Fall in Battle Creek, Michigan
It is October 22, 2006 and it is already quite cold and wet. Today I want to spend again one railfanning day in Battle
Creek, Michigan. Already dressed in heavy winter wear I am ignoring the ugly weather with temperatures in the low 30s
and drissl from the side.
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Sunday quietness at Kellogs. DRSX 1005, an old NW2 registered for DOT Rail Service Inc.
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View to Emmet Street Yard. The sand piles documenting heavy trains and slippery rails.
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GT 4915, a GP38-2, comes by to collect the caboose. Today is not yard men's vavorite weather.
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An Intermodal awaits highball at the tank station.
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Full throttle for both engines. CN 2550 is a Dash9-44CWL followed by one of the old reliable SD40-2 numbered UP 3246.
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Framed in autumn colours GT 5933 und IC 3108, both SD40-2, lead 8 autoracks southwards into the Emmet Yard.
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A more in the north there is double track up to Lansing. The only train of this afternoon roars through the fall country.
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CN 5517 is a SD60F and BNSF 4369 one C44-9W.
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After two long and cold hours of waiting I am following this train to Battle Creek.
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Back at the Emmett Yard I can spot two brandnew SD70ACe intgrated dead into a freight train. The engines come from
the EMD plant in London, Ontario and will be shipped by rail to the new owner BNSF.
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My final shot for this day are these two C41-8W working for Union Pacific on a mixed train heading eastwards. |