http://rides.webshots.com/album/558515087sENlhg?start=48 The above is a link to a set of pics taken by Mark St. Aubin of an ABBA set of SD45-2s on the Timber Rock RR near Conroe, TX. Four 20-cylinder EMDs........can't be beaten!
I've seen SD45-2s in singles or pairs in trains, but never in thisconfiguration before. Definitely beats an ABBA set of Fs in power, if not in looks.
Definitely a nice catch. But, for me, nothing will ever beat the F units lashed up in fours, and more. Boxcab E50
I think the last time I saw that type of configuration was in the early 1980s along the BN line in Louisville, Colorado... As for the Fs...only ever seen pics of em but would love to have seen em live! John John
Last all-F lashup I saw that was in action was on the Frisco in Afton, OK around 1973. The very last F-unit lashup, period, I saw was in the old Hull St. Yard on the C&NW in Des Moines, IA in 1981, where the North Western had set aside quite a few Fs for retirement (with even more up in Oelwein at the former CGW yard).
