A LATE TT...(And photos)

- H made the recipe for the Venetian porkchops called braciola all'Arturo from Phil Rosenthal's cookbook that accompanied the show "Somebody feed Phil". All I can say is that my mouth is still happy, a few days later. Thanks to @frenchbulldogmama for the info about the book. And buy it if you don't own it.

- School is kicking my ass in a good way, and is making me appreciate this time off. I'm trying, ok?

- Also though: I am losing my health insurance later this month, and I have a lump above where my intestinal blockage was repaired. It's large, and it's not subtle, and to be fair...

I'm trying to use humour to not let it eat me up. I'm sure it's nothing...mostly sure.. Getting an appointment is hell, so please send good thoughts.

- the pic of me with glasses I actually don't hate, which is rare.

- The train pic was a gift as the engine right behind it is old and very few are still in rolling stock. Our local railroad is like an Easter egg for old cars and engines that are either long out of business or far away. Being "train'd" in Aberdeen has its benefits.

- Truth: Lauren Boebert being on any congressional committee about accountability will always be funny to me. And also sad.

- Also truth: Buggy is growing up way too fast.

- much love to yall, and local hummingbirds were a perk that wasn't listed when we bought the house.

Sometimes things just line up, like this BNSF train and Long's Peak.

Train Below The Mountain.

Barr Lake State Park, Brighton, Colorado. 1-5-23.

Canon 6DmII F/6.3 1/640s ISO-100 Tamron 150-600 @ 428mm.

Passing a BNSF freight train on the Empire Builder in Eastern Montana

(Sound on)

Day 17: EMD SD70ACe

Info from Wikipedia:

The SD70ACe is the successor to the SD70MAC with design changes to comply with emission standards. The engine fires with 15% lower internal pressure to improve emissions and features fewer internal components in the inverter. SD70ACe is equipped with EMD's 16-710-G3C-T2 prime mover, rated at 4,300 horsepower (3,200 kW); later Tier 3 models are rated at 4,500 horsepower (3,400 kW), and have a thermal efficiency of almost 36%. They are rated at 157,000 lbf (700 kN) continuous tractive effort (191,000 lbf (850 kN) starting). Braking effort is rated at 106,000 lbf (470 kN). Early Models featured a bad cab design which was noticed first on CSX as crews reported annoying disturbances such as prime mover noises, traction motors and more. The cab also rattle and many railroads received this defective units like, Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern. These were called "Thundercabs" because of their sound. They are more common on Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. To tell them apart, Thundercabs have their headlights on top and sideways instead of on the nose. These units are also not approved for leading trains. on BNSF, It is very rare to see these leading. On Union Pacific it is a common occurrence on intermodal trains to Chicago. In 2012, EMD also built four models known as the SD70ACe-P6. These units, unlike previous SD70ACe's, have one inverter per axle on the trucks, rather than EMD's traditional one inverter per truck design. Four of those ( EMDX 1206,1208,1209 and 1210) were sold to Canadian National Railway and renumbered to CN 8100-8103.

In 2014, BNSF Railway took delivery of 20 SD70ACe-P4 units, numbered 8500 - 8519. This model was designed with a B1-1B wheel arrangement to compete with GE's ES44C4 model, which has an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. Both wheel arrangements mean that there are only two traction motors per truck instead of three, those being the ones next to the fuel tank. Two SD70ACe-P4 demonstrators began a 5-year lease at Tacoma Rail in late 2014. On January 1, 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 4 locomotive emission regulations went into effect. EMD could not successfully modify the SD70ACe's 2-stroke 710 series prime mover to be Tier 4-compliant; thus, the Tier 3 SD70ACe was succeeded by the SD70ACe-T4 in late 2015. However, US production of the Tier 3-compliant SD70ACe continues with Tier 4 'credit units' (new Tier 3-compliant units EMD is entitled to build based on previously-earned emissions credits). Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are currently the only US roads to own Tier 4 credit unit SD70ACe's. Additionally, EMD has continued building Tier 3 SD70ACe's for Ferromex (4100-4118), Ferrosur (4119-4133), and Kansas City Southern de Mexico (4200-4224) at Bombardier Ciudad Sahagun. These locomotives are restricted to Mexico-only operation and cannot cross the US border (just as Canadian National's newest Tier 3 GE ES44AC's are restricted to Canadian use only).

In March 2016, EMD replaced the standard cast HTCR-4 trucks on NS SD70ACe 1000 with the new fabricated HTCR-6 trucks for testing. UP and BNSF plan to test the new HTCR-6 trucks on some of their SD70ACe units also. Union Pacific received 281 additional SD70ACe units, numbered 8824 - 9104, in 2014, 2016 and 2018. These are referred to as SD70AH (T4C), H for "heavy", because they are ballasted to 428,000 lb (194,138 kg) rather than 420,000 lb (190,509 kg).

In mid-2021, Yakutian Railways received two SD70ACes, designated 2TE3250 (Russian: 2ТЭ3250) and numbered 0001 and 0002. They are currently in use in Yakutia.

models and route by: Sporbust, JointedRail, Auran, and Download Station

First BIPA Trial Results in $228M Judgment for Plaintiffs

First BIPA Trial Results in $228M Judgment for Plaintiffs

Businesses defending class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) have struggled to defeat claims in recent years, as courts have rejected a succession of defenses. We have been following this issue and have previously reported on this trend, which continued last week in the first BIPA class action to go to trial. The Illinois federal jury found that BNSF Railway Co.…

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Cold as it Looks por Matthew Spika Por Flickr: BNSF 1444 and 1623 rumble north towards Northgate, SK as a ground blizzard provides a great photo op on one of the few curves on the Niobe Sub.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Diesel coming by!! :-)

Spotted bnsf locos 1667 & 1618 (both SD40-2s) double-heading a short freight train through El Mirage, Arizona. The last couple cars were empty bulkhead flatcars, which leads me to believe they were bringing an empty train back to the yard after dropping off their freight.

