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Title: Evening train watching at East Siding, Clinton, TN, 7/15/14
Post by: leroy on July 16, 2014, 11:47:46 AM
Late afternoons and early evenings (...sometimes til dark...) are pretty busy on the Knoxville-Harriman line around the hamlet of Clinton... There are always a couple of locals and several road trains moving thru... I love Clinton for several reasons; its close to my house, it's quiet, and there are most always trains moving thru...

I spent about 3 or so hours last evening here and saw a couple of relatively notable sights... The first is a southbound rail train (...NS910...) with a relatively unusual engine configuration; long hood forward... The pictures are a bit "lazy"; as they were shot on the "wrong or shady side" at about 5:45 pm or so; so there are plenty of shadows...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14669911771/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14669911771/)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14692996163/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14692996163/)


The third shot was done at about 8:00 pm or so; and is a relatively unusual sight for this part of the line... A CSX locomotive... It is leading grain empties (...NS 55A...) northbound; and is gettin ready to push a southbound grain train (...50G...) that is waiting at Laurel Siding...The CSX 641 is a bit unusual; as i think it is one of the 4000/6000 horsepower "convertables"...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14650110206/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/125551336@N07/14650110206/)

Hope ya enjoy the pictures...
Title: Re: Evening train watching at East Siding, Clinton, TN, 7/15/14
Post by: E.M. Bell on July 16, 2014, 05:02:52 PM
Leroy, the link you provided takes us to a log in page, but that is as far as you can get. No images!
Title: Re: Evening train watching at East Siding, Clinton, TN, 7/15/14
Post by: leroy on July 16, 2014, 06:41:30 PM
I understand... Will try to figure out how to post the pictures directly... I think ive got 'em sized right...
Sorry for the confusion...

8:57 pm update... I ain't smart enough to do this... I can get the links in the post; but I can't get the pictures to upload directly into the body of the post... They are jpegs and are about 270K or so... Any help would be greatly appreciated...

leroy