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Here is a Red-Headed Woodpecker making sure I stop, look and listen at the railroad crossing on the ex-MOP now UP Weeping Water line. Looks like a train may have come by earlier this week, but the rails are just a bit rusty after the rain.
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Here is a Red-Headed Woodpecker making sure I stop, look and listen at the railroad crossing on the ex-MOP now UP Weeping Water line. Looks like a train may have come by earlier this week, but the rails are just a bit rusty after the rain.
"Man hit by train while photographing bird. He said standing on the tracks was the best angle for the photo"
Couple of different things today. The Iowa Interstate switching duties were being accomplished using 2 southern belles. And the 1943 was sitting, with prime mover shut off, under the Ave G bridge south of the Heritage shops in Council Bluffs.
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Southern Belles for Bill. Even the 4774.
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Two thumbs up!
Waverly NE yesterday. Lots of trains, mostly piling up at Waverly waiting to go into Lincoln. They didn't wait too long. The 8485 is sitting on the Omaha Line waiting to get through Ashland, when it does I'm sure it will stop at Waverly too.
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Something a little different today. GO Transit on an eastbound UP train. Taken near the Durham Museum (ex-Union Station). I know I should have straightened them but .....The first is long telephoto shot of the Missouri River bridge through the heat waves. Kinda Artsy.
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Just noticed the NS loco is the same number as the Big Boy in the park that overlooks the river.
Wow, great catch! I've posted some shots on the Eastern Board as that's where I recently visited.
Colfax Iowa. Saturday August 18, 2018 Here is 6988 speeding back to Newton, Iowa after a day of running trips between Mitchelville and Altoona, Iowa. Same today if you want to see steam
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I have been to Colfax, CA. (former SP) and Colfax, WA. (former UP). I did not know there is a Colfax, IA.
Sounds like a theme for a collection of railroad photos.
Rick and went to Luverne MN to visit the Ellis and Eastern or the Minnesota Southern or the MSWY. Two nice old Geeps, a 7 and a 9, run from Luverne to Worthington moving tank cars. Other than the irritating air tank safety valve the sound of the 567s is super. 10 mile an hour track but a few hills as the track meanders through southern Minnesota. We caught them outside of Worthington where they have trackage rights on the UP, ex CMStP&O, to set out and pickup and followed them back to Luverne. Weather was bit gray and windy, but to see and hear the 1st generation locos was a pleasure.
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We then went to Sioux Falls to see the Big Sioux River falls and our luck was good today as a BNSF train crossed the river while we photoged the falls. On the way out of town we captured 4 of Ellis and Eastern Red locos. 7, 17, 37, and 47.
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2 pics of the falls one fast shutter, one slow. Hopefully Rick will throw in a some images too.
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Looks like you had a good trip. Those branchline old Geeps and switchers are really neat. Nice to see some small power for a change.
Looking at the track, I can see why the Minnesota Southern has a 10mph speed limit.
The geeps went to the north end of Worthington to setout the cars they brought from Luverne.
At Agate, the UP/MSWY Junction the train turns west and into the “sun” closest to bright we got all day.
And then at Knofl Road 1365 sneaks out of the trees and around the curve.
The elevator at Magnolia MN.
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Other than a BNSF train off in the distance on the way back, the day was all 1st and 2nd generation locomotives.
Here is a video of the pair crossing the Rock River Westbound at Luverne, MN
Taken with my iPad
The video is too big to upload here, evidently, so here is a link to youtubeee where I put it.
Yep. Lincoln line on the CNW was a branch and there was another branch from Fremont that ran to Superior, NE. Those two are gone. I drove a bit around Yutan and viewed the UP line that crosses the Platte river south of Valley. It really is amazing that 4-12-2s and U50s ran on that line. SD-40s ply the line now. Don't if they run down to Lincoln every other day or what. Many trains on the BNSF Sioux City Line through Yutan. Even saw an container train through there a couple of weeks ago.
Peanut, just curious why you copied part of a post from 2015 and pasted it here? I thought it sounded familiar.
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