Celebrating 5 Years of Eastern Iowa Railroading

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

UP, CRANDIC, CN 11/9/11

UP 5543 West at Beverly; stack train.

Video of UP 5543 West at Beverly with 3x1 power.

UP 8035 west; mixed freight; Beverly. 

UP 8631 west; stack; Beverly.

UP 6738 west; CWEX coal empties; Watkins

UP 6030 east; MARX coal fills; Watkins

UP 6061 east; coal fills; East of Blairstown, IA

New antennas installed along Dispatcher 19's territory.
Possibly the new narrowband system.
UPDATED 11/11/11: The above mentioned antenna is
going to be for the new PTC(Positive Train Control) and
not the narrowband as mentioned.

UP 4615 east; stacks and pigs(a.k.a. the Bird); Blairstown



UP 8193 east; mixed; Luzerne, IA



A pair of bovines graze in the grass west of Blairstown
as UP 8193 east rolls by in the distance.

UP's test truck at W. Blairstown(CPA 108).

A Southern High-Cube car in the eastbound mixed 
freight train passing Norway, IA.

A CRANDIC job pulling and cutting off cars in the
Iowa Interstate Interchange tracks near Fairfax, IA.

Job 32 heading to town with 41 cars.

UP 6068 east; KGLX/EXEX coal cars; MP 86

Video of possible defects on Main Track One at
MP 85.9

CIC 127(slug) and 121 shoving hoppers into the "P" Yard.

Job 53 returning from the CRANDIC Wilson Yard
with 30 cars for Beverly.

Wrapping up the day with the CN L563 coming up to
McLoud Place.

Lead unit was the 5738(SD75I)....

with CN 8866(SD70M-2) trailing and 37 cars returning
to Manchester.

See ya next time!!!

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