Yes, it is really a sharp paint job, and really stands out compared to the monochromatic NS scheme. Runthrough power has been scarce recently also, so no color there either. Even the Heritage Units are getting tattered.
Hoarfrost! Ice fog, a healthy afternoon of train action in Gassman Coulee, milepost 7 BNSF Glasgow Sub. Westbound grain train: Eastbound cracker stacker at blue hour:
While cleaning out my late mother's house, I came across some old 35mm Kodachrome slides that appear to have been taken in the late 1930s. These were taken by my grandfather; modern Kodachrome was introduced in 1935. I haven't had time to edit the few I've scanned, such as this one of Washington Union Station. Maybe some of y'all with an interest in vintage automobiles can determine if this is a pre-War image?
A lot of late 30's vehicles there. Maybe even an early 40'a or two...so either pre WW2 or early init. That's my best guess.
I don't know but it is always a treat to see a color photograph from those days! I don't know about anybody else but sometimes it's a bit of a challenge for me to imagine those days as being in color, not having lived in those times and usually only having black and white photos to see. Was 1941 the last model year made until the end of the war? Doug
I agree. There's a lot of vehicles starting about early 1930s and into the late 1930s. Maybe some pre-war 1940s. It's amazing how the colors are still good after that long. Great photo.
It is a foggy, gray, damp day, late Fall of 1980. BN #684 and sisters sit in the dead line at Auburn Yard, Washington. (She is ex-GN #464A.) In a couple of months she will avoid the scrapper's torch, and be running again, as Seattle & North Coast Railroad's #102:
Funny, these units were wearing almost the same paintscheme as some of their sisters working thousands and thousands miles from them... Dom
We are definitely into the 1940's. Car production was stopped for the 1942 model year. We must remember that when it restarted, (in 1945), as they had no new tooling. Thus designs used for two or three years were those of pre-WWII. I would guess this was taken post-War, 1945-1948.
BNSF geometry car 90 passed through Tulsa on the old Frisco this afternoon, probably headed to Dallas. One locomotive, one hopper, and 90.
Old SD40-2s never die.... They just work for new owners... CP train 199 is framed by an antique steel bridge over the Souris River at Logan, ND during blue hour.
The SD40-2s were in the 70s what the GP9s were in the 50s. Just the right loco at the right time. And both are virtually unkillable. They just keep soldiering on. Even the SD40s were tough - there's a trio of them, albeit rebuilt and upgraded to SD40-3, working the Quebec-Gatineau through my home town of Ste-Therese. The three were together on a transfer run, probably from CP's St-Luc yard up to the former CP Ste-Therese-West yard in what is now Boisbriand. It was a thrill to see those locos rumble by, doing what they've been doing for the past 50 years or so. QGRY_6920a by Mike VE2TRV posted May 31, 2016 at 8:30 PM Gotta love those old beasts.
