Skyler's first day of Summer beak meant that we headed out to watch some more trains on the mainline. This time, we were a little bit further East, 5600 West to be exact. This is a nice location because it's right next to the intermodal yard that Union Pacific uses to stage shipping containers and stack trains.
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| Headlights! |
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| Lots of power. |
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| Brand new Tier 4 emissions unit on the rear. |
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| Switching back into the intermodal yard. |
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| They must have been building quite a train with this much power. |
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| Green for a Westbound on track #2! |
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| Stack train! |
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| FRED device on the rear. |
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| Eastbound! |
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| Ballast train. Think how heavy a train full of gravel is, each car is 201,000 pounds loaded! |
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| Uh oh, a bit of a mishap on the tail end car. |
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| Must have derailed at one point. FRED device on the rear. I can remember when the railroads had a caboose on the rear of the trains instead of the FRED. :( |
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