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Unpatched SP |
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Never would have thought this would be uncommon. |
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7/4/2005 Upload Date: 7/14/2005 9:53:57 PM |
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Morehouse, MO |
| Author: |
Zach Pumphery |
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UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2) |
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736 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southbound UP Local Train |
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On a muggy SEMO Independence Day 2005 we pace UP Train LSI55 04 rolling south on the Sikeston Industrial Lead on their way back to Poplar Bluff. The line had recently been upgraded to 40 MPH with new ties, a lot of ballast, and new tie plates were laid out, along with brand new welded rail waiting to be installed in anticipation of running upwards of 20 trains a day between Rockview Jct. near Chaffee and Dexter, essentially making a southbound main line, while the Chester Sub. would be for northbounds, avoiding a double tracking project. However, due to community and political opposition because of an overpass over US Highway 60 that nobody wanted to help UP pay for, this plan was given up on, and the line has since been filed for abandonment north (compass east) of Essex, MO. For a moment back in 2005, it was smooth sailing for a B30-7A of Mo-Pac origin, and SP 7956, an EMD GP40-2--smooth sailing at 40 MPH on jointed rail right into a severe thunderstorm. |
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7/4/2005 Upload Date: 2/17/2011 10:58:52 AM |
| Location: |
Morehouse, MO |
| Author: |
Zach Pumphery |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 215(B30-7A) |
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321 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southbound UP Local |
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Awesome Prime Manufacturing PM-920 blowing for the crossing as the local scooted past with only 7 cars. I sure miss these units. |
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7/4/2005 Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:36:22 PM |
| Location: |
Grayridge, MO |
| Author: |
Zach Pumphery |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2) |
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| Title: |
Southbound UP Local |
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We left the train heading down the Sikeston Industrial Lead and got on home (we were under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for our county, one county over from this one). They were gettin' it, this was around 4 P.M., at 5:22, they went over the detector at M.P. 157.9, running light. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/2005 Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:36:23 PM |
| Location: |
Grayridge, MO |
| Author: |
Zach Pumphery |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 215(B30-7A) SP 7956(GP40-2) |
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