Bryan, Butter, St. Joe

[A No.1]

Took some time this morning and ran down to Bryan this morning. Got to meet Jeff L. Also ran into Scooter B.'s son. Some good action at the Amtrak Station.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 178&nseq=2

Headed west through Edgerton and into Buttler.

Met a good dude named Matt Wright, One of Loco Engineer's friends. Matt got a good tip on some Iowa Chiacgo & Eastern power on one of the CSX K trains so we headed South to St. Joe.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 187&nseq=0


I noticed that the Sun angle this time of year is NOT GOOD. Cant wait for winter! Skiing and good sun angle.

[cbehr91]

Yeah unfortunately with the summer high sun angles you'll get awkward shadows and stuff. Tank cars especially look weird in high sun (the top and bottom are lit but the middle and trucks are shadowed). Just one of the many adventures in railfanning is working with what nature presents you.

And I've only caught ICE SD40-2s once and they were trailing. Looks like I picked the wrong day to go to Deshler (Thursday).

[A No.1]

Better shot of the ICE

[Wright]

Spent 24 hrs on the NS chicago line between 5:45pm friday to 5:45pm Sat. Here is some of the notes from the trip.

66 NS trains on the Chicago line: Here's the breakdown

6 CP trains
24 manifest
4 Amtrak
3 Coal trains
1 Loaded grain train
1 Empty rack train
27 Intermodal's

Lot's of UP and BNSF units on various trains
7 trains with non widecab leaders

Best lashups:

Intermodal wb
2695
3317

Manifest wb
8869
30xx
30xx
30xx
5823
Conrail 5318

CP run through manifest wb
5775 sd40
5872 sd40
soo 6049
9532 ac44

Manifest eb
2514
Conrail 5273
5114

Manifest wb
UP 7822
Bnsf 4721

206 intermodal eb
Bnsf 7330
Bnsf 7320


Also saw the trio of ICE units on the K train and a wb coal drag with BNSF power in St.Joe. Counted 16 trains between Lafayette and Butler with plenty of UP and Bnsf power on roaming around as well.

[lakeshoredave]

wow 66 is a good number. traffic is definitely up there.