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Jul 01, 2010 16:05 | #1

Cleaning the mainline ballast and using some of it for the base of a new siding being built around MP 167 on the Austin Subdivision:

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Jul 01, 2010 17:05 | #2

Ugh you mean Maintenance in the way

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Jul 01, 2010 18:08 | #3

bizkit642 wrote in post #10462379

Ugh you mean Maintenance in the way

I work for UP on the transportation side

I can understand that. The dispatcher never sound very happy when he's talking to these guys.

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Jul 01, 2010 19:59 | #4

Amazing how automated it's all become...

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Jul 01, 2010 21:44 | #5

Cool shots of a necessary evil. I never can seem to track them down when they are in action around here.

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Jul 01, 2010 22:43 | #6

Love the caboose in #1!

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Jul 01, 2010 22:49 | #7

Sort of a Caboose for Cabooses...!

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Jul 02, 2010 08:10 | #8

Good point!

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Jul 02, 2010 17:06 | #9

That looks a beast of a machine!

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