Ya got me all steamed up! Plus a Santa Fe 44-tonner! Want a study in contrasts? Park that next to an FP45... Keep'em coming, @Point353 !
Since you are feeling steamy Mike...... Here's a serving of the N&W 611 northbound across Tenn Bridge - Chattanooga TN - Late 80's And a side of N&W 1218 - Chattanooga TN - Late 80's
Oooh... nice Pioneer Zephyr! To think it's 25 years old in this photo and it's so clean and shiny... I love shiny things... One of my co-workers and her family went to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and saw this one in person. She proudly showed me a photo of the power car... and was floored when I said "Pioneer Zephyr!" "You know this one?!?!" But it's still shiny...
September 1981, the Allentown PA hump. That's CR slug 1119, former PRR RSD-12 8657, rebuilt into a slug by CR at Collinwood OH in May 1979. I wanted to get a better view of the slug from the side, but we were pretty deep into the property and didn't want to press our luck by getting closer. I'm uncertain whether Allentown's hump remains or not; NS owns it today.
Central Montana Railway, Sage Creek Trestle, Danvers, Montana EMD GP9 - CMR 1814 High Plains and Lonely Trains: Central Montana Rail Extra 1814 East looks insignificant on the 1,698 foot long Sage Creek Trestle, just west of Danvers, Mont. Operating on the former Milwaukee Road's legendary Rocky Mountain Division, the CMR was established in 1985 to serve the small farming communities of the region. In 2011, one of the line's largest bridges was damaged in a flood and since then freight traffic has all but dried up.
Looks like Z scale. Good looking plastic cows down there... At that height, anything looks insignificant. Except the height... Bear Grylls, in addition to his steel thingies, also possesses several kinds of crazy for climbing that.
Ahh, the old pin-pullers shed. Later the MT6 slugs had their Trimount trucks swapped for EMD trucks. I always remember them hooked up to SD38's, I think CR's only SD38's and U23C's were slug mothers and humpers. Some chatter I've copied off the radio leads me to believe the hump might be shut down. If I get ambitious in December, I might take a ride over there and see. The hump at Enola is worked with remote units.
