HD : Railfanning at Kentucky St in Memphis TN with UP 844, UP 1982, and NS 8100! скачать в хорошем качестве

HD : Railfanning at Kentucky St in Memphis TN with UP 844, UP 1982, and NS 8100!

Early on Saturday morning we headed downtown to see the "Living Legend" aka UP 844 who was in town for the grand opening of "Big River Crossing", a pedestrian/bicycle walkway built on the side of the Union Pacific Railroad Harahan bridge over the Mississippi River. For those interested the symbol for this special train was PMNME2-22. On the way there was spotted a ex-IC geep working CN's North Yard, and as we arrived at Kentucky Street a WB BNSF intermodal was just leaving "Broadway". We could hear the whistle of 844 from KY St, however it was parked over at the entrance of the UP bridge and we heard it wouldn't be moving for until 11:30 (we arrived at 9:45). Aside from an empty Scherer coal train stopped crewless on the NS West Main at Tower 17 there was nothing happening. However finally at 10:45, "we have a train!". A Westbound BNSF 'rack train slowly rolled down "Broadway" past our filming spot towards the river. BNSF Tier 4 trailing. Then a few minutes later along came UP ACNNL turning off the CN wye onto the UP main (Harahan Bridge is double tracked, so UP could run this train by while 844 was stopped on the bridge) ACNNL is a run thru manifest train to the UP built at CN's huge Harrison Yard in South Memphis. Then around 11:30 along came BNSF QAUGLAC, a WB high priority JB HUNT intermodal train, with a trio of GEVO's. Next up was 16A's power running around his train, and to the surprise of the hundreds of railfans gathered downtown to see the 844 the Nickel Plate heritage was trailing! After changing the switch the power headed back east on the BNSF Main 2 - right as a empty CN coal train came off the wye onto BNSF Main 1. Right as the DPU of the empty coal was rounding the bend at Kentucky St finally here comes the 844! After watching it pass by we headed down to Tower 17 where they had it parked on the CSX main for public viewing. The Mopac heritage, which was added to the train at Marion AR, had been washed recently and was super clean. After getting some shots at Tower 17 we headed for home, it'd been an epic morning, sorry for abrupt camera movements in some of these clips, I was taking photos with a POS camera and a few times kinda forgot about the camcorder. :P Next Saturday, pending weather, we'll be headed to Chattanooga TN to railfan NS's Debutts Yard, see the aquarium there, and hopefully get some 'fanning in at Sheffield & Decatur AL & maybe check out TVRM. So stay tuned! 0:23 - Ex-IC geep switching some cars at a small industrial yard 0:48 - BNSF intermodal stopped downtown with a T4 leading. 0:57 - Empty Scherer coal parked at Tower 17. 1:15 - WB BNSF 'rack train. Listen to the sound of the train crossing over the diamond! 2:57 - UP ACNNL slowly switches from CN to UP track, briefly stopping at the signal bridge for a crew change. 6:55 - BNSF QAUGLAC rolls by on the BNSF main. 7:52 - Lightpower move with the NS 8100! 9:33 - Empty CN coal creeps onto the BNSF main off the CN line while 16A's power heads back east. 13:35 - 844!! 16:48 - 844 at Tower 17 18:29 - Driving by NS Harris Yard on the way back home. Watch in 1080p for best viewing and enjoy! Recorded by Dan Hanna