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Block signal - Coal Creek Canyon, CO1 viewsA block signal in Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado shows a westbound is about to liven up Pine Cliff - 2007signalman
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UP 6562 AC4400CW Rollinsville, Colorado2 viewsUnion Pacific coal train prepares to take the main, as an eastbound of empties clears the signal - October 2007signalman
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harsh grade - Coal Creek0 viewsThis photo illustrates the effects of heavy WB trains clawing their way up the steep grade, just outside of Denver. By the time the power for a westbound coal train reaches this crossing, the engines are at full throttle and the pressure on the railhead is making it look like the top of a heavily hammered chisel.signalman
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U.P. main - west of Denver0 viewsThis picture is looking south(Denver is to the left). This is one of the many challenging grades for loaded coal trains to climb, as they grind their way up through Coal Creek Canyonsignalman
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U.P. coal train slowly stopping on a steep grade17 viewsU.P. coal train slowly stopping on a steep grade in Coal Creek Canyon - 2008signalman
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Empty U.P. coal cars bang across the frog15 viewsEmpty U.P. coal cars bang across the frog at Rollinsville, COsignalman
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LSRC 5921 in Blackmar Siding0 viewsTaken today, 26 July 2008, while pumping air on storage empties (coal), getting ready to pull for Flintgtw5812
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loads and empties5 viewsLoaded inbound Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion coal hoppers and outbound ore hoppers mingle at the south end of Ashtabula Harbor Yard, while an empty P&LE coal drag heads south on Conrail's Youngstown Secondary.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim Baldwin
BLW 1946
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standing out in a crowd4 viewsA lone 50 foot Railbox boxcar looks out of place among a sea of coal hoppers from various roads in the coal yard at Ashtabula Harbor.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim Baldwin
BLW 1946
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CR Ashtabula OH coal dock yard0 viewsA trio of P&LE U28Bs and a lone SW1500 are seen leaving Ashtabula with a southbound empty coal movement. The yard is awash with color, as freshly painted Conrail hoppers mingle with those of various predecessor roads alongside P&LE hoppers in two different schemes.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim Baldwin
BLW 1946
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Mixed Bag5 viewsAn Eastbound, carrying coal loads that originated on the P&LE, winds its way through the scenic Canisteo River valley behind a mixed consist of locomotives in five different paint schemes. Leading the pack is ex-RDG GP39-2 #7410 in D&H patched Reading green, followed by a leased BAR GP38-2, a leased ex-Chessie GP40-2, another ex-RDG GP39-2 in a modified blue D&H scheme, and an ex-BN SD45 now owned by designated operator NYS&W. The train is bound for a generating plant in Bow NH.
Copyright © 2008 Tim Baldwin
BLW 1946
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Canadian Pacific AC4400CW #98360 viewsTrailing CP's ES44AC #8711 lead loco, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW #9836 is second in line to pull 114 empty coal gondolas northward up the Elk Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The Rocky Mountains provide a majestic background for these mighty machines.RoadMaster259
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Hill and Dale2 viewsA loaded Conrail coal train bound for Johnson City NY passes through scenic Dale NY behind a pair of CW40-8s and a single SD50. With Attica Hill behind them, the three big locomotives will have no trouble maintaining track speed as they make their way east on the ex-EL Southern Tier Line.
Photo Copyright © 2008 Tim Baldwin
BLW 1946
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Coal Dust in the wind3 views...even 100 miles from the coal mines the coal dust still billows from the hoppers... the wind howling and the train moving makes for quite a show (cough, cough) April, 2008geepster
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BNSF EB Double Stack3 viewsBNSF 4176 and 8250 east bound with a load of overseas double stacks on the TransCon at Gardener, KS on 9/21/2014gdavies
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BNSF Empty Coal Drag4 viewsBNSF 8953 and 9844 east bound with an empty KPLX (Kansas Power and Light) coal train just east of Edgerton, Kansas on 9/21/2014gdavies
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