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GMTX 728 |
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TJ and I hunkered down in Milton for the next spot. We waited and waited and waited, and for some reason the train never seemed to show up. My friend Chris showed up at the scene after giving him some info about today and we continued to wait a little longer before we decided to cut back into Cambridge City to see what the problem was. We saw that the train was stopped across Hunnicut Road, so we went down to the crossing and the conductor was sitting at the crossing. He said that the two engines were experiencing too much wheel slip making the grade into Milton, so an engine was being brought out of the yard in Connersville to come assist them. We began to follow the tracks south and barely made it south of Milton before we saw another headlight. We parked at Nickel Plate Road (how ironic), and after a couple minutes engineer Branden Bailey was bringing the green GATX SW8 solo to rescue the train. |
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9/21/2020 Upload Date: 9/22/2021 6:24:11 PM |
| Location: |
Milton, IN |
| Author: |
Jacob Werling |
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| Locomotives: |
GMTX 728(SW8) |
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| Title: |
GMTX 728 |
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Heading away. |
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9/21/2020 Upload Date: 9/22/2021 6:27:21 PM |
| Location: |
Milton, IN |
| Author: |
Jacob Werling |
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| Locomotives: |
GMTX 728(SW8) |
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| Title: |
GMTX 728 |
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GMTX 728 crosses Holtsclaw Road at the intersection with State Road 1 in Milton |
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9/21/2020 Upload Date: 9/22/2021 6:30:05 PM |
| Location: |
Milton, IN |
| Author: |
Jacob Werling |
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| Locomotives: |
GMTX 728(SW8) |
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| Title: |
GMTX 728 |
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We considered shooting the train in town but decided that we wanted a nice open field shot south of town so we decided to wait on the train at Nickel Plate Road. A little waiting went by and the three engines came by, still struggling to pull the long train. Never in my life did I think Id ever see an end cab switcher pulling basically a unit coal train. Everything was right for this shot, and this one summed up the whole day. Perfect. |
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9/21/2020 Upload Date: 9/22/2021 6:33:20 PM |
| Location: |
Milton, IN |
| Author: |
Jacob Werling |
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| Locomotives: |
GMTX 728(SW8) |
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| Title: |
GMTX 728 |
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The conductor flags the crossing for State Road 1 north of Beesons and the train continues to work south. |
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9/21/2020 Upload Date: 9/22/2021 7:43:33 PM |
| Location: |
Beesons, IN |
| Author: |
Jacob Werling |
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| Locomotives: |
GMTX 728(SW8) |
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