[Frank C.]

A quiet Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area yields a Capitol being shoved West by a Charger. At the end of my chase of this Capitol, I heard the E-OZOZ calling signals and knew they'd be by shortly...

Image 1) Capitol Corridor Train #741 sits at Martinez waiting for San Joaquin Train #713 to clear the crossovers ahead.
Image 2) Train #741 comes out of the San Pablo/Carquinez Straits RoW and into Richmond as it passes Point Pinole Regional Park.
Image 3) Train #741 clears Cedar St., in Berkeley, CA. Next stop, Berkeley Depot.
Image 4) Sitting at Berkeley Depot, Train #741 has a bus of passengers that was delayed just arriving.
Image 5) About 5 minutes later the E-OZOZ comes rolling through Berkeley on Main 1.

Regards,

-Frank C.

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[Frank C.]

Yesterday I took a quick trip to Portola because there was rumor that a SD70AH had been seen on the WP out of Winnemucca...What wasn't revealed right away was that it was a LIGHT POWER move of nearly the whole UP fleet of SD70AH's. On my way out of town, I caught this Z-train with a couple of EMDX SD70AH's in tow.

Image 1) An unknown Z-Train makes good time through Point Pinole Regional Park with two EMDX SD70AH's in tow.
Image 2) I got to Portola and got my drone in the air to catch this one...3/4 of the siding at Portola was FILLED with SD70AH's.
Image 3) Using my RR creds I managed to board some of the power while they were switching it at the West end for a photo op.
Image 4) Pulling the last cut off the siding and heading for the yard.
Image 5) A quick preview of the photo op lineup, including the lead unit, ET44AC #2572, showing the new and the NEWER.

Regards,

-Frank C.

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[Icik]

Something for inspiration ...

[wacampbell]

Icik, on 18 May 2020 - 09:45 AM, said:

Something for inspiration ...

Nice

[conductorchris]

Nice, indeed. A lot to like about the quiet little scene.
Nice lighting, nice weathering, nice vegetation, nice ground texture.
Christopher

[Railroad Librarian]

Very nice CDTX [AMTK California] set.

Are those available somewhere?

Thank you

KB

[timmuir]

Icik, on 18 May 2020 - 09:45 AM, said:

Something for inspiration ...

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Hmm...looks like the prototype to me! :thumbup3: Very nice indeed!

[conductorchris]

KB: the California Charger locomotive is available from Toronto Mainline Trains or TigerTrains. The California cars are available too, probably on trainsim.com
Christopher

[markus_GE]

Frank C., on 17 February 2020 - 08:09 PM, said:

These days every railroad EXCEPT the BNSF has something called PSR [...]

I hope you don't mind my asking as I've been away from the hobby for a few years - what is PSR?

I have found out that the abbreviation stands for Precision Scheduled Railroading, but - currently working towards my BSc degree in (intra-)logistics at university - this looks like PR speech to me... so, more precisely, what does PSR actually *do* WRT operations?

Cheers, Markus

[ebnertra000]

I think PSR systems tend to consolidate what would be several trains' worth into one larger train, which operates at a set time each day, as a result doing away with some of the various distinct train types (intermodal, manifest, even unit trains in some cases). So you might see a block of intermodal followed by a block of general freight, with a ton of coal gons after that. PSR is what killed the famed Juice Train on CSX - it now moves in regular freight as blocks of reefers.

Note that I'm probably wrong on some of this. I think there's a wiki article on it now, which would probably explain it better, and more accurately than me.

I will add that I've been seeing odd mixes of freight on BNSF of late, which makes me think that they may be taking a good look at it. Not sure if they'll bite, though