Nices pics everybody! And thanks Stourbridge Lion for putting it in the sticky "Pun" topics thread. Heres a poor SP Flare 45 that got punched in the nose. Looks like he got a "bloody nose" Thom
CR 5680 Poster: EL03440 (see this users gallery) Conrail local freight RE-2 (Red Bank to Elizabethport, NJ) rolls north on the Chemical Coast at Grasselli, NJ 8/11/78
BNSF on the KCS in Plano, Tx. BNSF in Clovis, NM. BNSF Texas panhandle. Old school cascade green Saginaw, Tx.
Likely the most famous F-unit nose in history! Nice stuff! BNSF 7009 pokes its nose out of 3,886 feet of pitch blackness of Mullan Tunnel, at the summit of Mullan Pass, and the Continental Divide:
Ok, it's not a GP49 but it is an Alaska SD70 Mac. Ditched work to catch this in Western NE on their way through on the UP to Seatle. I did not get to see them all. I think I saw 5 out 16. Never did see the second batch with the flares and HEP. They all went by the way of CP.
Help out the ignorant, how is that more famous then: [not my image] Or Western Pacific or Burlington or ...... What am I missing?
Easy--D&RGW 5771 was the F9A that hauled the Rio Grande Zephyr after the Cal Z was taken over by Amtrak (Chicago-Denver, that is). 5771 and its mates pulled the RGZ (Denver-SLC) till 1983, making them the last set of F units in long-distance passenger train service. It was widely and faithfully followed in those years. Marshall, was that shot taken at Austin?
The 5771 was the last F unit operating in regular passenger service. After the California Zephyr was discontinued, the Rio Grande ran the Rio Grande Zephyr, between Denver and Salt Lake City, UT, until April 1983, when Amtrak officially took over the trip. More and better info from others I'm sure! Doing a very dangerous thing, and going by memory at the moment! Would have to search through a few books for more exact dates etc......
Groan.... You are correct. Until the landslide that blocked the Grande tracks for a several weeks in '83, the RGZ ran all the way to SLC. IIRC, after the mudslide at Thistle, they cut service at Grand Junction. Again, I could be wrong, my books are downstairs, and I am too lazy to dig at this hour...:thumbs_down:
