AEM7's are fading fast in the northeast. Here's one on SEPTA in the northwest Philly suburbs a few years back.
The "Rosenberg Express", actually the BNSF local that come down from Somerville and sometimes goes as far south as Thompsons to pick up bad order cars that have been set out and repaired. Here the power is parked on the questionable siding discussed a few weeks ago.
From about 1976 in New Hope, PA is PC 8311, a Baldwin S-12 I think? It was on New Hope & Ivyland property. I think it's a former NYC unit. I don't know much else about it, though I did find a photo of it on the Internet taken a year later with the unit supported by cribbing and without trucks.
I just went on railroad picture archives to check that unit out. It is an s12, but it isn’t on the Ivyland roster. The Penn Central page has the pictures of it up on blocks like you said, and the description that the photographer put says that it was pending a restoration for the New Hope and Ivyland, but since they don’t have it, I’m assuming it got scrapped. Someone else could always have some records that prove me wrong, so I’m not sure.
I just found a 2011 SMS diesel roster this morning and the 8311 (likely NYC 9311) doesn't appear there. Good thought though.
My post above was from April 2017. I just found out that recent heavy rains in late May/early June 2018 have again caused numerous slides and shut the Loops for two weeks while NS works repairs. I figure that trains will now detour far north via Roanoke, then south to Salisbury. If the Saluda line were still in service, NS would have had a far more sensible alternate route, but to be fair, the Saluda line would have been hammered too. (After ~15 years of disuse, it's washed out in many places and nature is rapidly reclaiming the line.)
Here is a strange consist from the early 90s. SP was scrounging power from everyone. The SSW is followed by a Wisconsin Central SD45 (6501) and an ex Santa Fe SD45 patched to WC6600. There is another WC SD45 (6571) behind it that is not visible. The Angelina & Neches River box car is kind of cool too. The train is pulling off of the DALSA branch just south of the Hearne yard.
Very interesting. It's cool that the RR has a photo of the Texas historical marker about them posted on it's home page.
Roster of CBBI03 -June 3, 2018 IAIS 508(ES44AC) NS 7325(SD70ACu) NS 8399(C40-8W--ex Conrail) NS 4057(AC44C6M)
Their home page sure indicates that they are quite aggressively involved in the industry....although in a smaller way!! Kudos to them for keeping up with the changes that have occurred in those 118 years! Too bad that kind of thinking wasn't more wide spread!! Jim
You got that right. I like the GP40FH-2 kitbash. An old GP40 with new innards, a HEP generator and the rear cowl off a retired BN F45... I had the chance to see one up close when they loaned some of them to the Montreal transit agency a couple of years ago.
