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Viewing Album:  Banta Rail Excursion on the INRD
 
By:Andy Pearce
Dates:11/14/2010 - 11/14/2010
Album Info:Sunday Nov 14th 2010 and an ambitious enthusiasts charter was run by Banta Rail covering Indiana Rail Road lines rarely (if ever) traversed by a passenger train.
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Sunday Nov 14th 2010 and an ambitious enthusiasts charter was run by Banta Rail covering lines rarely (if ever) traversed by a passenger train. Here INRD 4003 runs at line speed through Deming Park in the suburbs of Terre Haute
Title:  Sunday Nov 14th 2010 and an ambitious enthusiasts charter was run by Banta Rail covering lines rarely (if ever) traversed by a passenger train. Here INRD 4003 runs at line speed through Deming Park in the suburbs of Terre Haute
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:31 AM
Location:  Terre Haute, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4003(SD40-2)
Views:  490   Comments: 0
What a great location for train watching. If only there were more trains to watch!
Title:  What a great location for train watching. If only there were more trains to watch!
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:32 AM
Location:  Terre Haute, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  466   Comments: 0
Around the North side of the city now, NRD 4001 brings up the rear as the consist heads across the Wabash River and on to the Duke Energy generating plant
Title:  Around the North side of the city now, NRD 4001 brings up the rear as the consist heads across the Wabash River and on to the Duke Energy generating plant
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:32 AM
Location:  Terre Haute, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2)
Views:  351   Comments: 1
Back through Deming Park again and heading for mining country
Title:  Back through Deming Park again and heading for mining country
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:33 AM
Location:  Terre Haute, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
An hour or so later and we find the train heading down the newly opened spur to Bear Run Mine
Title:  An hour or so later and we find the train heading down the newly opened spur to Bear Run Mine
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:34 AM
Location:  Bear Run Mine, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
The 1950's rolling stock provided by Mid America Rail Leasing contrasts well with the INRD locomotives
Title:  The 1950's rolling stock provided by Mid America Rail Leasing contrasts well with the INRD locomotives
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:34 AM
Location:  Bear Run Mine, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2) INRD 4003(SD40-2)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Spot the train! Enormous worn out tyres from mining trucks are used to help stabilise the reclaimed landscape, whilst in the distance an 6000 ton dragline casts a cloud of dust as it strips the topsoil to reveal fresh coal seams
Title:  Spot the train! Enormous worn out tyres from mining trucks are used to help stabilise the reclaimed landscape, whilst in the distance an 6000 ton dragline casts a cloud of dust as it strips the topsoil to reveal fresh coal seams
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:35 AM
Location:  Bear Run Mine, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4003(SD40-2)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
Stripped shale is piled almost to the trackside as the train arrives at the mine
Title:  Stripped shale is piled almost to the trackside as the train arrives at the mine
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:36 AM
Location:  Bear Run Mine, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Great lumps of low grade coal are discarded amongst the shale
Title:  Great lumps of low grade coal are discarded amongst the shale
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Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:38 AM
Location:  Bear Run Mine, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4001(SD40-2)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Finally, the special runs through a landscape of harvested corn and bean fields to cross a trestle bridge
Title:  Finally, the special runs through a landscape of harvested corn and bean fields to cross a trestle bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/14/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 2:27:30 AM
Location:  Elnora, IN
Author:  Andy Pearce
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  INRD 4003(SD40-2)
Views:  937   Comments: 6

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