It was a nice change to catch a Dash 9 today. This one is coming out of a meet at Gibb, Missouri.
With the sounds of dynamic breaks howling, a heavy westbound manifest slowly exits Crozier Canyon, passing between the Music Mountain Range and a local Valentine resident's property.
Westbound stack train 217 passes through Matewan, as seen from through the door of the Flood Wall, with a colorful set of power.
The second unit is BNSF 815 still in AT&SF colors. The Lombard St. Bridge is at the top. This big cut is in a residential neighborhood.
Three units, all of different colors lead a loaded autotrain down the 3%, as another Westbound comes down the North track.
An well powered Denver-Stockton manifest heads west with 18 cars just west of Riverton, Utah.
A very lucky catch these days. There aren't too many unpatched Warbonnets left--let alone on the east coast. Canon EOS Digital Rebel w/ 18-55mm lens. 1/400 sec @ F/6.3.
Three Dash9s and an NS Dash9 nab three cars then zip out of the Twin Cities.
