I may have posted these before..so my apologies.. These are RCL's...currently owned by CANAC , (www.CANAC.com) a private industrial railgroup...they switch out a local plant here in town. They were originally produced by CN, They are nicknamed "SWEEPS" CN made them by combining a SWitcher and a gEEP.
Parkdale on the old Tennessee Pass line, IIRC? Harold, that ACR sure has some SP lineage showing, eh? Concil Bluffs, IA, Iowa Interstate:
Rarus Railway took over the former Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway on May 1, 1985. The line was built by the BA&P in the 1890s. It was electrified from 1913 to 1967, and passengers were carried until April 1955. The BA&P property was transferred to the State of Montana in 1985 and subsequently purchased by Rarus from the State in 1990. RARW operates freight service from a connection with BNSF at Butte to Anaconda., MT (25.7 miles). Traffic includes scrap, copper slag, and copper concentrates. In June they start they're new tourist train operations. heres a link for that and has more pics. Copper King Express
RailAmerica/Dallas, Garland, & Northeastern/ CEFX switcher RailAmerica/DGNO GP38-3 RailAmerica/NECR GP38-2 on the DGNO And to think, this stuff is just outside the back door to my office.
Variety is a spice of life. </font>[/QUOTE]Well, if we were back in the 1950's, 1960's, with all the proudly painted stuff so fondly recalled, I could agree. That was real variety. But this unrepainted stuff that looks like one step from the scrappers torch. The restencilled, whose initials are those, who the heck owns this clunker stuff? It's just boring. Like railroad management throughout most of North America...... Boxcab E50
Thanks to an early morning icestorm, the roads were treacherous to the point of impassability without studded tires this day in Max, ND.. Dakota, Missouri Valley Western:
