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UER Forum > Archived US: South > The Texas Train Thread (Viewed 34087 times)
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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 280 on 11/23/2008 11:21 PM >
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I would say those are good shots. Nothing shitty about them at all.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 281 on 11/23/2008 11:39 PM >
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Gloomy skies, really every time I head down 67 it turns out to be a nasty day.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 282 on 11/24/2008 3:23 AM >
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Oh, that little yellow one is so cuuuute!
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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 283 on 11/24/2008 1:57 PM >
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Posted by SilentSearch
Oh, that little yellow one is so cuuuute!
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I can see her saying something like that.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 284 on 11/24/2008 1:58 PM >
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Posted by Bustedknuckle
Gloomy skies, really every time I head down 67 it turns out to be a nasty day.


I'd start taking a different road then.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 285 on 12/1/2008 8:47 PM >
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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 286 on 12/7/2008 5:18 AM >
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Posted by SilentSearch
Oh, that little yellow one is so cuuuute!
<thought I would beat Happydaze to the punch there>




Hey, that little yellow one IS freaking cute!!! I didn't see it until just now...




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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 287 on 12/7/2008 8:08 PM >
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Posted by Mellon_Collie
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Nice NW2 switcher. I take it you were in Saginaw?

A couple from downtown cowtown yesterday.



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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 288 on 12/7/2008 11:48 PM >
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Those are my favorite from that set you took yesterday. Heres something you don't see much anymore, in fact there are less than 100 of them left in the U.S. An unpatched (for those non-rail buffs out there that simply means it has it's original number and markings) Southern Pacific leading a rock train into an abandoned Southern Pacific rail line. Just like old times. :)

Busted, you'll see an unpatched SSW back there too. 4th in the line up.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 289 on 12/8/2008 1:55 AM >
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Posted by Bustedknuckle
Nice NW2 switcher. I take it you were in Saginaw?=


Haha, thanks BK2. I thought I had asked what kind it was, and so I was kinda bummed when no one said anything at first - 'course now I look and see that I posted the picture sans text.

And I was indeed in saginaw

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 290 on 12/8/2008 2:40 AM >
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Busted, you'll see an unpatched SSW back there too. 4th in the line up.

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Forgot to tell you, UP is painting them up quick now.

This was actually SSW 1956 until a few weeks ago.




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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 291 on 12/8/2008 2:42 AM >
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They are vanishing quickly. Especially the unpatched ones. Damn I posted a sucky little picture of the SP didn't I.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 292 on 12/8/2008 2:53 AM >
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Last count was less than 20 total unpatched units on both the Southern Pacific and the Cotton Belt.

Good old DGNO has one of the better ones.



This SSW usually runs between Davidson and Ney Yards





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<Reply # 293 on 12/8/2008 4:38 AM >
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Wow. 9373 is great looking. I haven't seen that one. Very nice unit.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 294 on 12/8/2008 5:48 AM >
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I think I saw a bunch of these when I worked in FW, just south of that 4-way junction where I30 and I35 meet - They were the original colors, but the numbers were all Red on Yellow like the rest of the UP's.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 295 on 12/8/2008 1:32 PM >
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Posted by Mellon_Collie
I think I saw a bunch of these when I worked in FW, just south of that 4-way junction where I30 and I35 meet - They were the original colors, but the numbers were all Red on Yellow like the rest of the UP's.


That 4 way junction is actually 7 active main lines. And it would go by the name Tower 55. Probably the best spot, or at least the busiest, in Texas to watch trains. Usually around 80 trains run through here a day.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 296 on 12/8/2008 2:19 PM >
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Posted by Mellon_Collie
They were the original colors, but the numbers were all Red on Yellow like the rest of the UP's.


Thats what we mean when we say patched or unpatched. Patched units are like what you describe, the numbers on the current company (U.P. in this case) color scheme painted over the originals.

Unpatched units are now owned by the new company, but they have not been altered. Those kind are becoming more and more rare.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 297 on 12/8/2008 6:14 PM >
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Patch job



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<Reply # 298 on 12/8/2008 6:44 PM >
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Patch job

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Disgusting. Thats what it is.

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Re: The Texas Train Thread
<Reply # 299 on 12/15/2008 5:03 AM >
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I finally get to add to the thread. I'd like to know more about this train. It was pulled up at the FW Stockyards, and a "conductor" said it was a private party from Grapevine. The cars looked like second-hand Amtrak, with the paint all flaking off and looking in overall bad cosmetic shape.

The other pictures of the engine were too dark, but it's engine number 2163.

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