No modeling in this video, but instead we hit the road and take a Railfanning trip to Rochelle, Illinois. Home to the Rochelle Railroad Park. The city of Rochelle put up an elevated viewing area, built a covered pavilion, installed park benches, added outlets and installed a radio to listen into the railroad chatter on the scanner. It's an incredible place to watch trains. The pavilion overlooks the diamonds of two mainlines of the UP and BNSF. Seeing plenty of traffic you can spend hours at the park and see plenty of traffic.
My son and I took a trip down this past Friday, the 25th of April and saw a great day. I've edited some footage of the trip, so this video consists of much of the trains we saw. Some highlights if you want to skip ahead:
8:51 - BNSF Local
18:20 - Slack action on a UP container train
21:44 - NS Power on a BNSF Oil Train
28:52 - UP Perishable Train racing UP Track Equipment (sort of)
30:35 - UP Track Equipment
30:52 - UP Track Equipment
33:52 - UP Frac Sand train. (Originated in WI)
37:05 - BNSF C44-9W 4300 Class Unit
42:24 - UP Power Move including a rare C40-8
44:00 - BNSF Warbonnet (Bad camera angle as we were packed up to head home when we heard this guy coming.)
Here is the link to the Rochelle Railroad Park website:
www.rochellerai...
Mixed in this video is an update on my new bike. Not exactly railroad related, but it's what is keeping me from doing more modeling!
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