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  1. Gold Bar Turn

    Gold Bar Turn

    The Gold Bar Turn a local out of Everett Wa. stops by Edmonds Wa. to pick up a couple of cars what nice power a Santa Fe SD40-2 and a SD70 MAC.
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    • bar gold turn
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  2. UP Oly Turn

    UP Oly Turn

    In May 1986 northbound Amtrak 1796 passes the UP Oly Turn at Wabash.
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    • 2022 amtrak oly turn
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    • Category: Western United States
  3. M.P.-18 Edmonds Wa.

    M.P.-18 Edmonds Wa.

    The Gold Bar turn heading back north after a run down to Richmond Beach to drop off asphalt tank cars and drop off a covered hopper car of portland cement for the Brightwater tunnel project pulled by some old geep 30s/geep39s also waiting on main two is the roadrailer pulling some slot cars and...
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    • 30s bar geep gold turn
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    • Category: Western United States
  4. Spud Turn

    Spud Turn

    On Friday 9-3-2010, the Spud Turn switches cars in Quincy, WA. It was nice to see the old Pacific Pride unit out working.
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    • 2075 quincy spud turn
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    • Category: Western United States
  5. We're Here!

    We're Here!

    HLCX 3815 on the point of the PSAP Shelton Turn approaches the Simpson Timber Mill leading four units and a string of empty wood product cars.The extra power will be needed for the return trip to Elma,WA with a heavy load including loaded wood product cars and loaded junk cars from the...
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    • elma psap shelton turn wa
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    • Category: Western United States
  6. CN 402 = Big power

    CN 402 = Big power

    June 13th, 2008 From MP 189.40 Watrous sub 12:25pm CN 402, 88 cars CN 2307-8008-5610-5257-2616-5511 ES44DC/SD70M-2/SD70I/SD40-2W/Dash 9-44CW/SD60F Except for the SD50F, Dash 8-40CM & GP40-2LW, all of whom have fallen out of favour, nearly 35 years of CN mainline units are present...
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    • 2307 2616 402 5257 5511 5610 8008 9-44cw cn dash es44dc mainline riverview road saskatoon sd40-2w sd60f sd70i sd70m-2 transcon turn watrous wayfreight
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    • Category: Canada
  7. CN 4765 GP38-2W

    CN 4765 GP38-2W

    Not long ago 4765 looked like 4784 behind him. Interestingly hes missing the CN sub-lettering & web address. Ive seen an ES44DC missing the web address as well looks like CN puts them in service ASAP, with the decaling arriving later.
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    • 4765 4784 582 cn fresh gp38-2w mainline paint roadswitcher transcon turn watrous wayfreight
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Canadian National
  8. The Watrous Turn

    The Watrous Turn

    CN 560 departs to work the Poatsh mines with GP38 units 4782, 4798, and 4703. 3 Geeps is alot for 23 cars, so they will probably be lifting alot of Potash. But before they can get underway, they will have to hold for the westbound CN 303. The paint on 4782 looks to be in better condition then...
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    • 560 cn potash turn watrous
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    • Category: Canada
  9. CN 4796

    CN 4796

    Freshly painted GP38-2W leads a trio of GP38-2's home on a wayfreight. Don't be fooled by the rosy picture, I've cropped out 4703's primer color cab for a reason. 4:09pm CN 520 (W/B) 1 minute CN 4796-4782-4703 9 hoppers/11 tankers/34 hoppers
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    • 4703 4782 4796 520 cn fresh gp38-2 gp38-2w local mainline paint saskatoon sub transcon turn watrous wayfreight zebra
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    • Category: Canadian National
  10. Them bones

    Them bones

    I couldn't come up with a name for this shot, so just went by the song I was listening. The name fits well though: It seems like your stereotypical Prarie shot, something that could have been taken 20 years ago - A pair of SD40-2's leading a manifest. These engines however have been...
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    • 5912 5927 cp floral line local milk multimark n41 north pnl prarie run saskatoon sd40-2 turn wayfreight
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    • Category: Canada
  11. P&W #2308 heading back through the fields..

