A trip to UP's Condon Branch Line (feat. UP 1989)

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0:25 I've never seen a grain train go that fast!

[@Greatdome99]

That's a Canpotex potash empty headed back to Saskechewan via UP's Spokane Int'l and CP's Crows Nest Line. I've paced trains thru here at 90 powered by DDA40Xs and "Fast Forty" SD40-2 snouts in the good old days; today, 70's the limit. The entire railroad thru the Gorge was rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s and 60s for hydro dam projects, and the new line is very fast east of The Dalles.

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No distributed power units also means that these cars on this train were probably empty and heading east for more potash for export. DPU's are a common sight on a good percentage of trains that one would see here in the Pacific Northwest. Especially those unit trains heading for any one of the many ports and petroleum refineries in this area.

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