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    Soaring high over the white waters of the Fish Creek, MRL's Silver Cloud business train crawls West with a train full of passengers. Dennis Washington put on a show for a business partners' family reunion, as they would ride from Missoula to Sandpoint.

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  3. Hardcoaler

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    Oh cool, a Griswold rotating stop sign grade crossing signal. :love: It's missing it's stop sign, but here's one in action. Griswold was headquartered in MN, so their signals were most common in the midwest.

     
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    July 1982 at Hagerstown MD, BO GP-40 4033, later CSX 6608.

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    I somehow also shot the 6608 at Montgomery AL in March 1990.

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  5. Point353

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    Two more for you.

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  6. r_i_straw

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    They used to get all dressed up to go to a Texas BBQ. Sugar Land Tower 114 on the right where the IGN (Missouri Pacific) crossed the T&NO (SP).
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    Ah, the good ol' days before high-fructose corn syrup.
     
  8. Mike VE2TRV

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    That's beyond cool! :)

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    Looks like she has lots of fans there... more lovers of shiny things! :D
     
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    Imperial Sugar used to ship tank cars full of liquid cane sugar to the Coka-Cola bottling plants. One of their best customers.
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  10. Mike VE2TRV

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    Mmmmm... Pure liquidy Texas refined sweetness! :)

    That's a great photo. The structure around it gives some good modeling ideas. (y)
     
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  15. Mike VE2TRV

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    That's what a Pennsy E8 set should look like! Even better would be the music lines...:love:
     
  16. Doug Gosha

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    Yup, used to see all kinds of them 'round these parts.

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    Yes, looks like the Impala trim level to me, too. Wheel covers gone.

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    Except for the missing skirts.

    :D

    Doug
     
  19. BNSF FAN

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    Near Bradford PA - July 1, 2003 - Forgot I had this picture. Might make a good project for one of my non operational Atlas GP's :D
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  20. Mike VE2TRV

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    For a moment I had a flashback on the Big Pine Lumber Co GP9 that I had back in the 1970s.:ROFLMAO:
     

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