Union Pacific Freight Train CTH A

[NateTheGreatPilot]

There were 63 cars, counting the engines....if anybody was counting...

[tigerstorm24]

damn thats thats a very fast train

[pimplicious91]

did u notice all the missouri pacific cars

[ahouston30]

Damn that train was booking

[bwitz72]

Haul that freight down the line!!!

[sansitwins]

"Bimm-bimm-bimm" - and "TROET-TROET" from the busy Diesel... vry good!

[kidel3]

you like trains , brenton? xD

[Gangsterbowser]

very mixed!

[andybowe]

whats the train speed on the Milw Sub? and does it still see freight traffic?

[Brenton81]

I think it's 50 mph, all continuous welded rail with ABS. I live less than a mile away from the Milwaukee Subdivision, near Waxdale. There's still Twin Cities traffic, the Z-Train, traffic for some local stuff in the Milwaukee area and Jones Island. The Edgewater Plant coal traffic and mixed freight for Sheboygan also travel the Milwaukee Sub. The Kenosha Sub, a few miles east, between Cudahy and Kenosha doesn't see a whole lot of traffic.

[moon47mars]

SD40-2s

[CNW4404]

Nice! I love those old SD40-2s...miss 'em too!

[owlking149]

Sweet, 60 cars. I counted. Thanx fur sharin'!

[UP1340]

That signal either needs to be moved closer to the road or replaced by signals with Safetran T3 E-Bells with gates on it.

[Brenton81]

They actually just replaced them with gated signals a few weeks ago.

[XXXHOTTITS]

fast train.

lol, nicee train horn also.

that looked like some awsome freight graffiti.

next time u should try and maybe capture some of the good graffiti shots.

[maxcady69]

lol nice horn

[quickman55]

Damn. He's fast! Why was the signal so far away from the side of the road?

[Brenton81]

I'm not really sure why the signals are placed like that. The other signal is away from the road as well. If I had to guess, I would say it's to accomodate some of the large (wide) farm machinery that travels on the roads in the area.

[trainboi21]

fuck, hes moving freakin' fast !

[csxrailfan2]

I agree!

[freshmansuck17]

i thought i recognized that crossing. i live west of there in burlington

[peepantsfunny]

eather a Safetran of RACO bell

[UP1340]

Safetran M-Bell

[WrongRoadRailways]

No shit, sherlock

[Doobie1975]

It's pretty rare to see a railroad crossing without the gates on the Class 1 railroad lines.

[charlieb640]

Not at all. Far more than 1/2 of the crossings on Class I roads are not gated

[Doobie1975]

You're kidding, I personally believe all of the Class 1 roads should be gated

[charlieb640]

Excellent.

Why?

Who do you suggest funds this multi-billion dollar investment.

You want to gate rural crossings that handle 40 automobiles a day at the cost of about $200k per crossing. And there's thousands and thousands of them. Just to protect a few complete idiots who ignore stop signs?

Why not spend that money feeding the poor and sheltering the homeless. It would save far more lives.

Not me man. No way my taxpayer dollar goes to gate those crossings.

[Trainman11185]

its probably a western cullen hayes bell, sounds pretty good too

[Brenton81]

It's a Safetran.

[BRYLON123456789]

Don't look like Safetrann. Those have a sloped back and have a double ring when the hammer hits the gong(It's dropped on the bottom)

[Brenton81]

That would be a Safetran hybrid bell. This is a standard mechanical one.

[CoastStarlight11]

nice

[skyman2002]

How many trains go by this spot a day? Thank you.

[Brenton81]

Probably around 10, give or take.

[BRYLON123456789]

Ok what kinda bell?

[Brenton81]

Safetran, I believe.