There's only 5 left.

Just a quick update. Monday there were 12, today there are 5, 6 axle EMD's coupled together in the yard. Oh, and the Amtrak engine was still there also.

Lotsa power in the yard!

Today in the yard I shot 13 units that aren't normaly there! On the "old hole" was Amtrak Genesis #47. I don't know why but it may be a mechanical problem. Then on the class tracks in the yard I spotted 12 (!) EMD, SD units! They are all lease units so I think they are going to be going south on the R&S for work in Dansville but it's kinda cool seeing all that power lined up!

Today's action at 369!

As we pulled up at the yard this morning two of the Geeps were on either end of a tank car. As the short train moved west towards the switch another Geep, this one toting that sweet C&O caboose, came right up behind it and backed down to pick up some cars. After about 5 minutes they had assembled between 20 and 25 cars, tacked on the caboose and completed their air test. This train also left the yard headed west, but not for long, I'll get to that next.

The MP 15t had started to creep past the tower but held just short of coming into view from our vantage point. I pulled the van to the east end of the crew shack and saw that the switcher was moving the two Modoc Northern units that had been sitting on the "old hole". I was also surprised to see a pair of GWI Inc. Geeps in the yard! As we were shooting the MN SD's and the GWI units we heard a train on the main. I got back to the west side of the tower in time to see the caboose of the second train to leave leading it's train east towards Fairport! I like it when the yard is busy!

SD-9's and CDOT coaches

Back in May of 2007 I posted some pics of some SD

-9's in Goodman St. yard. Yesterday I saw two SD-9's in the yard that appeared to have been freshly painted for the Modoc Northern. I wonder if these units #'s 650 and 651 are the same 2 from last year? It's possible I guess, but I really don't know how long it takes to rebuild a locomotive from the ground up.

Also in the yard were a couple of Metro North cars just heading west. The CDOT coach the Governor Raymond E. Baldwin and the MN coach Mathew Vassar were being picked up off of 4 main when I pulled up. I grabbed a few shots even though the light was bad, eh, better than nothing I guess...