I wasn't sure, but I had time to kill. Unfortunately, I was going to have a bugger of a time finding another place to park. The north shore of Minnetonka is a pretty popular place to be seen.
I pulled into the next public parking lot that was about 1/8th of a mile east of where I started out.
It quickly became apparent that I was not going to get a parking spot there. The lot was full, but there were some people walking their very elderly parents to their parked car. But there was were also three cars in front of me waiting for that spot. And as soon as I pulled in there, three more cars had the same idea about the spot and line up behind me.
I heard the train coming, and thought that I was completely out of luck. I grabbed this one out the window of the lead unit.
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| Grab and Go Action! |
then after a little while, the people ahead got their spot, but I still wanted my picture! I pulled ahead, and off to the side of the lot exit to let the cars behind me out. I got a few strange looks, but that was ok. I knew that this loaded coal train had a bonus!
Instead of having three locomotives pulling, many of the trains have two units pulling, and one pushing like mad on the back end. I wanted this pusher, or Distributed Power Unit (DPU) as they are officially known as.
After about thirty seconds of watching coal cars roll east, I saw the heat rising from the exhaust of this bonus DP unit!
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| DP Action! |
And with that, it was time to head back for home. A nice day of railfanning action!
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