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Between Sparks and Fernley NV there are numerous places on east IH80 to pull over and view the tracks. The Truckee River is just beyond the tree line. And Amtrak Train 6, The California Zephyr should arrive at Reno NV on time.
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East of Sparks, at Painted Rock NV a local heads east towards Fernley and Fallow NM. There are some through freights that will come this way, but they are hours away. That guardrail on the right is IH80 a lonely road to Salt Lake City.
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Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Flume Co. locomotive “Glenbrook” steams past a donated house that may have been a railroad superintendents’ home. Lavishly painted, “Glenbrook” made a fine sight on a summer afternoon.
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“Glenbrook” was built for the Carson & Tahoe Lumber and Flume Company by Baldwin in 1875. The wood burning 2-6-0 simmers next to her companion, V&T #25 at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City NV. Now fully restored, “Glenbrook” operates on special occasions at the museum.
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Edwards Motor Car Company built Car #401 for the Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend railroad in 1926. It was sold to the T,C &GB for $10,465 dollars by the company, FOB Sanford NC. For 21 years, Car 401 ran between the copper mine at Ajo AZ and Gila Bend. The car was retired in the 1950’s.
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McKeen Motor Car # 22 rest outside of the house at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City Nevada. Built in 1910 by the McKeen Motor Car Company of Omaha NE, it is some 70 feet in length and has space for packages and express in addition to passengers. Car 22 is the only operable McKeen car in existence.
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Locomotive # 25 pauses at the water tank near the station on the Nevada State RR Museum. The was a four day “Rail Camp” in progress, and the eight students learned to perform a variety of railroad jobs. In addition to the hot and heavy work involved with this 1905 locomotive, they also got to operate two motor cars and the narrow guage wood burner “Glenbrook”.
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Running late, the CZ comes through the town of Mogul NV. Not much to remark at this grade crossing.
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Norm has been traveling in the Nevada area and has sent a number of pics during his adventures. This message thread will be in essence a trip report updated as his photos arrive. If you want to submit a collection of photos from a specific trip you can email them with content describing the images to photos@trainnew

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Can someone opine on the that the reason trains are clogged is that with PSR, the longer trains are causing longer transit times and crews are not able to complete the planned runs in time to return with sufficient rest. There by causing the RR to institute time management policies will eventually end in a more sever labor shortage. And the Unions asking their members to strike as it will ha
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We have created a repository for the 'trainnews' photos that accompany the weekly postings. This repository can be found at 74.95.12.170/photos or by clicking the link below. Trainnews photos Note, we are working backwards from volume 15 issue 15 to populate the gallery, so it will take some time to fill all the photos into the system.
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Does it strike anyone else that since NWP has stopped running freight thinks have quieted down. We no longer hear that the yard is going to blow up, or that freight trains have to go, etc.
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