4/28/2023 5:48:15 AM |
| Location: |
Gould, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4424(AC44C6M) UP 8527(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
84 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southbound |
| Description: |
Next up was this southbound NS train behind a pair of GEs |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2024 Upload Date: 1/9/2025 5:21:05 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4861(AC44C6M) NS 4447(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
7 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Back to Dayton |
| Description: |
Dayton was a good place to sit: an easi;y checked signal, and good sight lines for a southbound, and bathrooms nearby, important for an old guy on diuretics. It proved to be a fruitful day. When I got back from the first chase, this southbound was sitting at the north end of town. The signal must have just cleared, as he started moving just as I took up my position. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:43:33 AM |
| Location: |
Dayton, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4841(AC44C6M) NS 4600(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
18 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
By the signal |
| Description: |
The southbound sits at the signal in Sale Creek, waiting on a northbound |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:46:25 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4841(AC44C6M) NS 4600(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
18 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking close |
| Description: |
A tele shot of the southbound brings in the trees, which still have some lingering color at this latitude in late November |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:49:10 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4841(AC44C6M) NS 4600(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
16 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meeting one |
| Description: |
The auto rack train was holding for what turned out to be a couple of northbounds. Heres the first one, coming on hard. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:19:27 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4610(AC44C6M) NS 4795(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
17 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going away |
| Description: |
Away shot of the DPU on the southbound NS train |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2024 Upload Date: 1/9/2025 5:26:57 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4649(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
2 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing along |
| Description: |
The DPU on the NS train gives it a push south |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2024 Upload Date: 1/9/2025 5:24:05 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4649(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
4 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meeting two |
| Description: |
The second northbound rolls up on my position. Single unit trains seem to be more common here than where I live on the KCS. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/4/2025 5:22:57 AM |
| Location: |
Sale Creek, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4675(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
11 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Why the southbound was sitting |
| Description: |
The southbound was waiting on this northbound, which snuck up on me at Sale Creek, and I missed the shot there. Here it is approaching the siding at South Dayton, some color still in the trees here. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:51:31 AM |
| Location: |
Dayton, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4825(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
18 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming out |
| Description: |
There was a stand of trees just south of the south siding switch at Dayton. The northbound rolls out from the woods and past the signal. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2024 Upload Date: 1/3/2025 5:56:35 AM |
| Location: |
Dayton, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 4825(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
13 Comments: 0 |
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