CP 245, the daily St.Paul to Calgary manifest waits for a fresh crew at Minot. The dual flag unit was a rare catch for me.
I think this way the 2-unit consist has its cab roughly in the middle, allowing it to go either way with roughly the same visibility. Dom
I believe they were all traded in to GE for new B36-7 locomotives. Whether GE used them for parts and scrapped what was left or sold some intact, I do not know. The crews hated them. Crowded cab, spring loaded doors between internal compartments around the prime mover and electrical stuff. Amtrak did buy the GE P30CH which was another passenger variant of the U30C but they did fix a lot of the complaints.
From 06/01/2016 at Columbia, SC, NS 9435 (as rebuilt to a GE D9-44CW). Why is it notable? It's CLEAN. I'm not sure what y'all see in your regions, but most of what I see on NS and CSX these days are filthy dirty.
Back in July of 2009, the KCS had finished rebuilding the old Southern Pacific "Macaroni" line between Rosenberg and Victoria, Texas. One of the first trains to travel on the new track was the business train. Here it is coming off the bridge over the Colorado River in Wharton. And look, Kato Unitrack has a prototype.
Same here, almost all of BNSF's locos up here are trashed, filthy, smoking, etc. ...and we're at the end of UP's "Branchline" to Seattle, so they also send up they're junk beaters.
Washing them costs money. Anything to pinch a penny or two.... Gotta make that "bottom line" look healthy, no matter what ...
I think the black is lighter because of the moss growing on it. AS far as I know they want to repaint it back to its original B&LE paint. The rear steps and handrails were removed in order to steal the trucks with the good wheels and install them on a GP-9, thank God the GP-9 blew up before they could do that. Now I gotta fix them both. Anyone want to come play with MY trains?
Absolutely thrashed, you got that right. Glad to see clean units! And a soggy Wet Noodle after a rainstorm leads a grain train into the old GN yard in Minot.
A little west of Indianola MS on Tuesday, 7/5/22. The C&G 8715 aka Big D was not at all what I was expecting to find. Not the best light but still a cool catch.
An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 1 UP Diner 4613 at North Platte UP RPO 2064 at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE UP Baggage-Coach 2512 at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE Pullman 10-1-2 Sleeper "Lake Crystal" at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE