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| Title: |
TXNW 121 |
| Description: |
Makin' electricity and usin' electricity. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2011 Upload Date: 1/16/2011 11:54:28 AM |
| Location: |
Sunray, TX |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
TXNW 121(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
554 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Headin' west. |
| Description: |
Texas Northwestern 121 is leaving Sunray and headin' for Eter, TX. where cars are interchanged with the BNSF on the Boise City Sub. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2011 Upload Date: 1/16/2011 11:41:05 AM |
| Location: |
Sunray, TX |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
TXNW 121(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
384 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Cascade beauty |
| Description: |
Workin' uphill toward the tunnel during a test of after-market locomotive adhesion enhancement equipment. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/2001 Upload Date: 12/31/2009 12:22:35 PM |
| Location: |
Seattle, WA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 657(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
248 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Our toys |
| Description: |
Waitin' for the next "torture" trip up to the tunnel. PTC equipped 40's. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1991 Upload Date: 12/31/2009 12:40:30 PM |
| Location: |
Seattle, WA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 687(SD40-2) KCS 692(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
899 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GOOD Stuff !! |
| Description: |
A better choice that the 5300. Just delivered to Congress Park, IL. Yd. by the IHB. 6 years later I'd be out in her territory runnin' ;er. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1972 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 2:30:01 PM |
| Location: |
Cicero, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CS 910(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1022 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lookin' Rough !! |
| Description: |
A 40 reduced to switch engine status. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/2012 Upload Date: 4/29/2013 10:43:49 AM |
| Location: |
Pueblo, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisceh |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1760(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
277 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Is that a guitar? |
| Description: |
An R&N train heads into the yard past a new/old signal. |
| Photo Date: |
2/7/2010 Upload Date: 8/30/2010 7:58:58 PM |
| Location: |
Port Clinton, PA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Yard,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RBMN 3051(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
327 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
A Coal MT. |
| Description: |
Climbin the hill into Locust Summit. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/2010 Upload Date: 3/10/2012 4:56:13 PM |
| Location: |
Locust Summit, PA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RBMN 3052(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
260 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Far from home |
| Description: |
I drove all the way from Pueblo, CO. to Mauch Chunk, PA. to photograph a UP engine !!?? |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2010 Upload Date: 9/3/2010 9:53:02 AM |
| Location: |
Jim Thorpe, PA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
RBMN 3057(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
353 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Key lime? |
| Description: |
The port harbor RR. Former UP of the same no. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2010 Upload Date: 8/30/2010 9:07:37 PM |
| Location: |
Granite City, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
RRC 3086(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
157 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A BIG Lime. |
| Description: |
The engine pulled out into the clear shortly before the sun went down. |
| Photo Date: |
8/23/2010 Upload Date: 3/7/2012 7:17:41 PM |
| Location: |
Granite City, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
RRC 3086(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
171 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Crew change time. |
| Description: |
Dakota Jct. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/2017 Upload Date: 12/31/2017 1:59:28 PM |
| Location: |
Chadron, NE |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
RCPE 3422(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
645's Wound Up !! |
| Description: |
NS freight chasin' the sun !! |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2014 Upload Date: 6/11/2014 8:28:03 PM |
| Location: |
West Lebanon, IN |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3564(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
236 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
ATSF 5067 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
7/1/1989 Upload Date: 2/12/2009 9:41:44 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
ATSF 5067(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
578 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
And a girl named SOO |
| Description: |
A KCKDEN passes over US Hy. 50 as it nears Pueblo Yd. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/2010 Upload Date: 4/30/2010 7:39:28 PM |
| Location: |
Pueblo, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5902(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
220 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Got the Day Off. |
| Description: |
5911 waits on former MILW track in Savanna Yd. |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 4/14/2012 11:55:31 AM |
| Location: |
Savanna, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5911(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
231 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
RED !! |
| Description: |
An LNG/Remote Power engine headed to the Transportatioon Test Center near Pueblo, CO. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/2017 Upload Date: 4/29/2017 7:31:20 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CP 6061(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
188 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unusual place ta meet |
| Description: |
With a 2960' siding it's easy ta see why meets are few and far between. |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1987 Upload Date: 11/17/2010 10:15:50 PM |
| Location: |
Clayton, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6361(SD40-2) BN 7112(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
620 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Concrete ties |
| Description: |
Gettin' ready for the P-811 concrete tie machine. MP 175, Cemetary Hill in Walsenburg, CO. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1992 Upload Date: 1/19/2010 11:17:05 AM |
