Thanks for sharing. I recently picked up CP 8702 from FVM. I usually check out the rrpicturearchives site for weathering from prototypical photos. But these are so much better! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
He took a video and sent it to me that night. He's a good guy! Happy to hear they are helpful! Otherwise, I'm just burning expensive gas for kicks!!
Back in August 2004, I was hanging out with Flash Blackman in San Antonio. We were at the old Southern Pacific south yard to do some train watching. We got chased off from a good spot with good sun angle and wound beyond a fence on the "Dark Side" but on public property. This old trooper did not photograph well but we were still having a good time.
From yesterday morning, the temporarily combined Silver Star/Silver Meteor running late at Whitehead, SC. This is normally a nighttime passage, so it's a treat to see. Amtrak extended the "merging" of the two trains for several more months and it makes for an impressive sight in these parts. I guess it'll be a while longer before I see the new Siemens ALC-42s here.
I went thru Dalhart a few years back, and was surprised at how much building was going on there, and how busy of a RR town it is.
All glinty and stuff. Both near CP2030, BNSF KO Sub milepost 203.X, different days, different directions.
What was boring then with legions of SD40-2s on everything and everywhere, is now classic and appreciated. Nice capture, Hardcoaler!
As much as I loathed their takeover, nowadays I wish for the same. Along with the thunder of their power plants.
1940 Fords. Didn't they get mad when you left your Air Jordan shoe prints on the roof of that car? Doug
I remember 4-40 air conditioning, standard with the '40 Ford. Four windows open, forty miles-an-hour.
The closest I ever came to owning a 1940 Ford was with an AMT model when I was a kid. I actually bought two kits, one was a coupe and one was a sedan and you could build them either as a 1939 Ford or 1940 Ford. I built the Coupe as a '39 and the sedan as a '40. They were both lost, along with several other model cars, when the big attic clean-out happened in the early seventies and my dad thought I didn't want them anymore and I wasn't there to "supervise". Doug
Nice cars, beautiful shapes. At least they had enough real metal in them to stand on the roof without falling through... "No beer cans were harmed in the manufacture of those automobiles." I sympathize, brother. Been there, done that...