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| Title: |
Looking down the line |
| Description: |
A parked ethanol train sits outside Waseca, waiting for a crew. In the distance is a typical facility, a grain bin. Now that the fury has died down over ethanol, there remain quite a few plants dedicated to its production in the upper midwest, and the trains serving them are many. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2018 Upload Date: 12/13/2018 2:59:13 AM |
| Location: |
Waseca, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7439(AC45CCTE) NS 1003(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
116 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Ethanol |
| Description: |
Where I live, on the KCS, tank trains are usually oil headed south to Gulf Coast refineries. Up here in corn country, its usually ethanol. There are a lot of plants here. This train that we see in its element was on what was once the C&NW, then became the DM&E, and now CP. Need a scorecard to tell the players!! |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2018 Upload Date: 11/8/2018 5:33:59 AM |
| Location: |
Waseca, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7439(AC45CCTE) NS 1003(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
97 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Nose on |
| Description: |
An ethanol train sits in a siding near Waseca waiting on a recrew, as a sign of the reason for many of these trains existence looms in the distance. Hard to believe that 30 years ago, this line was a C&NW cast off, part of the aborning DM&E, and I was chasing ex MILW SDL 39's here. That road was acquired by CP, and now is once again in the Class I fold, with big time power again plying its rails. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2018 Upload Date: 12/13/2018 3:02:39 AM |
| Location: |
Waseca, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7439(AC45CCTE) NS 1003(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
154 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Waffles can wait |
| Description: |
We were heading from church over to Waffle House, which necessitated a trip across the tracks. I looked down the line as I usually do, to see this train approaching with a pair of NS units leading. This is somewhat unusual, and we dont see a lot of them here, so breakfast could wait. There were also a pair on the rear, along with a KCSM GE to get the 102 frac sand cars over the road. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/2017 Upload Date: 10/21/2017 4:37:56 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1035(SD70ACe) NS 9897(C40-9W) |
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155 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Just before dark |
| Description: |
I heard a horn blowing for one of the crossings south of town, and headed into town to see if there was a shot, There was just barely enough light to get this northbound empty TXUX train rolling through, a hint of sun on its flanks. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2024 Upload Date: 2/22/2024 4:22:10 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8545(SD70ACe) KCSM 4761(ES44AC) NS 1036(SD70ACe) |
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18 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Mixed bag |
| Description: |
The DPU on this southbound coal train is a mixed bag of home road, lease, and foreign power. Whatever works!! |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2018 Upload Date: 2/5/2018 3:58:29 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PRLX 215(SD75M) NS 1064(SD70ACe) KCS 4041(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
348 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Visitor from the east |
| Description: |
No, not the Magi, just an engine with a horse on it. An NS SD70ACe trails this southbound GEMX coal train, pushing a Progress Rail lease unit and a home road SD, and 115 cars south toward Shreveport. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2018 Upload Date: 2/5/2018 3:05:31 AM |
| Location: |
Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1064(SD70ACe) PRLX 215(SD75M) KCS 4041(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
438 Comments: 0 |
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