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 Posted - February 19 2015 : 12:49:03 AM
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Just as I was stepping out of my bud's house, "Moose," who is such a rail head that
his house borders the El Paso Plane Port Siding, my other bud, Bob, pulls up to a
dead stop under red in this triple header. Talk about a trifecta of rail heads in one
place! When Bob isn't playing with the prototypes, he models his fantasy version of
the Santa Fe as it might have become:
Bob was conducting today, he is high in seniority on the conductor board,
but low on the engineer board. Eddie Hernandez at the throttle, and as he
eased this beast to a slow stop there was not a single clank of slack or squeal
of brake. Eddie is one smooth operator! Me: I'm the shadow cast on the pavement.
Taken yesterday in El Paso.
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 12:53:29 AM
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Interesting back story on this siding, it used to be under Southern
Pacific and before that Rock Island. Moose tells me the track was
so bad, it was the scene of multiple derailments and at one point
was under a 5 MPH slow order for about 250 miles to Tucamari, NM.
The track here actually sits on a seismic fault that shifts inches
every year, pulling the track out of alignment!
When the UP bought out the SP they completely overhauled this
stretch and daily dozens of trains hurl over it safely at full speed.
UP fixed it up good and runs the blue blazes out of it. Under SP it was a two train a day affair.
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 12:55:36 AM
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Another tidbit and I will shut up: Moose grew up in this house,
and as a boy SP crews used to let him and his little brother
ride the caboose as far as Alamogordo, NM and then back again.
Those were the days!!! Moose is a rail lover through and through.
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 01:12:10 AM
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Seen a lot of these UP's passing thru Texas in July- August of 2013 on a trip to California...
Two weeks of seeing a lot of great things!
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 08:55:17 AM
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| I'm seriously jealous of Moose!
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 09:03:30 AM
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I believe the track was always SP
Its just that RI had Trackage Rights to run on it 
Cause RI main ended at Denver & Colorado Springs originally
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 09:36:11 AM
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 Very interesting, Chops. And a triple unit train. My town gets those quite a bit.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - February 19 2015 : 2:00:29 PM
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quote:
mine too but the loco is usually on the ends 
Once I caught a 15 BNSF locos here
Then there was the multiple ex-UP/ex-SP units here being transported to a loco referb place
Also saw 6 locos on BNSF all doing Elephant Style
Once in a great while I'll see the Heritage units from UP & NS here
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