BNSF 7100 ES44C4 GE & 6216 ES44AC GE on Stack Train, NS Sandusky Yard, Sandusky, OH, 11/20/23.

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Got some cattle cars how to fit giraffes?

Black line building along side the Rosetta and Sioux ROW within the Smithville Park district of the city . The ROW, a freight line currently used by BNSF was used for passenger service from the beginning of it's 120 year old time span. Intercity Subway service replaced passenger service at the start of the 1940's, while the freight service lasted until BNSF tookover. #fyp #fypシ #trainz #simulator #alternative #railfan #metro #subway #city #freightline #railway #railfans_of_instagram #BNSF #trainzsimulator #gothrailfan #westside #central #WIP #nycsdarkrailfan https://www.instagram.com/p/CjnXPxCO_dA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

You are a long way from home, kid. It's kinda wet here, and the tamales are only good if you get invited to somebody's house. But you and your bright colours are always welcome. Thanks for bringing the grain to port.

I just thought of something. For your silver and black stories, how did Pilot, Pioneer, and 2903 react when Burlington Northern Santa Fe was created? I mean, their home railroads are now one and the same! (Makes one wonder how preserved trains would feel about their railroads merging out of existence. I imagine 999 has certain feelings about Penn Central and Conrail)

Oh this is a really interesting question!

I think by 1994 all the engines mentioned had come to terms with the fact that rail industry had simply changed so much in the past 60 years that it wasn't worth getting too sentimental over. Since they all were retired by the '70s, I think the more affecting change would have been the CB&Q becoming Burlington Northern.

It's important to note up-top that engines are familiar with change and know well that their entire industry is founded on shifting sand. CB&Q engines and Zephyrs in particular would know this well, and would be more sensitive to the ways in which the Q would adjust their marketing and scheduling strategies based on cost and changing customer expectations. Basically, all engines know going in that things are subject to change, sometimes at a moment's notice, and for the most part they aren't too sentimental about it. It's just the way of things, y'know?

That being said, I do think that the absorption of the Q into Burlington Northern would have been a somewhat sobering moment for Pioneer in particular, which may or may not be surprising depending on how well you know him. It's not like it ruined his day to hear the news or anything, but you have to remember that the Pioneer Zephyr defined the entire look of last third of the CB&Q's lifespan. The Zephyrs got people excited to take the train and set the tone for how every other railway in the country would market their passenger rail service for the next 30-some-odd years. Pioneer wasn't just important to the Q, he was important to the culture. But by the time 1970 rolls around, he's been out of service for a decade, and rail travel looks significantly different to what it once did. Losing the Q to consolidation is a sign of the times and a tacit remark on the then current state of rail travel.

It would have been, at the very least, the end of an era, and that in and of itself deserves a moment of recognition. It's not sad exactly, because change is inevitable, and it's not worrying exactly either, because Pioneer himself was built and born of time of uncertainty - only to eventually become a symbol that the future of travel was brighter than ever! But it is the way of things, and I think it would have at least given Pioneer some pause.

Pilot on the other hand, would have seen this one coming. After all, his retirement marked the end of the Zephyrs outside of the California Zephyr. He would have been familiar with the decline in passenger service quality from the time he was built in 1940 to the day the Zephyr service ended in 1968. Where Pioneer was only watching this change happen gradually from the outside, Pilot would have lived it.

I'm not sure how much loyalty 2903 would have felt to the culture of the AT&SF, given that he was built so late, was part of such a small class, and honestly didn't even work for that long. I do think, like most engines, he would have felt a sense of pride in his heritage and there might have even been some light ribbing in the MSI yard about how at least the Santa Fe was still going strong even as the Q had to forfeit its identity, but I don't know that the creation of BNSF would have inspired anything in him besides some slight annoyance when the teasing was turned back around on him. "Guess you're a Burlington engine now, chief!" Cue eyeroll. 2903 has never really appreciated the Burlington approach.

As for 999, oh boy lol! Don't even get her started. Her feelings on the NYC and Penn could be a whole essay unto themselves. Suffice to say that they are mixed. The best favor NYC ever did her was retire her before they became the Penn so she wouldn't have to share the name of the railway that scrapped nearly every single one of their steam engines.

Late for Halloween but introducing a special boi.

Demidicus, his human au design

He's a BNSF diesel engine owned by a wine making company, which he transports goods for. In recent years as the company grows he's been doing extra work, such as supplying building materials for new vineyards and even being rented out to other railways for goods work.

I might be able to sketch his engine version tomorrow.

And this diesel enjoys his fuel a little.. Differently. 🤫

He's a vampire

Wrong Side in Alma por Matthew Spika Por Flickr: Royal CP 7016 flies upriver headed for Northtown with an empty oil train for Alberta. It was nice to be able to shoot a CP royal scheme on the east of the Mississippi. Fun fact: I first went up on this pedestrian overpass when I was 5 years old with my dad and uncle train watching. I don't want to think of what was going by at that time 😔