About fifteen years ago, the railroad museum in Snoqualmie, Washington refurbished their ex-Great Northern ballast regulator:
Despite saying Wisconsin & Southern on it's side, this little fella was in the KCS yard in Vicksburg MS on Monday 08-22-2022. Sure not a road name I expected to catch on any MoW equipment there.
Using a heavy-duty leaf blowers to unclog the switches... hmmm... He could soup up his blower and use it as a jet pack.
Yesterday I caught part of this mixed heading east with a load of MOW equipment. Glendive has a MOW equipment shop, which I am sure was being used to do maintenance on these things,
07/03/1984 at Rondout, IL, MILW x452. 01/07/1975 at Barrington, IL, EJ&E 8785 and friend, by teenage Hardcoaler armed with a Kodak Instamatic 126, good ol' square format point-and-shoot photography.
A weary, owl-eyed PRR MP54 combine as modified long ago for wire train service, found at Harrisburg, PA on 04/03/1989. It's Amtrak car number 495200 and it carries a pantograph, third-rail shoes and windowed cupola.
Odd and a half, plus tax... More than likely a single cylinder under the floor, driving just one cranked axle. I don't think tractive effort was a consideration here... Another oddball! Just as interesting are the tower cars behind it.
