Double Double And Oddities To!

[brakie]

Here in Bucyrus things can get busy..I took these pictures Sunday and ended up playing hookie from the Bucyrus HO club.
If you look close you can see a W&LE whoa up at a absolute stop indication at COL/SAN as a NS train rattles the diamonds.

Now the Wheeling gets wheeling as the engineer puts the whip to 'em.

Then later we hear dueling horns from 2 trains!
First we see CSX rolling a cut of stone picked up at National Lime Stone at Spore heading toward Crestline.

Then a NS trains rounds the connector heading East toward Columbus.

Check those high loads of stone.

Went back Monday and caught these oddities.

Indeed..Bucyrus does have its railfan moments.

 

[steamhead]

Hey Larry...I see you're back in your "country club" setting watching those trains roll by....Keep up the good work....(Yeah...I know....It's a lot of work, but somebody's gotta do it....).

 

[brakie]

Gus,The NS has a contract with of the local contractors to cut the grass once a week..While this is a good spot to railfan it has limited photo spots due to the numerous electric and telephone poles.
I try to be creative with my photos and try not use the same spot over..I took 19 pictures Sunday..Seven was deleted because the poles "jumped" into the photos.wall1

 

[railohio]

Nice catch on the BNSF Thundercab / NS SD60 combo. And that is one ugly Wheeling unit, too!

~BS

 

[jbaakko]

[...]And that is one ugly Wheeling unit, too!

~BS

I thought it was neat!

 

[brakie]

Nice catch on the BNSF Thundercab / NS SD60 combo. And that is one ugly Wheeling unit, too!

~BS

Actually when I saw the nose stripes I thought it would be a exMP unit.

 

[jesso]

Great pictures! I love that BNSF and those CSX's and the NS's, who am I kidding, I love big power! What a great place to watch trains! The green grass and trees make for a great location.I would love to be at a crossing to hear a train going over it. Nolatron once had a video online of a coal train going over a crossing, that was a great sound.

 

[brakie]

Scott,It is a beautiful place to railfan.I am told eventually there will be railroad museum inside of the T&OC station and perhaps a caboose on display.

As RailOhio can vouch the place for crossing diamond sounds in this area has to be Marion with its double track diamonds.

 

[jesso]

That is a great looking building. I bet it will look pretty grand once it is fixed up.

 

[Triplex]

What exactly is up with the Wheeling unit? It's not their usual Rio Grande copy scheme. I'll assume it's a patch job - or is it even a W&LE at all, or just a leaser? - but from who?

 

[brakie]

What exactly is up with the Wheeling unit? It's not their usual Rio Grande copy scheme. I'll assume it's a patch job - or is it even a W&LE at all, or just a leaser? - but from who?

Its a WE unit..There was a small WE above the number.



Current Locomotives of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

Look under SD40-2.
Its a ex UP(MP) exLTEX acquired by the Wheeling in September 2007.

 

[Triplex]

Ahhhh... Ex-UP but with all the yellow painted over. It actually looks good this way.