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Published: 2009-04-26 22:49:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 596; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 18
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Coal drags are known for having extremely low turn-around times, especially at the delivery site. This wasn't the case for the crew of this loonnnnng unit coal drag. BNSF had shut down the St. Joseph sub for track work, essentially marooning them at the Iatan Power Plant for a few hours. So instead of heading back north towards the Illinois coal fields, they were stuck on the spur track to the plant owned by Kansas City Power & Light less than 1/2-mile from the Missouri River and the Kansas/Missouri state line.Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
ISO 400 @ 1/640, f/6.3
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I'm sure you don't actually. It was cold, windy, and generally a bad day for railfanning, considering the lighting and circumstances that BNSF provided me with.
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I've been out rail-fanning on some pretty awful days myself, but I always seem to enjoy myself!
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I do too, but BNSF had shut down almost all of their traffic in the area that day for track work, which left me with almost nothing to shoot.
When you think about how big the St. Joseph and Emporia subs are, that's a lot of traffic to kill for one day.
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Sounds like one of those days that would be good to stand trackside with a friend while hoping you don't get skunked.
Speaking of, with the economy down the traffic has been cut way back. Ross (~rdw283 ) and myself pretty well got skunked ourselves a week ago. Only one train in nearly three hours of standing in a spot that catches *everything* that goes through the Spokane funnel from *any* direction. This down economy has managed to significantly cut the amount of traffic through here.
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It's cut the traffic everywhere. The Emporia sub is the BNSF transcon from Wellington, KS up to KCK and ends at the yard throat to Argentine. Usually it sees 50-60 trains a day on normal volumes, but the economy sucking has cut that to less than 30, and same for the UP transcon running through Topeka and Lawrence into Armourdale Yard. That one used to see upwards of 80 trains a day, and now they're down under ~45.
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It's amazing what you can do in the flatlands.
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Awesome shot!
The strongest "BIG MAC" ever built!
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Thanks! I didn't realize that BNSF #2762 in my other shot wasn't a GP30...
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