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Published: 2009-03-14 23:21:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 515; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 10
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JB tower on the EJ&E has been a fixture forever! It remains to be seen what will happen to it now that the Canadian National has bought the J and promises more traffic. (Sheds a tear.) I've been visiting here every couple of days to see if I could get a picture of orders being picked up or any CN power.A CN Hi-Railer crosses the diamond with the UP.
BTW... listening to the scanner today... on the UP this is Washington Street tower... so who knows.
And does everyone see the artifact of early railroading? This train order hoop still sees occasional use. In case you've never seen one here are a set of orders from the Santa Fe that I scanned awhile back
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with railroad wheels?
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No. My days working with trains are over for now.
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For some reason, the hyrailer looks like it's thinking "This is MINE."
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yup... hence the other reason for the title that I didn't mention.
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LOL I thought so.
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There are a few Vans in this country that do that, used for maintenance
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CN started running hi rails two days after the merger on the branch lines through Whiting, I havent seen any CN power this way yet, but the J's are leaving property with three on IC, and two on the WC. I heard the Missabe wants 6 SD38's up there.
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I keep heading to this crossover hoping for some CN power. So far it's only been BNSF coal transfers.
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speaking of those coal transfers, I wonder if they will keep the tradition of changing power at Eola, or leave the BNSF engine's on them?
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So far I still see BNSF power going north and UP power going south running through. The only thing I've seen J power on is mixed freights that are built in West Chicago or Eola. Then the J comes to get them with their own power... but who knows what the future holds.
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Still using that thing! Holy cow! I thought those went out of use a decade or more ago!
When I was a kid, I used to ride my back down to the yard in my hometown and pick up recently discarded train orders. Wonder what happened to them all...?
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I know it won't surprise you to hear this... but I have several hundred of them stashed away. I scanned a few and parked them in my scraps [link] but since there wasn't much interest I didn't scan any more.
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My Dad has TONS of them. He's sent me a few of them recently. I may try to scan a couple of them.
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