Railfanning 6-14-2019

Hi, Friends Rudy Volin and Jan Cusey, and I had an interesting, although short, day railfanning a week ago Friday.

Our first stop was Shenandoah Junction, WV and the first train was E725, an empty coal train westbound.

Shortly after E725 went west Q216, an auto rack train, came east and crossed over from track 2 to track 1.

On NS an empty stack train on the siding (at right) was passed by a coal train (above and below).

After lunch we headed over to Brunswick, MD where we caught a MARC train arriving

and then dead heading back to Washington, DC for another load of commuters.

Thanks for looking./

Railfanning Wyoming and Montana - 4B, Guernsey Area

Hi, In this, the final post on my trip to photograph UP 4014, as well as regular service in Wyoming and Montana, two additional photo locations in the Guernsey, WY area will be covered.

Just west of the Guernsey yard BNSF crosses the North Platte river (above and six below). In this photo a manifest train is westbound across the bridge.

The approaches to the bridge are on fills. Here an eastbound loaded coal train is about to cross the river.

On cloudy days it is possible to shoot from the north side of the bridge.

An empty coal train headed west (above and below)

with a single DPU. Our rented Tahoe is in the foreground of the final photo at this location (above and below).

The second location is further into Guernsey State Park where the road crosses a daylighted tunnel; now a deep cut (above and five below). First up was a westbound grain train (above and two below).

Shortly after the grain train disappeared coal loads came east (above and two below).

This was a great trip, both the company (Jim and Jay Kleeman, and Bill Kalkman) and the railfanning. Thanks for looking.

Railfanning Wyoming and Montana - 4A, Guernsey Area

Hi, The final day of the trip was spent in the vicinity of  Guernsey, WY. The photos are grouped by location, rather than chronologically, and, due to the number of photos, they are spread across two posts.

East of town Bill Kalkman knew of an S curve where we got the first train of our visit (above and below).

Fortunately the trains are moving very slowly through here as they are still within yard limits. This allowed for a second series of photos about a 1/4 mile away (above and two below).

All of the coal trains we saw had DPUs (above and below).

Later we caught an eastbound mixed manifest/double stack in the same area (above and three below).

Guernsey State Park, across the North Platte River from Guernsey provided a number of opportunities. Here is one looking toward the town and the BNSF yard (above and 3 below). Guernsey is a crew change point.

A little down the hill from the view looking toward town is a tunnel portal (above and below).

Railfanning Wyoming and Montana - 3D, Powder River Basin

Hi, We chased the last train in my previous post and

caught the DPUs again at the Edwards Road bridge where

it met a loaded UP train.

Logan Hill provided a parade of trains and a variety of angles to photograph them. Here UP empties climbed the east slope,

reached the summit and

headed down hill where they met a laoded UP train climbing the west slope (above and three below).

The road engines on the left passed the DPUs on the right.

During a pause between trains Jim Kleeman, far right, posed a group photo using our Chevy Tahoe as a prop. That's Bill Kalkman standing next to Jim, and Jim's brother Jay on the far left. I'm in the driver's seat.

The parade resumed with eastbound BNSF coal loads (above and below),

followed by westbound BNSF empties (above and below),

and UP empties (above and two below).

After checking out Bill, WY we moved to a spot just east of there where we photographed a loaded UP train and

BNSF empties.

At our final stop in the Powder River Basin we shot this empty BNSF train.

Thanks for looking.