I think people are talking about two different areas. The panel/door/hatch under the number on the side of the cab is from another "yellow" locomotive in my opinion. The door farther back on the cab side looks normal. The angled front of the cab is probably a reflection issue.
The nose door is the same color as the rest of the unit. The sunset made it look different. The panel under the cab(engineer-side) came from parts off of a locomotive (I assume). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This is the one I am looking at. It is definitely not the same color as the rest of the car body. The nose stuff I agree is just lighting.
Today's little chase of Ferromex 4050 on CP 574. https://blog.buddyburtonphoto.com/2019/04/ferromex-4050-south.html
The NYS&W sure faded from discussions, quickly, some years back. I have no idea what condition they are in these days?
Sigh. My apartment was located adjacent to the long-abandoned NYS&W main when I lived in NJ. Two years after I moved to a new job a thousand miles away, the NYS&W was rebuilt and stack trains were rolling past my old place. I never got to see the new Susie-Q.
I've wondered about that very question and do not know the answer. In carving up CR, in 1997 NS and CSX jointly acquired the NYS&W's properties so as to thwart anyone new from entering into regional competition. The NYS&W remains as an operating entity however and the NYS&W main shows on its system map (the road operates branches in NY as well), but I just don't know what might operate on the main. The former Erie main is owned by NS is probably a better route and is underutilized, so I don't see a need for the NYS&W main in this era. But who knows. It's be great if a knowledgeable TrainBoard member can bring us up to date.
From 10/23/1996, a westbound pig train climbs past Dalies, NM on the former Santa Fe transcon. The line to Albuquerque is to the left.
Thanks guys. I'm convinced that you can't take a bad picture out west. My wife and I made three trips to CO, AZ and NM in the mid-90s, following Route 66 where we could. We just couldn't get enough of it all.
"From Epping on Easter" Eastbound U-EPPCXP 040T (Bakken crude oil originating at Epping ND) eases downgrade along Burdick Expy in Minot with an eastern visitor leading--a veteran C40-8W. A KCS Retro Belle is in the middle with more common BNSF power trailing.
Niiice photo Hemi! As an easterner, I see that a growing number of CSX locomotive numberboards are in need of replacement. We see another example with CSX 7882.
