Caught it Again

[johnjk]

Took a day off to go watch the BigBoy rolling West today. Impressive machine.

 

[S-G-R]

Thats a very impressive locomotive

 

[dlsmith]

I caught it yesterday passing through Mentone, IN about noon.

http://imgur.com/a/noiIKj0

 

[Tughill Tom]

Ouch! https://www.dailymail.com/news/arti...man-fractured-spine-nebraska-america-250.html

 

[Shawn T. W]

I'm thinking it was what all the people standing along the tracks for miles on Saturday as I drove North on I-55 North of Springfield, IL were waiting for.

I never did see it, but the tracks don't always follow the interstate, by the time I got to Bloomington there were no more people waiting ...

 

[ZTMAN]

Any one know why they would have five modern engines behind Big Boy?

 

[dlsmith]

Any one know why they would have five modern engines behind Big Boy?

Normally, they are required to have at least one diesel in the consist for braking (they don't like using the Big Boy's brakes more than they have to, they're expensive to replace.) and PTC (Positive Train Control). When it went east, it had one of the repainted SD70s in addition to the SD60 in standard Union Pacific livery, so they obviously picked up the other three units somewhere out east. My WAG is that those units were out eat being repainted and are headed back to Nebraska to UP's shops. But I could be wrong.