Recent content by Inkyrail

Josh- Glad you found it! Hopefully there are othe rail employees on here who would like to share their stories on this thread. viperman- I'm sure it was empty- since then there was an occasion where another crew had to stop, but they already pulled the pin on a two loaded hopper car cut and it...

I got a couple more stories- this time from the yard. The first one- I was on an all purpose job and we were yarding a train whose crew died. The engineer wasn't qualified on DPUs so we left the DPUs where they were with the intention of coming back later for them. We yarded the train. cut off...

:eek:Wow. That must have been fun....

Man, that's insane, I think the jam at Niland lasted all of a half an hour, maybe 45 min. About the stories, it will be a little bit... I have to drum up the suspense.:D Plus, I have to think of another good story...:oops:

Alright Dean, I finally got it! *drumroll please THE REAL UPY 833! Sorry for the composure of the first shot- it was kind of taken on the fly...:oops: Anyway I was at work and one of the hump consists was UPY 833, 834, and 835. I hope you like them!

I figured you would like them! Fun times- I can't wait until they let me get on the road again!

OK I thought of another one. I got caught in a big traffic jam at Niland, California, which is about 3/4 if the way to Yuma from West Colton. The track at Niland looks like the diagram below. Once again I was returning from Yuma. We got put in the north siding (top of diagram) as the MECWC, a...

Some of you guys have told me you wanted to hear some stories from the railroad. I have been working the yard since I've been marked up as an official employee, which isn't very interesting, but I have been thinking of stories from my student trips. The one I can remember most of is my last...

Yup. 6936 was just on an MNPWC earlier this month! Here is some good info on the DD35's and Centennials- www.utahrails.net/articles/up-dd35.php www.utahrails.net/articles/up-dda40x.php

Oh! Ok...:oops:

Sure I am! I have almost three hundred posts there and I post there more than anywhere else!

I am currently assigned to the yard, but I am sure I can dig up something from my student trips! I'll post it in a new thread after I think about a good one.

Oh Lord, this pic again.:rolleyes: First of all, I was working the job that moved that train. The yardmaster wanted us to move the train, an MWCRV, from the departure yard to the bypass track so he could get another train built. I was at the bypass track switch at the time the photo was taken-...

They already made an SD40M-2- rebuilt SD40s and SD45s by Morrison-Knudsen for Southern Pacific.

Ralph, not many of the employees (as far as I know- I could be wrong) are not railfans, though there are a few. Deano, I'm way out on the UP Alhambra Sub, near LA, plus I am a fairly new guy. I like UP because of our rememberance of heritage. Look at the Heritage units, the steam locomotives...