    P&W #2308 heading back through the fields..

    Portland & Western #2308 heading east on it's return trip from Clatskanie with 4 loads of lumber it picked up from a Weyerhaeuser Lumber industry. It picked up a BNSF centerbeam car with large dimensional lumber (12X12X36 -That is what a wrapper said.)...
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    • #2308 & astoria centerbeams clatskanie district job pnwr portland turn wauna western
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    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  12. PNWR #3604

    PNWR #3604

    Here is the trailing locomotive on the Harbor Turn like the #2308.
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    • #3604 & banks central corp export harbor logs oregon pacific pnwr turn wilamette
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    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  13. PNWR #2308 at Banks, Oregon

    PNWR #2308 at Banks, Oregon

    PNWR #2308 now leads the Harbor Turn after running around it's train at Banks, Ore. The Harbor is bringing export logs to Rainier, Ore from the Central Oregon & Pacific. He has 6 loaded centerbeams for BNSF at Willbridge yard. The former Wilamette & Pacific had intentions of...
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    • #2308 & banks central corp export harbor logs oregon pacific pnwr turn wilamette
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    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  14. The Old Mill

    The Old Mill

    The abandoned Great Western sugar mill poses as a backdrop while the Longmont Turn pulls a string of cars delivered by the Great Western Ry. Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 85mm 1/320 sec @ f/11 ISO 200
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    • 9437 bnsf great longmont turn western
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    • Category: Western United States
  15. CR Turn

    CR Turn

    The daily Cedar Rapids Turn to Manchester finds the SD40-2 IC 6100 making a turn over East Main Street in Central City, IA. Power: SD40-2 IC 6100, GTW GP38-2 5812.
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    • 5812 6100 cedar gtw ic iowa manchester rapids turn
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    • Category: Canada
  16. BNSF Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    BNSF Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    Here is the engineer coming out of the BNSF #2265 which he could not engine to cooperate with the lead unit. It took him with the ex-SF unit about 20 minutes for it to show up. In the background, you can see the old depot in Bucoda, Washington.. Also, you can see that BNSF is storing empty...
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    • at bnsf bucoda burlington centralia fe northern santa tacoma turn washington
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    • Category: Western United States
  17. BNSF's Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    BNSF's Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    Here is BNSF #2230 on the Centralia-Tacoma Turn just getting under way from Centralia Yard. The BNSF #2265 isn't helping pull it's fair weight. The 2230 is doing all the work as it is being passed northbound by a loaded grain train.
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    • bnsf's centralia-tacoma turn
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    • Category: Western United States
  18. Alley cat

    Alley cat

    A relatively old ES44AC (#7/160 on the CPR) is running long-hood forward through the shops before being wyed. Note the giant hangar in the background - the IMS forklift is normally stored there. You can see the top of the forklift itself right next to the building! Later that day, he, CP...
    • Romet
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    • 8706 cp es44ac forklift forward hangar hood lhf long saskatoon sutherland turn turned wye wyed
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    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  19. On the wye

    On the wye

    Sutherland shops are equipped with a wye, which would be at most 15" if modeled in HO scale. Neitherless the less CP turns various unit sets there, from 3SD40-2's to 2AC4400CW's, a single ES44AC in this case. The key is doing it slowly, as the unit leans into the curve. The only consist...
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    • 15" 8761 cp es44ac saskatoon spur sutherland tight turn turned wye wyed
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    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  20. Welcome home

    Welcome home

    Two GP38-2's return to the shops after bringing a 15 car cement train into town. Such lash-ups are very common in the area, working on a numnber of wayfreights and turns. At any given time there's at least 10 GP38-2's in the region (Wilkie-Sutherland-Lanigan corridor).
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    • 3050 3093 cement cp gp38-2 local multimark saskatoon sutherland turn
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Canadian Pacific


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