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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Neat catch! What confuses me is NS spent a pile of cash to rebuild these units from DC to AC, and a couple years later, sells them? The experiment wasn't worth it?
     
  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    From what I can find, this unit was a one of a kind. https://railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=38435
     
  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Speaking of "Camp Cars" or "Gang Cars" used for maintenance of way workers, here is a Texas & New Orleans work train parked on a siding in Sugar Land in 1953.
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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    At least one of the two tank cars would be water. I wonder if both are water? Or if one carries fuel (kerosene) for the camp cars?
     
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  5. MetraMan01

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    I don’t know but that makes sense. Water up by where the people are bunked and probably cooking and then keeping the fuel separated by a few cars.


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  6. Point353

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    T&NO, San Antonio, TX in 1960

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  7. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Just a ho-hum shot at the old GN yard at first light. Insert westbound here...

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    Oh, here's the westbound:

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  8. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    "Golden" shot right there!:love:
     
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  10. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Not every day you get your train autographed by Mark Twain!

    Cool photo.:cool:
     
  11. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Wow, hopefully that was saved!
     
  12. Point353

    Point353 TrainBoard Member

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  13. Hardcoaler

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    I saw this postcard and had never heard of the EP&SW. Did a bit of research to find that it was the El Paso & Southwestern with lines in TX, NM, AZ and Mexico. Douglas is very close to the Mexican border. Built in 1913, the station still stands as the city's police station. I'm uncertain if tracks remain today. The road was leased by the SP in 1924.

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  14. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    And still looking as good as ever:

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    The word "DEPOT" is still up there.
     
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  15. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Oh wow, that is beautiful! Thanks for finding this. (y)
     
  16. BNSF FAN

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    Kind of like this paint scheme - Saginaw TX Jan. 15, 2023
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  17. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Nice catch! Agreed -- they look sharp. There's at least one rolling around in the Carolinas right now.
     
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  18. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    So do I. It's a little like dazzle camouflage - it was easy to see the radiators marking it as an SD70ACe, but it took me a while for my visual DSP brought the cab's nose out of the painted pattern.o_O

    Totally cool!:cool:
     
  19. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Locals here are calling them "Zebra's"!;)
     
  20. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    A westbound V-train does some work in the old GN yard in Minot on a crisp afternoon with temps in the single digits, with the head end at CP2030, and authorized multiple changes of direction there and at Soo Tower.

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    While enroute to Fargo for a high school JROTC competition, we bagged Amtrak 7, at least 2 hours late, a few miles west of Devils Lake, a location only seen in daylight in the summer, when the train is on time.

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