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Water Wednesday
On this week's edition of "Water Wednesday" we see the west bound "JY Local" crossing the causeway near Sanborn North Dakota. They will take the siding in town to allow an mty and a load pass them.
Another rambling story to go with this one.
The first week of the autumn Dakota trip had a few serendipitous moments. The first was running across an RRVW train further east on the Jamestown Sub near Tower City of which I've posted one shot from Buffalo. At Wheatland the RRVW had a rolling meet with the JY local, so we knew to keep our eyes and ears open for this job if we ever returned.
Another serendipitous moment occurred two days later when we happened to return to the Jamestown Sub. While driving towards Valley City, we stumbled across this spot and remarked at how cool it would be to catch something here. But since CP was actually showing signs of life, we eventually perched ourselves up on the hill at Valley City to watch a three-way meet go down.
After wrapping up with the CP and seeing nothing on the BNSF, we figured we might as well check some signals on the Jamestown Sub before heading to Oakes. The nearest one we could easily get to was out at Sanborn. Upon our arrival, it was red, indicating an EB; not ideal but it was a train none-the-less. But almost immediately after making that observation, we heard a horn to the east and were pleasantly surprised to see the JY local. Not far behind was an mty Alma train.
These kind of moments make the hobby fun when it all works out.
Water Wednesday
On this week's edition of "Water Wednesday" we see the west bound "JY Local" crossing the causeway near Sanborn North Dakota. They will take the siding in town to allow an mty and a load pass them.
Another rambling story to go with this one.
The first week of the autumn Dakota trip had a few serendipitous moments. The first was running across an RRVW train further east on the Jamestown Sub near Tower City of which I've posted one shot from Buffalo. At Wheatland the RRVW had a rolling meet with the JY local, so we knew to keep our eyes and ears open for this job if we ever returned.
Another serendipitous moment occurred two days later when we happened to return to the Jamestown Sub. While driving towards Valley City, we stumbled across this spot and remarked at how cool it would be to catch something here. But since CP was actually showing signs of life, we eventually perched ourselves up on the hill at Valley City to watch a three-way meet go down.
After wrapping up with the CP and seeing nothing on the BNSF, we figured we might as well check some signals on the Jamestown Sub before heading to Oakes. The nearest one we could easily get to was out at Sanborn. Upon our arrival, it was red, indicating an EB; not ideal but it was a train none-the-less. But almost immediately after making that observation, we heard a horn to the east and were pleasantly surprised to see the JY local. Not far behind was an mty Alma train.
These kind of moments make the hobby fun when it all works out.