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On cold December morning UP's M-PCHK rolls west across the Baker Valley of northeast Oregon. As is typical for December in the valley, the wind is blowing around 30 mph causing drifts on the highways. No wonder this location is called North Powder!
December 18th, 2007
MP 189 CN Watrous sub
12:24pm CN 357, 122 cars
CN 2447-GT 6227
107 center-beams/13 tankers/2 autoracks
When I turned on the scanner this morning, 357 was the first train I heard. Naturally I was sure I'd miss it, but a couple hours later he was still sitting in the...
BNSF Red/Silver Warbonnet #738 west, a Dash 9-44CW, leads a JB Hunt TOFC train down the #2 main at Blue Cut on the Cajon Subdivision in Cajon Pass in 2001.
New Santa Fe "Super Fleet" Dash 8-40BWs #503/#505 lead the 1-198-12 train through Blue Cut in Cajon Pass on their first trip west on October 14, 1990.
A BNSF empty coal train passes under Blue Cut Road and in what local railfans call "Blue Cut". This overpass has been in place for decades, seeing the likes of the Santa Fe Texas Chief, warbonnet PA's, F's, T&P 610 in American Freedom Train dress, bicentennial SD45-2's, SLSF 1522...
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