| Location: |
Walsenburg, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6362(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
331 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Hot dang |
| Description: |
Finally got a freight that could run-around a load on the Joint Line between Sou. Jct. (Pueblo) and Walsenburg. It took a while though 'cause I didn't have a lot more HP per ton than the Houston load I was passin'. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1992 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 5:04:30 PM |
| Location: |
Cedarwood, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6363(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
564 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICE 4209 |
| Description: |
Where is Wall Drugs?? |
| Photo Date: |
2/12/2009 Upload Date: 12/29/2009 8:11:08 PM |
| Location: |
Wall, SD |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
ICE 4209(GP40-2) ICE 6453(SD40-2) DME 6363(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
593 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
South Dakota |
| Description: |
Wall, SD. |
| Photo Date: |
9/17/2009 Upload Date: 9/25/2009 4:12:36 PM |
| Location: |
Wall, SD |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
DME 6363(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
272 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
On the afternoon of July 4, 1981 a series of events coalesced to produce a deadly and dramatic wreck that has few equals. As I left Trinidad, CO. on an Amarillo coal load we began to notice the sky above Raton Mesa darkening to a degree not often seen. Conversation was that, when this storm breaks, all hell's gonna break loose with it. We got a few raindrops on the windshield, nothing more. At Trinchere, CO. a train was in the siding waiting for us. We continued on to Texline, TX. and tied up, never knowing what had occured behind us. In the morning, after having been in town for over 14 hr. with no sign of a westbound train for us I inquired about the reason(s) we had not been called. I found out, soon enough. The storm we had seen forming did indeed break loose. The deluge it produced was of epic proportions. All the ditches, arroyos and gullies, plugged with years of accumulated brush and debris, were cleared out by the enormous amount of water produced by the storm. All this material had only one place to go - - Frijole Creek. A 90 ft. plate girder bridge spanned the creek at MP 227.78, a point nearing the bottom of a small hill with a cut and a left hand curve preceeding it. It was, at that time, well past daylight so, in "dark territory", no warning was available to the crew to announce the problem ahead of them. Extra 6529 east, a unit rail train of D&RGW cars headed for Amarillo, passed through the cut, rounded the left hand curve and plunged into what was estimated to be a 20 to 40 ft. wall of water. The bridge had been torn from the concrete abutments so 6529, obeying the laws of physics, arced forward and downward from the west abutment. The SD45 struck the east abutment about 15 ft. below its top surface with the second unit and the train adding their energy to the event. The results can be clearly seen in this series of pics that show the engines resting on the creek bed, partially buried in debris and surrounded by rail cars and bent, twisted rail. The head end crew perished in the incident and traffic was delayed for nearly 4 days as a result. The RR was severly criticized for running a train during such incredibly bad weather without the benefit of a track patrol preceding it. Settlements were forthcoming but the details were never revealed. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:54:04 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) BN 6378(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
2672 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Goin' to Texas |
| Description: |
BN6383 E (South) at MP 223 |
| Photo Date: |
5/12/1995 Upload Date: 5/4/2009 10:43:29 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6383(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
296 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Almost at the TOP ! |
| Description: |
6755 is about one half mile from reaching the top of the curving, 1%+ climb outta Walsenburg, CO. with a Houston coal load. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/1982 Upload Date: 7/20/2014 6:44:46 PM |
| Location: |
Walsenburg, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6755(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
353 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Remember them? |
| Description: |
Waycar light returning to Trinidad after delivering coal MTs to the C&W Yd. at Jansen. |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/1992 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 11:20:01 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6777(SD40-2) BN 5094(C30-7) |
| Views: |
555 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Houston Coal |
| Description: |
6801 has two freight trains right on his - - - - - |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1991 Upload Date: 5/4/2009 10:45:53 AM |
| Location: |
Branson, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6801(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
713 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Da Pusher man |
| Description: |
View from the pushers goin' over the Arkansas River in Pueblo shovin' a V92, a San Antonio load. |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1980 Upload Date: 1/18/2010 11:19:45 PM |
| Location: |
Pueblo, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Bridge,InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7014(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
578 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Holdin' the main |
| Description: |
My "hotshot" standin' still waitin' for an MT. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2009 Upload Date: 11/17/2010 10:47:01 PM |
| Location: |
Grenville, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7085(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
272 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Whos first? Trinchere, CO. |
| Description: |
A coal load waits for a "streetcar" ta pass. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1987 Upload Date: 12/1/2009 5:21:23 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
BN 3150(GP50) BN 7115(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
966 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Startin' ta get crowded |
| Description: |
A three train meet at Grande sdng. I was on the 7120. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1987 Upload Date: 7/25/2010 7:36:59 PM |
| Location: |
Grande, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7120(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
450 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
View from the Penthouse |
| Description: |
I HAD ta spell it with an "E" on the orders. The view is on the 1%+ grade between Trinchere and Branson, CO. on a Houston load. |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1987 Upload Date: 11/21/2010 11:22:29 AM |
