Detroit Railfanning

[ogauge47]

Love the hi-hood, but did someone have a post-it-fit?

LOL, looks like it. This unit was being transferred from Oakwood Yard to Conrail North Yard. NS sends Conrail all the high hood units whenever possible because the NS crews hate using them

[ogauge47]

Went out for a couple hours today

CSX Q151







CP T27





NS power from Oakwood being turned on the Foreman St. wye


Same power on a westbound train



Eastbound vehicle and auto parts train





T27 at Oakwood. Last I heard there are under 5 of the candy apple SOO SD60s left.

[ogauge47]

CN 451



Amtrak 350



NS 171. This train ended up running into trouble and had to stop at CP Vinewood, blocking the CN and Conrail junctions and plugging up all the traffic on both railroads for a couple hours

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Past the Conrail tri-lights



CN 280



Conrail LV93. This one (Conrail Livernois Yard job) does not normally run up to Conrail North Yard so it was surprising to see this show up.


CN 533


NS 27V


NS 176

[ogauge47]

A leftover from Thursday- a standard cab Dash 9

[ogauge47]

CP ES44AC with empty autoracks headed for the Windsor tunnel to Canada



CN 451 with one of the best sets of power I've ever seen. CN C40-8 2437, IC SD70 1036 and CN GP40-2LW 9402








And chased them up to Hamtramck

[ogauge47]

These 4 CP and Conrail trains were lined up at Delray and came through one after the other yesterday

[ogauge47]

IC 1037 leading CN 451



Ex-CR Dash 8



HLCX SD40-2



Colorful power. CP ES44AC, UP Dash 9, CSX ES44AC and UP SD70




2 CP AC4400CWs

[ogauge47]

Westbound NS vehicle train with BNSF C44-9W 5397 and UP SD70ACe 8971


Running a little rough



NS B73 with a caboose





GTW 5857 on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton

[rogruth]

What is the tellow set of steps used for that is sitting in the ballast?

[ogauge47]

What is the tellow set of steps used for that is sitting in the ballast?

The steps are for the remote control locomotive crews. Sometimes they operate the engines on that end of the yard out of a truck (for range) and that just makes getting up to track level a little easier

[rogruth]

Interesting. See if you can get a photo of that happening.

[ogauge47]

I got a text from a friend who told me that one of the last two red SOO SD60's (6044, 6053) was leading CP 242 solo from Chicago to Canada. I was able to catch it in Romulus and later down the line in Melvindale at NS Oakwood

[rogruth]

That was a nice scheme.

The UP and BNSF units always look cleaner than lother units in your photos.
Are they or is this an illusion due to colors used? Is there a washer in the area?

[ogauge47]

That was a nice scheme.

The UP and BNSF units always look cleaner than lother units in your photos.
Are they or is this an illusion due to colors used? Is there a washer in the area?

I guess the UP yellow (and BNSF Orange to some extent) hides some of the dirt. I don't think there are any wash racks for power around here, but I could be wrong. The dirt and grime shows up real well on the CN black and CSX dark blue. Around here it mostly mud and not dust so it is darker than what the western power normally gets

[ogauge47]

Caught the CSX West Detroit Branch job, explored some downriver Detroit sights and caught some trains in Toledo, OH on 7/17/15


CSX West Detroit Branch. This line starts at CSX Oak Yard and serves several industries, including a scrap yard and a Coke bottling plant. It goes through some 'rural' crossings deep in the 'hood


Fullerton Junction, aka the "Stop Sign Junction"


Deep in the hood


CSX Y122 at Rougemere


FURX SD40-2


Three original GTW GP38-2s, 5850, 5857 and 5853 on the D&TSL in Trenton




NS 322 at Trenton with a surprise- a freshly repainted high nose SD40-2




NS 415 street running in Monroe, MI


New Crescent cab GP38-2 on the street running track shoving with a N&W caboose






CSX autorack train on the way to Ohio


Vickers Diamond in Toledo. This is the NS Chicago Line, and these 3 trains came within a 25 minute window







CSX waiting for clearance


NS Chicago Line at the Toledo Amtrak station





Ann Arbor Ottawa yard in Toledo, Oh





Freshly-painted Ann Arbor (WAMX) 3879. The Ann Arbor employees petitioned Watco to keep the DT&I orange paint job instead of the standard black/yellow Watco paint scheme so when this was repainted in June they re-did the AA orange scheme the unit received when the AA bought it from Conrail in the 80's


CSX Q131 at Ecorse Junction back in Detroit


Detroit Salt Co. switching with HLCX 0007