It's another dance competition. I'm in a Best Western in Hayward, not by my photos. Hopefully I'll find time to post something tomorrow.
Not a great photo as I was looking into the afternoon sun...my son and I were going into Newman, Ca. to pick up some groceries and caught this California Northern train heading back to Tracy on SP's old West Side line:
From last week’s outing-CSX 3003 leading a westbound ethanol train on Absolute Blocks at MP 86 on the UP Clinton Sub. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
From Wednesday—Ferromex 4696 second out on a westbound stack train east of Lisbon, IA on the UP Clinton Sub. This unit led from Yard Center in Chicago to Global 3 in Rochelle, IL. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lancaster & Chester SW-900 No. 91 switches a feed mill in Richburg, SC on 01/22/2019. She was built new for the road in 1965.
The two CIT's and the white Soo engines are gone from the Kanawha River Railroad. The leases are up. Curtis
Great catch. I didn't know SW-900s were even offered that late. I assumed their production stopped in the late 1940s.
UP playing with fuel tenders? Nah! This was a local that did not go very far. Maybe just some weird occurrence where the crew had to split up and service two different customers where each took a different locomotive and coupled up together later? Who knows.........
While on the road to Minneapolis for a taekwondo tournament, I bagged this Cat-powered Geep leading empties east out the siding at Tower City, ND. Strange name for a town with no towers....
Took a trip up to Santa Rosa to pick up some of my stuff. We went kind of "the back way" to avoid the Bay Area traffic nightmare. In Fairfield, Ca. I saw a Union Pacific freight sitting near the Bud Brewery:
They keep they're equipment clean-look at the shine on those units!! Compared to the old grain hopper behind them!
SW900s were built from December 1953 through March 1969 - 567s well into the 645 era! And a production run to rival the RS-1...
