Rent-A-Wreck

Paducah KY - 1991

 

Paducah KY - 1991

 

Sad...


Cleaned and painted!!

Funny thing, Walthers made the "Bandit" scheme of the old photo in Milw colors!

 

Birmingham AL - 12/31/2000

 

EMD 200 at Greenwood SC, 02/01/1997. This unit has a long history. Rock Island GP-40-2 3004 > GO Transit 725 > EMDX 200 > LPPX (Locomotive Leasing Partners) 3203 > WPRR (Willamette and Pacific) 3303

 

Kennesaw GA - Feb. 2003

 

Nice lookin' paint scheme on those for a leaser.

But why does this remind me of the Railroad of New Jersey, I think it was?

Or Central of New Jersey....?

 

Now that you mention it, that makes sense. Must be the two diagonal stripes:

 

That came to be known as the CNJ's "Coast Guard" paint scheme.

 

THAT is a nice-looking Alco!

Doug

 

Not a leaser, but from February 2016 at Beaumont SC, NS SD90MAC 7229, former UP 3481 and UP 8015.

 

I couldn't find a WPRR or PNWR GP40 numbered 3302. They had a SD40-2MPR, an SD40 with HTC trucks numbered 3300 but it's been gone awhile. There is also a 3002, maybe the numbers got combined? WPRR, now PNWR, numbers their locos with the HP in 100s as the first two digits. So 3300 had 3300 hp and a 2300 hp GP39-2 will be numbered 23xx. Where any GP40s turned up to 3300hp?

 

I was just going by what I found on an Internet page somewhere, which was probably wrong. Maybe someone here knows.

 

FURX GP-38-2 5515 at Lugoff, SC in service with CSX. [10/18/2014]

 

That's an interesting patch job, just enough!

They left the whiskers though!

 

They're paid to patch 'em, not to shave 'em.