Norfolk Southern in Seattle??

Absolutely normal. What with horse power hours equalization, one might find ANY of the class 1 pieces of motive power anyplace else in the U.S. or Canada.

Cool, gives me a reason to keep riding that route! Is neat having the yard right in the heart of the city. This morning I noticed several pieces of CSX rolling stock which doesn't seem very common in our neck of the woods. I've also spotted a couple of SD40 locomotives paint blue and bearing the name Louis Dreyfuss. I believe they belong to the large shore to ship grain facility along the waterfront. They look a lot like the Pan-Am SD40 made by MTH (or my N scale version by Kato)

Similarly, I have seen the BNSF orange as well as the 

BNSF Santa Fe silver/red livery here in the Philly area.  What a pleasant surprise that was but I had to control my excitement since I was driving on the busy 76 Expressway.  

 

Rick

Just about everything shows up on the former Reading Lebanon Valley Branch between Harrisburg and Reading and the former Reading East Penn Branch between Reading and Allentown/Bethlehem: NS (of course) as well as all the Class 1's, a few minor leaguers, and the Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey cIrcus trains (Red and Blue).

 

Check on the whereabouts of NS Heritage Units. They run all over the map - literally.

See them all the time around here. Here's a video I took the other day while out on my daily walk. This one had some wind turbine parts. They are headed toward Kansas City. (NS does go to K.C., but this was a bit west of the city.)

 

BNSF & NS power on BNSF tracks

Here's a few from the VMT Cam in Roanoke. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a irony of this past winter in Virginia...

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, I see BNSF units on the CSX in my back yard, at least once a month. Once I saw a Burlington Northern Black and green unit.

I was visiting Jacksonville, FL a few years ago.  The first train that I saw had 4 Union Pacific diesels for power.  I see NS power a few times per year here in CA.

 

Joe

Saw BNSF units last week on CSX at Neshaminy Junction heading north from Philly

They looked pretty beat/tired/faded paint---I wasn't impressed

I've seen both UP and BNSF in Mass on CSX.  very common place these days.

Back in the 1960's it wasn't unusual to find CB&Q locos pooled with NYC power on the Central's Chicago-Detroit line. 

 

Jeff C

Or NYC power heading westbound out of Clyde Yard in Cicero.  I also remember UP locomotives being pooled on the Q and A-B-B-A sets of Great Northern FT's being lead out of Clyde by a Q F-unit.

 

It's not unusual to see NS, CSX, KCS and CN locomotives trundling through the western suburbs on the BNSF today.

 

Rusty

I got stopped Tuesday by a train coming out of the CSX yard here in Portsmouth VA. that had 2 Canadian Pacific engines on the front.  I've seen Guilford engines around Petersburg in the past as well.

we live next to the Canadian border in northern New York State,

and I have seen UP, Central Michigan, southern pacific

and santa fe locos in the area

I'm a bit late to the party, but here's a shot from Dunlap, Ind., where I was waiting for NKP 765 a few weeks ago. NS, UP and BNSF power at the head of one train.

 

David

What is the main resin the big rail roads use other company's powerunits. I see at NS new intermodal yard in Charlotte NC all of your big rail company engines like UP, CSX, BNSF, CN, Canadian Pacific. I have also even seen all of the above with two or three powerunits at this location beside NS units, it's become a very busy place and incredible to see how fast they down load and up load the intermodal cars and get them back out moving again

Billy

I can relate to this topic.  Back in the mid 90's I lived in Warwick,

Rhode Island.  My condo was no more than one quarter mile from

the NE Corridor.

 

One Sunday afternoon I was walking my dog along the fenced section

of the tracks when I heard the horn of a disel comming down from
Providence.  It was a three engine MUC doing about 50 mph, in the

middle of the two CSX (I believe they were all SD 70's) was a nice

looking Union Pacific engine. 

 

I had never seen a Union Pacific engine in Rhode Island prior to 

that experience.  Many times I had seen Norfork Southern engines

going thru the NE Corridor.  I never saw a Union Pacific engine after

that when I would go train watching with my dog.  I good memory for

this train nut. 

 

Many thanks,

 

Billy C

I like the idea of doing a free-lanced modern model railroad because I wouldn't need to paint my own equipment.  I would just use power from all the other railroads and say that my equipment is either on other parts of my railroad (not modeled) or being used on other railroads.

 

Stuart

 

Well, the 1 to 1 scale has certainly justified all these different roadnames running together or in close proximity, in basements.