Tehachapi 2003

[William Cowie]

Great new forum! I'm sure we're going to see lots of great pictures. Here's one to kick off with:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/williamcowie/acx.jpg

[E-8]

Great pic and you had the first post.

Is that cross on top of that hill due to a plane crash there or something? I know of several spots like that where such things have occured and crosses mark the hilltops.

Charlie

[Harron]

Also, that last unit looks pretty long. Anybody know if it happens to be an SD45-2? Pretty hard to tell, but it just seems too long to be an SD40-2 to me.

[William Cowie]

Hi Corey, yes that was an SD45-2. It was also a very long train of RoadRailers - if you look closely, you can see the remainder just barely peeking out to the left of the hill.

Charlie, I don't know why the cross is up there. I plan on another trip there next month - I'll try to find out when I'm there.

[NSCALEMIKE]

I believe, the cross is a memorial to the fallen crew members of the SP head-on collision in Devore, Ca back in the late 80's.

[ 22. January 2004, 08:59: Message edited by: NSCALEMIKE ]

[E-8]

Interesting.

Charlie

[Alan]

William, what a great shot to start off the new forum! One of my favourite places, too smile.gif

[fitz]

Here's an old one from the July 1995 Grand Opening of Steamtown, left to right Milwaukee 261, Blue Mountain and Northern 425, NY Susquehanna & Western 142, CN 3254. :D http://www.railimages.com/albums/jimfitzgerald/acn.sized.jpg

[William Cowie]

Jim,

That's a nice shot - wisps of smoke merging with some summer haziness... and the powerful workhorses of old restrained by nothing more than pedestrian cords. I hope elicits more good images from members' collections!

William

[signalguy]

Johnny Trains asked me to post this for him. He took the photo in Binghamton, NY in 1987. This locomotive is not quite sure who it belongs to as it has PC on the nose covered by CR and a big G on the side so it looks like Guilford won. This was during the period that Guilford owned D & H.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/johnniegocki/aao.jpg

[Harron]

That would be Guilford-owned B&M GP40 332. Guilford dumped all it's Dash 2 equipment in favor of non-dash 2 stuff. Most of it was in a trade with Conrail. As we know, CR was formed out of PC, so a bunch of Guilford's locos may have had old reporting marks.

Also in that consist is an original B&M GP40-2 (it's non-dynamic). This particular unit actually is now on the CP in the 4650 series. The trailing unit is an ex-Santa Fe SD26. The GP40-2s were the last "new" equipment the B&M had.

[Colonel]

excellent shots guys :D

[Peirce]

If we are going to get pix if this quality, I believe we are off to a great start. I will be adding a few of mine a bit later.

[signalguy]

Originally posted by Harron:
That would be Guilford-owned B&M GP40 332. Guilford dumped all it's Dash 2 equipment in favor of non-dash 2 stuff. Most of it was in a trade with Conrail. As we know, CR was formed out of PC, so a bunch of Guilford's locos may have had old reporting marks.
Corey - The 332 also was possibly a Pennsy loco as it has the cab signal equipment box on the running board in front of the cab. There were no cab signal equipped NYC locos prior to the merger. NYC had intermittent inductive train stop and that was all removed in the late 60s. There were a few NYC locos equipped with cab signals after the PC merger.