| Location: |
Trinchera, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7120(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
506 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
960 amps at 12 mph. |
| Description: |
Not exactly a "hot shot" !! |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1987 Upload Date: 1/1/2010 12:45:56 AM |
| Location: |
Branson, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7120(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
610 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Joint Line |
| Description: |
7120, with a Houston, load, on the DRGW main meetin' an MT on the C&S main. The Spanish Peaks loom in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1994 Upload Date: 1/18/2010 11:27:48 PM |
| Location: |
Walsenburg, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7120(SD40-2) BN 7873(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
463 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Leisure time. |
| Description: |
I was on a work xtra waiting for mainline traffic to get out of our way at Alps, NM. |
| Photo Date: |
12/18/1983 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 11:22:18 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7145(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
533 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Hello up there |
| Description: |
Givin' a roll-by at Branson. The motors oughtta be stinkin' by now !! Got about 12 mi. of 1% behind 'er. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1991 Upload Date: 1/24/2010 10:42:07 PM |
| Location: |
Branson, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
EMDX 9033(SD60) BN 7146(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
519 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Which way are we goin |
| Description: |
Thr curve at Oak Canyon near Folsom, NM. The rear of the train is to the right. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1988 Upload Date: 1/24/2010 9:35:14 PM |
| Location: |
Folsom, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7172(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
403 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
In the fog |
| Description: |
Early spring fog with almost no shadows. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1991 Upload Date: 3/13/2010 4:53:10 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7178(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
342 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A Roller Coaster I got PAID ta Ride !! |
| Description: |
A load undulates across the New Mexico prairie on its way to Sedan, TX. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1985 Upload Date: 5/27/2012 1:30:47 PM |
| Location: |
Clayton, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7194(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
626 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Workin real hard |
| Description: |
7196 usin' ALL 3000 hp. ta lift Houston coal up ta Southern Jct. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1993 Upload Date: 11/6/2010 10:35:35 PM |
| Location: |
Pueblo, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7196(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
238 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
My SECOND Most Favorite Seat ! |
| Description: |
Goin' up the main at Des Moines ta meet somebody. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 8/12/2012 6:23:13 PM |
| Location: |
Des Moines, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,InCab,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7228(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
600 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
High Yellow |
| Description: |
The RR spells it with an "E". Down the main for a meet. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1991 Upload Date: 7/25/2010 7:41:55 PM |
| Location: |
Trinchera, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
InCab,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7228(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
279 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
In the hole |
| Description: |
A Houston MT goin' in for a San Antonio load. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/1990 Upload Date: 1/18/2010 11:24:10 PM |
| Location: |
Branson, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7267(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
242 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Houston Coal |
| Description: |
Startin' up "Cemetery Hill". |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1991 Upload Date: 11/29/2009 8:48:28 PM |
| Location: |
Walsenburg, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7291(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
336 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BN 7811 |
| Description: |
MP 123 near Beshoar siding with Houston MT's. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/1990 Upload Date: 2/14/2009 6:22:17 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
BN 7811(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
558 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
On the move again. |
| Description: |
No. 261 leaving Alps, NM. siding. |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1995 Upload Date: 5/11/2009 8:02:33 PM |
| Location: |
Folsom, NM |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 7851(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
291 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ooopps. |
| Description: |
Minor delay at Trinidad. |
| Photo Date: |
12/13/1989 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 9:17:43 PM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Yard,Wreck,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 8051(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
769 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Between trips |
| Description: |
Interbay RH. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/2001 Upload Date: 12/31/2009 12:28:47 PM |
| Location: |
Seattle, WA |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2894(GP39M) BN 8158(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
553 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
BN 8168 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
2/11/1993 Upload Date: 2/12/2009 12:17:10 AM |
| Location: |
Jansen, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
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BN 8168(SD40-2) |
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The last of the best. |
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SD40-2 at Trinidad, CO. |
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9/10/1993 Upload Date: 5/11/2009 7:46:48 PM |
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Trinidad, CO |
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Karl Rethwisch |
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BN 8181(SD40-2) |
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