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The desert brush provides fall colors as UP 5403 (DPU) follows a heavy manifest train down Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff just below CP Silverwood.
This train is bound for West Colton, California.
Image captured on Oct 18th 2008, which was a beautiful autumn day.
A west-bound BNSF manifest waits at the Helena depot for a set of helpers after changing crew.
I was able to catch a helper set heading back towards Helena up at Blossberg later that day:
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BNSF 5300 leads its northbound manifest of mostly empties coming off the Bow Siding to resume the trip to the USA-Canadian Border and points north after a southbound revenue freight passed.
If there was any unusual load, this would be it. It appears to be a Tandem-tandem Western Star of sorts and a Dodge pickup. It was heading east on a CN Manifest.
I'm posting this in response to my own photo, showcasing two brand new SD70M-2's shining away.
This is the other side of new motive power acquisition.
CN 9551, a GP40-2LW is seen on a E/B manifest, travelling CN's mainline, from the same angle, at two different times in its life.
I think...
CN doesn't like to run molten Sulphur unit trains, preferring to stick a cut of 30-40 tankers on a manifest such as 346. Then again I have seen it once last year. The train was almost always parked @ CN's Fort Route yard (Winnipeg) when I railfanned there in 2003-05.
This however is either...
CN 346 and a number of other 300 series manifests have been running with DPU lately, just like CP with their potash trains. I'm not 100% sure this is 346 though, since that train showed up later, so perhaps this is 304?
Either way a very impressive consist. Not sure if this is better then a...
BNSF #3002 leads two other 4-axle power through the curve east of the East switch North Dalles to points westward in Washington state. The grain cars right behind the power were probably added to the train in Pasco to move to the Vancouver/Portland area.
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