AND WE'RE BACK! Thanks Charlie for getting my thread starting privileges back! But now, I need to go figure out where I stored the pictures I've been meaning to use the last few weeks.
Today in Rosenberg, Texas. A "Brown Worm" on the left and an empty coal train heading back to Wyoming for another load. Both are waiting on the BNSF to cross the UP Sunset line.
My theory is they wanted something different from the Fs and Es out there pulling executive specials for various railroads. There seem to still be plenty of Fs and Es out there to use for this purpose but F40-PHs? Whatever spins their beanie propellers.
Not sure if they are loading or unloading tank cars here at the Miller brewing plant in Eden, NC. The covered hoppers I suspect are carrying grain in but the tankers I don't know. They also bottle Coors here so maybe it is beer from Colorado?
I am certain that cost of building and some maintenance headaches were what killed such diesel designs. But they certainly had character, which the boxes of today have not.
That's a GMDH-1, one of four of this diesel-hydraulic model built by GMDD in London between 1956 and 1959. I've had the pleasure of admiring one in person at the science and technology museum (in a part of the facility not normally open to the public). They pretty stock GMD models (two of either the 71 or 110 engines). The model was not mass-produced. I have no idea how it ended up in Brazil, but the story should be interesting!
Gorgeous locomotive. Is it one of the original GE Little Joes? The photo date concerns me that it may no longer exist. Though what's 22 years in the life of a well-maintained juice-jack?
I can't read Portuguese but on this web site it says something about Russia so I am assuming that it was part of Stalin's order that got canceled. http://vfco.brazilia.jor.br/Fepasa-...4-locomotiva-Russa-6454-janela-alterada.shtml
The translation comes out: «Russian Locomotive No. 6454," Engineer Jayme Cintra "- the same Midwestern No. 80 - with the modified windows. "Why is it that the reformed / changed? "I remember you showed me a picture of a clash between an Vanderlea and Russian at the station of Santa Gertrudes. Will she? "This picture was taken in the courtyard of Campinas in 4 Mar. 1993 aboard the train PP1 - São Paulo - Panorama, starting Sao Paulo at 8:10 a.m.".
I didn't know you could read Portuguese. (Yah, just copy and past into one of the on like translate pages. Back in the old days we had to get a paper dictionary and try to figure it out.)
GMDH-1 #600 SN A1713 was built in 09/1958 as a demonstrator. It was sold to Brazil as RFFSA #600, and later became Rio Grande Do Sul #6031. It has been reported as scrapped.
Not one of the twelve MILW units. Eleven scrapped at Purdy & Co in Western Washington. Number twelve on display at Deer Lodge, Montana.
