Wednesday Rail Fanning

Had a good day rail fanning with the Extra Fair of the Santa Fe Historical & Modeling Society.

Started out at Winona just as the our bus pull up to Winona the Loco was coming down from the cinder pit. Picked up it other cars and off to flagstaff it went.  Then noting, we were to be there for an hour where are the trains.  The guy next to me works for the railroad and logged in to find out were all the traffic was. He found out it was all back up and in about 20min we should have 3 trains showing up. Sure enough a WB Auto rack came by and stop. 10min later a stack train ran by and cross over just as it has pass the cross over here comes an EB. Once the WB cleared the block it then left.

We left for our next stop at camp Navajo to see the switcher an the cars being stored there for the  railway museum in Williams.

Next it was off to Williams for lunch and caught a Phoenix EB.

Off to Williams Junction.  We went out the Amtrak station  and got two EB and one WB.

Again you will have to wait for the footage when I can edit it.

Tomorrow its the Grand Canyon with three photo run byes.


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Tuesdays Rail Fanning

Well today was really good caught a pair of loco switching a box car. Caught 7 trains at the station in the 2hr period that I was.

Great place to catch trains and have some food is at the Lumberyard Brewing Company on San Francisco street its right at the crossing and has an out door patio. If it is raining or other bad weather (snow) you can get a seat by the window and eat and watch trains go by.

BNSF is working on the Beaver Street crossing so the trains are slow and for a change blowing their horns.

After lunch I went over to the station and two trains Westbound and Eastbound passed  then 15min later another Westbound and Eastbound passed.

I again will have all the video of this up later when I have download and edited it.

In the late afternoon I went out on Route 66 and caught a mix bag of locos. All I had was my iphone which was out of space for any more video so all I was able to get was one last photo of it.

Off tomorrow for a Rail photo safari at darling  and Williams Junction.

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Rail Fanning Flagstaff

Yesterday as you can see by post I caught some rail traffic at the Station. I only had the one video on my iphone.  The rest are on my video camera will have to what for download and editing.

Here are some of the trains I caught.

Eastbound

Westbound

New sign on the old Freight house East of the station

Today was out at Darling. It  was slow only caught one train an Westbound Stacks train and a Eastbound Rail detection Truck.  The rest of the time is was quite

Darling only one train

 Move to East Flagstaff and caught these two units by the Purina Plant idling no crew.

Well tomorrow I hope the traffic is better.

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Westbound BNSF Double stacks & auto racks passing through FlagstaffAZ

Just uploaded this from my iPhone.  I was at the Lumberyard Brewing Company having lunch and this rolled by when I came out.  Earlier the crossing gates where acting funky and kept going off  and on. I saw a double stack stop at the crossing and have to blow its horn multiple times before creeping across the crossing.  Because of operator error, I did not get a video of that.

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Welcome intro

This is my new blog about all things video particular rail fanning in Arizona, the southwest and pacific cost.  I hope to start with the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society convention in Flagsaff,AZ.  This coming week, I will have some video highlights and photos.

I also have some very good footage for the SFRH&MS Tempe convention as will with  trip to modest yard and the verde canyon trip.

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