Heritage: Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania ES44AC #8102
1,878 views · Published 16 November 2014 · 8:29 · Indexed 30 October 2026
Channel: Jason Stiles · 2014 · Entertainment
Filmed 11/08/14 This train, well, the UP, played games with me all day. This was originally the primary target for the day, as it turned out, in my previous video, the UP passenger inspection train also became a primary target. They were both due into Union Pacific's Neff Yard sometime between 10am to Noon. In fact, this train was ahead of the Passenger. But, this is the Coffeyville Sub, and it's about as unpredictable as it gets. When I first got there around 9:30am, I waited for almost an hour before anything came through, and that was the Inspection train. UP stopped all traffic to let the Passenger train go through, just like the railroads do with Amtrak. Once the Special was cleared, I was expecting this train to be through in a short amount of time. HA! This is where the unpredictability of this line comes into play... Chris was keeping me updated as best as he could from an airplane, and he was baffled by what went on next. Train after train went by and no NS. Apparently, UP decided to put this train in a siding for a while, letting everyone, including a couple BNSF trains go around it, and in the process, letting the crew go dead. Yay.. more delays. Mind you, my original plan was to film the Passenger train and this train, then be out at the train club by Noon. But UP had other ideas. Trains kept going by, not the one I was after, then around 2 or so, all traffic stopped. The NS train was now scheduled into Neff at around 3:30pm... awesome. So, I sat for another hour and a half watching empty tracks. FINALLY I heard a higher pitched, non-UP horn in the distance, and at 3:19pm it finally showed up, and then stopped between the two crossings in front of the Leeds plant. I then jumped in my car and quickly drove down to the next crossing to film it again. So even though I missed out on the club that day, I got a pretty good show out of this train in return. Plus I got to film a bunch of other trains too. So it's all good. -------------------------------- Heritage Score Board: Union Pacific... GOT 'EM ALL! - 1982 (5: Leading**, DPU 2x, Agentine Yard, Leading) - 1983 (4: Leading 3x, DPU) - 1988 (5: Leading*, 3rd out*, Leading, 2nd out, DPU) - 1989 (2: Neff Yard, Leading) - 1995 (2: Neff Yard, Leading) - 1996 (5: Leading*, 2nd out, 3rd out, Leading 2x) Amtrak... 1 left - 66 (20+: Leading the River Runners) - 156 (10+: Leading the River Runners & 2nd out) - 184 (8: Leading 314/313, 2nd out on #4, leading #4) - 822 (1: Leading, though apparently this isn't a Heritage unit, even though it's painted like one. Completely stupid.) Norfolk Southern... 14 to go. - 1066 (1: Leading) - 1068 (1: 2nd out) - 1069 (1: Argentine Yard) - 8100 (1: 2nd out) - 8102 (1: 2nd out) - 8104 (1: Avondale Yard) #: number of times I've seen them * notes that unit was not filmed or photographed at that time. ** notes that unit was photographed, not filmed. ---------------------------- Chris' Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/844Train Shane's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrakeman17 Vinny's Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/bnsf6951 ---------------------------- My Stuff: facebook (Railfan Jason) - https://www.facebook.com/JasonRS.UP9229 facebook (Eastern Jackson County Mainliners) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/EJCMRailroadClub/ deviantART (UP9229) - http://up9229.deviantart.com/ Train club account: - http://www.youtube.com/user/EJCMRailroadClub/featured EJCM website: - http://easternjacksoncountymainliners.com/ Yahoo group: - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freelanced_Model_Railroads/
