Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

A Whitcomb it is:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel134.html
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3184762

 

When did you take that picture? Seems BNSF had an SD40-2 #7015 until 2013,when it went to Helms Leasing.

 

Looking like a setting from a model railroad, CSX emerges from the tunnel at Orlando, KY in March of 1996.

 

ex Conrail 8449 leads a roadrailer southbound through Austell GA - August 2004

 

I see your Imperial and raise you a Cadillac:

 

Also, that Imperial limo would look better without the railroad wheels and roof rack:

 

Here's another photo of that Imperial hi-rail limo. Supposedly it was used by the president of the NYC.

 

slightly off topic, being transferred from local Packard museum to another facility.

 

A couple of NS GP60's rolling through Austell GA - August 2004

 

Just some shots taken in '92 and '93 in the Columbia, SC area on the line to Charlotte, NC. The first is of a southbound winding through the curves near Killian, SC and the other of a departing northbound clawing for traction.

 

Those last two shots are great!!

 

Wonder if that's what gave someone the idea for avocado green appliances?

 

Southbound on the NS at Austell GA - Aug 2004

 

One of the strangest locomotives to have emerged from GE were ten BQ-23-7s, sold to the SCL/Family Lines in 1978 and 1979. With cabooses in eclipse, the design provided a large cab for crews with a desk for the Conductor. Crews didn't support caboose elimination, so eventually refused to use the BQs if they headed up any train. Management capitulated and the units were then found only in trailing positions. Eventually their windows were plated over and they met their fate as scrap in 2001.

Here's the 5131 trailing in Montgomery, AL in May 1985.

 

I used to see a couple of "BQ's" when I was working in Attalla, Alabama.

 

I think I can help you with this. A waitress from a local drive in restaurant is serving beverages to the occupants of the car on rail wheels. Yes, seriously, a cool shot. Very vintage.

 

Yup, the GM&O was all over pulpwood hauling.

 

Riding on EMD Blomberg "Type B" trucks as well, to make it really weird lookin'!