BNSF ES44DC #7600 West with a Manifest

[moonwalker5058]

Love those GEVO K5HL's. Really cool!

[Sniper12890]

I saw the=at unit on a Z train in TX

[JAREDAMTRAK]

That is a ES44DC and the side looks like a C44-9W

[trainzrok]

That is one hell of K5H(L)

[railfanner91019]

Actually its a K5HLL

[hepvaya]

I've seen bad track like that at Flagstaff, AZ and Peach Springs, AZ. I like the trains but I hate to be around when a disaster happens, and it will eventually.

[BNSFmow]

well if the section does not want to mess with it, just make a friendly call on over to the FRA, ask to speak with the last month inspector, that should get the ball rolling

[eccentriceric]

its a low traffic line so they don't care to spend as much money to fix it. They let things get pretty bad at Emporia KS, even though it gets 60-80 trains a day, before they will fix something. Out in the country west of Emporia, I seen a mixed freight go 50-60 mph on a bad section and the cars bounced and the knuckles darn near broke or came apart on a few cars. They were making a terrible banging noise. A month later someone on a train finally turned it in so they fixed it the next day.

[eccentriceric]

Though within the same week or month a car did jump the track a few miles west. Only one axle thank god.

[meyer8400]

On the Valley Sub south of Redding this spot is a 60 zone, and the hotshots will do even faster. There is this extremely rough crossing as soft as this on one side, and trains were doing 55 over it for a week before they put in a 35 slow order and haven't been fixed yet.

[BoxcarFrank]

I think I've seen 7600

[mafarnz]

Yeah, that definitely needs new ties and ballast. You can see all the mud on the rails. Dang, look at that train bounce!

[SPGP60]

hey isnt 7600 BNSF's first GEVO??

[Treyvs]

No, because if it was the first one, than the GEVO behind it would be cleaner..and 7600 doesnt have a speck of dust on here

[KRG2645]

Cool GEVO!

[trains91]

nice wierd horn

[NSNCRailfan]

Sweet!! Nice New GEVO in the lead!! I'd say we're both responsiable railfans by report stuff to the yard offices, like me reporting a broken gate to the NS Charlotte Tower.

I think that district should order a HERZOG Train or something, redo the track and add new ballast to it.

[Treyvs]

Well I think its the Ties....although new ballast will prolly help.

[NSNCRailfan]

Yeah, new ballast and ties can help. Unless the district gets it's act together with track maintenance.

[bigcd02]

nice vid