Man what a night! On this short night Railfanning, I headed to Irvine to see this glory of a BNSF daygo. There is two reasons I did this: 1. To get an actual good shot of the Coaster with better lighting, 2. Because I didn’t know if it would end up at El Toro siding as tracks were stated to be closed (they got opened back up for daygos). Anyways, on this night, I got a heads up about this daygo coming down south with the coaster’s in the back. I spent about 5 minutes discussing with my dad on my plan, he agreed and took me to Irvine. I only had to wait a literal minute until I arrived at Irvine to see the lights of the BNSF locomotive leading down the straightaway track from Tustin. About a couple minutes later, the daygo approached and then thundered by with 4 BNSF locomotives leading. Leading was BNSF ES44AC 6297 with a neat consist trailing with the locomotives being BNSF C44-9W “H1” #967, ES44EV 5739, and standard GP60 #179. That took me by surprise to see that consist as I didn’t really get a heads up on the power. As the daygo was passing, I noticed some variety of clean autoracks. If you noticed, the clean autoracks I think were both brand new UP and brand new CSX autoracks, pretty cool. And if you also noticed this which is also pretty cool was a Grand Truck fallen flag autorack. Aside from that, I feel like the whole daygo was just autoracks and tank cars only. Anyways, as the daygo was passing, I saw the rear of the train come and in the back were 2 BNSF DPU’s being ES44DC 7011 and another ES44EV 5726, and attached to those DPU’s were the squeaky clean brand new NCTD Coaster cab car and coaches. And I’m glad I stood on the right side of the platform as on the other side, you would have noticed graffiti on the cab car. But, as on the side I was standing on, it didn’t have graffiti. The Cab Car #422 is a series IX (9 in Roman numerals) CEM Cab Car built for multiple commuter services in North America who chose to run a safer cab and coach car, and that was said it self from the companies CEM and Metrolinx I believe. Speaking of Metrolinx (not Metrolink), the 3 other coaches behind the cab car were made by Metrolinx to insure a safer and cleaner ride with newly refurbished interior from the older bombardier series. These coaches were numbered being #4201, #4206, and #4205. I will say, the CEM cab car looks amazing in Coaster phase 2 paint because a lot of Railfan’s dislike the CEM cab cars like me (besides coasters). Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this short little video and till then, I’ll see you guys down the line!!
6 фев 2024
