Here's another "greenie" deuce, this time trailing three CEFX SD90MACs grinding uphill thru Abo Canyon to the summit at Mountainair, NM, 4-30-06. I blew the pic up for you to see it, but since it's so large, I just posted the URL here: http://www.railimages.com/g2/v/bobthompson/New_Mexico_Pix/100_0559_023.JPG.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
Ex-BN 8086 in the consist of a northbound local, Sherman, TX CN SD40-2W 5243 and trailing FURX "rent-a-wreck" greenie in consist of NB empty rock train. Sadly, yes, that's a Santa Fe "Super Fleet"-painted GE on the point, faded paint job & all. Greenie 7098, second unit in NB rock train consist, Sherman, TX
I hate to say it, Bob, but that is one of those great consists worth chasing, all matched... ...Until I saw the BN Deuce.... Kinda spoils it, eh? A beautiful shot, nevertheless!
After further review.....yeah, you're right. It's a Big Mac. I see so many GEs out here that I've alsomt forgotten what an EMD looks like- my bad. Here's a make-up pic: BNSF SD40-2 7657 trails a for-real GE (I'm looking at it thru the right part of my bifocals this time) on a bare-table train approaching Amarillo on (I believe) the ex-Santa Fe from the northeast, 4-30-06. FTR, Amarillo is a BNSF hotspot these days, with sstackers, pigs & gen. freights on the ex-Santa Fe and FW&D, and coalies on the ex-FW&D to & from Wyoming.
Two SD40-2s lead a ballast train on 7-26 towards Gallup, which is just ahead. EB junk freight (which also has a Deuce in the consist) passes on other track. The Hogback Ridge looms ahead- the defile on the right is where I-40 passes. US66, the tracks, and the Rio Puerco pass thru on the left.
Special Duty forty tunnel dash two Great topic Hemi! Earlier in the thread you said it was ok to post -2, Special Duty,40 tunnel motors...hmmm I think I have pics of some.. Thom
I have a pic of that very same locomotive in white, at Ashdown, AR October 25, 1980. I'm sure this locomotive was not too popular in western Arkansas, which is home to a lot of fundamentalist Christians (some, not all, of who get offended by this number)
NS SD40-2 3289 (ex-Southern, but sublettered "CG" for Central of Georgia on the cab), Tennille, GA, 8-26-06. Looking at the front end.
A pair of Deuces are giving all they got shoving a heavy manifest to the summit of Marias Pass, east of Java East:
Enroute to Atlanta Trailing unit, same consists, same freight. Macon Terminal in background to right. A 'Deuce as a slug mother- in this case, the Brosnan Yard hump engine. South end of Brosnan.
