This is the third of 4 good videos I got today on the way home from Billings. There is a Ferromex unit in the parked grain train.
And this one is the first one, it's a bit long as the train was parked and had just begun accelerating past the east wye switch at Jones Junction.
That is a weird looking loco! Is it a one off, and what is that build up at the front end of the hood? Donald Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Not sure. The info from RELCO- http://www.relcolocomotives.com/XD/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Wow, that photo of 1973 is great, the view I can't quite place. Where you up on the bridge to get the pic? I never noticed the C&S lettering peaking through back in 2010 until now. That day it was working the yard with 2136, so weird to see six axles doing the switching on Harbor Island. One would of thought UP would have beat the BN to it first.
I took my pic from the road right behind the 1973, just pulled up and stopped on a Sunday, no traffic!
You should see it with the big straw sticking out of there. Weirdest looking pop bottle ever. But I like the look of that engine. Looks rugged, no-nonsense. Reminds me of the MLW M420TR.
CP 2309 westbound on the Iowa Interstate with local freight for Nahant Yard. Davenport, IA-1/9/2018 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A friend of mine has a job escorting high/wide loads on the railroads. He just got back from a trip escorting a turbine engine that goes into a generator for a power plant from North Carolina to North Dakota and into Canada. Here are a few of his photos from the trip.
CP sure has made those old locomotives look good again, haven't they. There are many around here too Doug
That's their Geep recycling program - taking old GP9s (that have already been rebuilt/upgraded with 645 power assemblies) and making practically new engines called GP20C-ECOs. They have a new, 2000 hp turbocharged 710 V8 and new innards, nicely updated look, and all the newfangled stuff. They have a whole gaggle of them - they had a bottomless supply of old Geeps as fodder. The first unit was 2200, and now they're in the 2300s! A couple of years ago, the Exporail museum had their Diesel Weekend, with a Diesel Parade on the Saturday. One of the engines was a GP20C-ECO. Sounds like an EMD, a bit deeper in tone. Nice and shiny and new.
Had to smile at this photo I grabbed yesterday, where a muscular CSX GE ET44AH was assigned to a lowly work train dropping fresh crossties.
Damn useless Firefox. What a joke they are these days. Yet another of many daily "Tab Crashed" error messages and lost my post here.
Great post Box. The solution is always to switch to whatever brand of browser you aren't using. My cell phone is a low-tech pay-by-the-month type and their website makes me crazy. Depending on what browser is used, the screen will show or not show important fields and order confirmation.
Also spotted NYC 587426 yesterday, a relic of the distribution process where old reporting marks were resuscitated for use by NS and CSX to assign equipment ownership as they took ownership of their CR lines. As might be expected, NS used PRR. I don't know if I've ever seen a car so completely enveloped in rust, even in MofW service .....
