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This week's update is recipe for a great railfannning day. I tested this recipe on July 2, 2005 for the Trains Unlimited Tours special heading to the NRHS Convention in Portland, Oregon. As cooks know, the best way to create a spectacular dish would be to use the finest ingredients. Some of these ingredients are rare or are hard to obtain so today's railfan recipe had the potential to be something great. Let's start with the ingredients and get right into the step by step chase: 1 special passenger train lead by PPCX 6304 in SP Black Widow paint 15 passenger cars Running Northern California trackage on the bay and the mountains 22 hours from door to door and enough gas and caffeine to cover 700 miles driving Thanks to Espeedude Ryan Martin for leading the chase from the bay area and with all the info during the day. Now let's get right into Part 1 of this exciting train chase...

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Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Emeryville, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   PPCX 6304 wearing the Southern Pacific Black Widow paint scheme leads a pair of Amtrak locomotives and a variety of passenger cars into the Emeryville station.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Emeryville, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   6304 at Emeryville preparing for the long trip ahead.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Emeryville, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   Engineer Phil boards the F unit and gives his first wave of the day.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Emeryville, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   The Trains Unlimited Tours special is on its way out of Emeryville. The crew applied liberal amounts of horn to the delight of the railfans on the ground.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Crockett, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   PPCX 6304 breaks free from the fog and basks in the early morning rays along the bay.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Davis, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   After blasting through Davis, our special crosses the causeway as it approaches West Sacramento.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: Location: Davis, CA Builder/Model:   The TUT special races over the causeway at 70+ mph and will arrive in Sacramento in a few minutes.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Sacramento, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   The summer heat is appearent from this angle. The NRHS special has just crossed over the American River bridge in Sacramento and is heading north on its destination of McCloud, CA.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Sacramento, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   The fresh Black Widow paint looks great in the morning sun. We get another wave from the friendly crew as it passes us at Sacramento.  Date: 7/2/2005 Road #: PPCX 6304   (19 photos) Location: Sacramento, CA Builder/Model: EMD FP9AU more...   PPCX 6304 accelerates quickly after maintaining a 25mph max speed around the Haggin junction. It's smooth running from here until it reaches the Sacramento River Canyon north of Redding.    Next 10 >>

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