Time for planting. Has anyone else noticed any "b's" and "slugs" in the garden? Guess I'll have to get some bugkiller. BNSF in FtWorth, Tx. BNSF in FtWorth
No "b"s or slugs, but I've already had to put out Amdro on two humongous fire-ant mounds in my front yard............. Oh, THOSE kinda slugs.........closest I know there are any would be at Lone Star, TX running on the Texas & Northern. I HAVE seen a Santa Fe SD45-2 B unit in Sherman, as part of the power for a rock train. As for any other B-units, look for the ex-Metra F40Cs to show up on KCS freights this spring or summer, until the new SD70ACes show up. They'll be used as trailing units, or middle units in 3-locomotive-or-greater power consists.
Well I guess nobody's interested in this one . I'll give 'er one more try: Houston, Tx. Check out the cool horn and beacon placement on the top of this one. Definately a cool thought for a model.
I used to see some U25B slugs on the rock trains going through San Antonio. I don't think I have seen a slug on a road train in San Antonio in a very long time. Are they still around?
Sadly, we have no slugs around these parts. The closest I know of is the KCS F-unit slug on display at the Frisco depot in Hugo, OK. Is that UP slug a conversion from a U23B or B23-7?
i've seen a couple of been sniiffy slugs come through perry a while back. will have to get that roll of film developed and see if i had a shot turn out.
CSX used to run GP-30 Slugs to/from New Orleans fairly regularly, but I haven't seen any in the past couple of years. I don't know if CSX even has any left. Maybe someone near the Appalachian routes where add-on power is needed has current info.
I'll preface this photo with the disclaimer that it isn't mine. I don't know who took it, but I thank them for letting me borrow it . Anyone know who BHP Iron Ore is?
BHP- Broken Hill Properties A mining company that operates mines in Australia & South America. Most likely, this beast is going to Aus. to be run on their mining RR there.
Seen a couple GP40-2/slug sets in the past few months working the local. Most commonly a GP38-2 and a wore out B36-7. 23 days until WATCO / Appalachian and Ohio change over. Heard that WATCO purchased over 40 SD50's from CSX. Guess I'll see on March 26th.
And to further add to Bob's reply... That unit is from the iron ore operation in Western Australia and is a Goninans (GE's Newcastle, NSW-based license holder) -8 rebuild of one of their original imported ALCo C-636's (as noted by the Hi-Ad trucks and fuel tanks) and named Kaohsiung. Classed CM40-8ML, the locos were cabless mid-train locos that were set up as Locotrol command units; they later had the cabs retrofitted. Here's what it would have looked like with it's unique retrofitted 'Pilbabra cab'; http://locopage.railpage.org.au/photos/BHP-5634.jpg
TXRonHarris and William, Thanks for the shots of UP CCRCLs!!!! I've got a couple other pics of these posted on my site. Have an ol Bachmann unit that just may turn into one of these. Won't be exactly right but will do the job.
This one's for the Colonel . It's not my photo (don't know where it came from actually), but the person who took it sure caught a good one for the history book of "B" units:
They're all off the roster, but I miss these slugs, oddly enough: B30-7A slug, one of 100 once used by BN.
Nice one Bob. I remember seeing those all up and down the BN along highway 287 on the way to college in the 80's.
