From atop Shed 10.7 on Marias Pass, a pair of 'Deuces nearly deafens me as they shove an empty east! The gray box on the anticlimber is for HelperLink, which allows cutting off on the fly:
That second unit almost has a pink hue. Is that from paint oxidizing? Or the light is just right? Boxcab E50
MRL SD45 Helper Set MRL SD45-2 331 heads a helper set just attached to a westbound at Livingstone on 10 Aug 2000. This mobile scrap heap was part of the helper set headed by 331. The cab has a DO NOT OCCUPY stencil - looking at it, would you want to! An eastbound helper set led by SD45-2 #308 at West End, nr Livingstone 10 Aug 1999.
I love to see these green's They don't run them in my area. Question? Do they always run the engine in reverse on the back when pushing? And do they hitch up the pusher engine on the fly or stop the whole train and startup again after the pusher is in place?:embarassed:
On Crawford hill we run 3 motors the east motor facing east the west motor facing west and the middle moter facing whichever way it ends up. To hook up to the train, the train has to be stoped. We couple up to the the rear of the train and hook the brake pipe or program the helper link, and run an air test of the helpers. On top of the hill we can get off on the fly if we have helper link, or stop the train and uncouple if we do not have helper link. Then we go to the other end to the motors and go back down the hill. Adam
SP SD40M-2 helpers SP SD40M-2 8611+8634 helpers on the rear of a westbound starting to descend Cajon 06 Oct 2001. SD90 8228 on the rear end of a loaded westbound coal descending Logan Hill towards Bill and a "wetty"on 17 Sept 2002 SD90 8233 on rear end of empties descending Logan Hill on 15 Sept 2002.
All are beautifull pictures. When i'm this summer in the US i hope to see a lot of trains and equipment and make a lot of photo's.
Eastbound stacks in the teeth of the 1.8% grade on Marias Pass' west slope, near Shed 5, get a lift from the Essex helpers, a pair of matched SD40-2's with HelperLink to allow cutting off on the fly:
