Yessir, Dont think I have seen that many PA's on one train. Great images. I have a great friend that was a hoghead on the D&SNG. Tom Jones. (yep his real name). A class act and a great engineer. We went thru engineer school together on the BNSF, I would not have made it, if it hadn't been for his help. He recently retired. I will certainly miss him around this outfit.
I believe those PAs would run through to Ogden, so they probably used that many to lug the train over the Sierras. More 80's narrow gauge, this time on the C&TS at Cumbres Pass with K-36 488, 1984 (????) No mistaking what purpose this car is for, February 1977 (Bob Jordan)
They have one at the museum in Duluth, Michigan [edit: ummm..maybe Minnesota?]. Nice new GN paint job when I saw it. index.php
Southern SD45 3132, November 1973 (Bob Jordan) Down in Western Mississippi, Columbus & Greenville DRS6-4-1500 601 rolls a short freight along the grassy right of way, May 25, 1972 (Bob Jordan)
Love the Southern SD45 and it is really cool to see the C&G 601 in action. She is stuffed and mounted in front of the C&G roundhouse in Columbus MS now.
Your guess is as good as mine. No location was written on the slide itself, and there isn't very much to go off of in the background of the photo either.
Ooops, can't blame that one on auto correct. How embarrassing. The upper peninsula of Michigan is on the other side of Wisconsin.
No doubts as to who owns this boxcar, February 1977 (Bob Jordan) BN U28C 5674, ex-NP 2808, June 1971 (Bob Jordan)
BN U25C 5618, ex-NP 2518, Superior, WI, April 30, 1971 (Rik Anderson) UP U25B 629, Council Bluffs, IA, April 13, 1970 (Rik Anderson)
That red wheel is a "Hennessy Wheel" which were trialed in boxcar fleets in the early-to-mid '70s. The wheel rode on the toothed rack and made it easy to open and close the sliding door. They were a great idea and well engineered, but old habits die hard and warehouse lift truck drivers persisted in using their forks to work doors, which spun the wheel at high speed, stripped the teeth off the rack and ruined the entire mechanism. They were a short-lived sight.
U-boats! Thanks! Great memories! These were an electrical adventure, and I say that in a good way. There was a solid state electronics rack under the cab. The biggest issue that would get your attention was the main generator Field Control transistor card. It used one of those big old 1960's transistors to control that field. Remember those in your old transistor radios? Neat thing is that when they fail, they fail 'short.' And that means they conduct maximum current, and that means maximum output from the main gen! My first time on one of these, I did all the electrical checks, fired it up and then went into a 'stall test.' Normally, that means full brakes applied and put it in notch 1, which should show you 300 amps on the meter. However, with a bad FT card, when I hit the throttle, the ampmeter pegged! 1500 amps! And we were moving down the track! In the shop! Yes, the brakes were at max! Got about 10 feet before I slapped it back to idle and it quit moving, and it was a quick response on my part! Needless to say, my foreman was standing right there, laughing! He had been there, too. At least he told me what to look at, after I changed my shorts!
