We will start with a sad pic. It's a GP38 that had a very bad day. If I remember right, this was not a lead unit and no one got hurt in this cab. A pair of good ole GE's, Some ubiquitous, at the time, SD40-2's, at the east end of the Livingston, MT yard, eastbound,
These are also from Livingston, MT in Nov 94. This GP30 came to LRC for some minor work and I think a repaint from the Eastern Idaho, MRL, Inside the LRC shops, from the mezanine looking down at a couple, This one is on the drop pit, used to be used to drop wheels out of steam engines for retiring, now for diseasils, re-wheeling or an entire truck, A pair of eastbound GP's from the cab of a unit I was riding in to test it. We did this continually with re-generatored, re-engined or rewired units to test everything. Going up and over Bozeman pass was a rush! And also, Cheyennes 4004 in Nov 94.
It was great fun when I got to play with every kind of diseasel there, from U-boats to 70MAC's and -9's. MRL had so much variety of heritage for their units. They had that NP heritage SW and lots of different GP's, and SD's. And we, LRC, kept a large stock of parts units to help keep things running. Funnest job I ever had!
Nov 94 and the 104 has a new paint job and a short nose, And a few U-boats brought up to be upgraded with more radiator, rebuilding engines and recabling, re-piping and making them serviceable again.
Boy.... I knew you were a train geek. But wow! Awesome collection of photos. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk