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 Posted - May 09 2013 : 7:41:52 PM
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This rolled through Kannapolis, NC on Norfolk Southern today:
Not a single NS locomotive in sight! If I didn't know better, I'd think I was somewhere west of the Mississippi River.
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 Posted - May 09 2013 : 8:59:16 PM
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I think UP and the NS have a thing going. Microbusss lives out in Nebraska, and sees the black and white NS engines going through his area all the time, so they must have a direct east-west sharing of some sort. Interesting.
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Posted - May 09 2013 : 9:37:52 PM
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Yeah Jerry its uber true! But the NS locos are on BNSF! 
SEE??
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Cause one time I saw UP #4141 on the front of a BNSF
I think most or all NA railroads have some kind of Locomotive Sharing program going on lol
See the street behind the NS locos? Well 1.5 or 1 block is where I lives!
Most of the time I sees other locos is on mixed freights 
Edited by - microbusss on May 09 2013 9:39:29 PM
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Posted - May 09 2013 : 11:02:40 PM
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I see UP units mixed in with NS units a lot, sometimes on the point, and I've seen one BNSF unit, but seldom, if ever, have I seen only UP units on a train here.
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Posted - May 10 2013 : 02:14:44 AM
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| Norfolk Southern paint scheme look so much better than the Union Pacific one!
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Posted - May 10 2013 : 07:33:24 AM
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| Railroads have been allowing power to run through on trains since the early 1960s. I saw a BNSF unit on CSX just the other day; KCS and UP are not uncommon, and even one of the NS heritage units came through a couple months ago.
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Posted - May 12 2013 : 01:51:31 AM
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I'd simply love to see some railroad action in real 1:1 scale in New Hampshire, but there isn't a lot of it here! 
Nice detective work tho!
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Posted - May 12 2013 : 11:44:06 PM
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I'm not sure what you mean by "detective work," John, but IF you're referring to the UP consist on NS rails, I just got lucky! I was driving into town on the street that parallels the tracks and the train just happened to be there, moving slowly, waiting for a meet with an opposing train. I wasn't able to get a picture right then so I drove into town and just waited for it.
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Posted - May 13 2013 : 02:28:13 AM
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Out of the 48 continental States, there are only a handful Class 1 railroads to be named.
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Norfolk Southern
CSX
BC Rail, which is no longer in existence, the locomotives still show up in Chicago...
Up here, in British Columbia, we get Union Pacific, Soo Line, Illinois Central, BNSF, and CSX locomotives on occasion. Always CP and CN locomotives where I live.
I haven't caught NS locomotives yet.
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Posted - May 13 2013 : 05:11:15 AM
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| BCOR units were sold into lease pools, which can go anywhere depending on who's leasing them.
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Posted - May 16 2013 : 10:40:54 AM
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Glenn,
I was meaning detective work on everyone.....That has found UP and others mixed in areas where they normally would not be......Detective work......finding, or well getting pictures of this type action......
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Posted - May 16 2013 : 1:48:59 PM
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| Today the NS NKP Heritage unit is in Albany NY on CSX; it nearly went to Fort Edward on the former D&H. It's coupled with a plain NS unit and a BNSF unit. Ran through on an oil train for Port of Albany.
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Posted - May 16 2013 : 3:17:58 PM
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How about NS on UP's mainline?
Ok I was in Gothenburg,NE Doing a move job & saw it before we stopped 
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Posted - July 25 2013 : 09:49:02 AM
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More North Carolina railroading:
Unspoken expectations are premeditated failures.
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Posted - July 25 2013 : 10:25:38 AM
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Where is that, NCS?
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Posted - July 25 2013 : 12:14:54 PM
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quote:Where is that, NCS?
Originally posted by gmoney - July 25 2013 : 10:25:38 AM
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Apex, NC. CSX tracks. It's at the old interchange with Seaboard Coast line and Durham&Southern R.R.
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Posted - July 25 2013 : 1:43:46 PM
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zebrails: you forgot about KCS & Ferromex
Yes I seen them up here in Nebraska a few times
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Posted - July 25 2013 : 3:37:42 PM
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quote:More North Carolina railroading:
Originally posted by NC shortlines - July 25 2013 : 09:49:02 AM
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If I'm not mistaken, that's sitting on CSX tracks right then and there! BUT, that's an interesting GP60 to say the least!
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Posted - August 02 2013 : 2:40:08 PM
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| Sometimes they just use what's on hand and ready to go, many years ago one cold winter night a yard local near me used a UP SD40-2 for power as it was up and running. Normally they'd have had one or two B23-7s or GP38s.
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