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  3. Mike VE2TRV

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    Wow! Nice find!:cool:

    The only other road to get FP45s brand new.
     
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    MN 1967

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    That's an odd set-up....o_O
    Two switchers, tank car, and a passenger car?
     
  8. Mike VE2TRV

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    Could be the setup of an railroad version of a classic joke:

    Two switchers, tank car, and a passenger car roll into a yard... :p
     
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    SD40T-2 Mojave yard, Mojave CA
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    SD45T-2 Mojave CA
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    Nice. '64 Chevy at left.

    Doug
     
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    I STILL say the SD45s and derivatives were BIG engines!

    :D

    Doug
     
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    CSX/SBD SD-45 8932, former SCL 2032. Fairmont GA, 12/22/1987.

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    SBD SD-45 2020, former SCL 2020. Montgomery AL, 12/1984. It may have been sold to the SP, not sure.

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  15. Mike VE2TRV

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    The SD45's were the railroad equivalent of the 1960s muscle cars. Big engines, lots of power, and not to forget, lots of noise!:D

    Nothing like the sound of 20 cylinders (total 12,900 cu.in.) roaring at full throttle!:)
     
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  18. Hardcoaler

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    Well put and I so miss the intensity of sound and feel as hard-working units pass by in this modern era. Everything sounds rather muted today.

    April 1990, Montgomery AL

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    MN 1979

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