Happy weekend. A little over a week ago while driving, I encountered a weather related traffic jam at Gastonia NC (Just outside Charlotte). Figured it would be a good time to exit and look for some coffee. Got a little bonus with my coffee when I found this cool GERX unit parked near the Amtrak station there. it had a string of beat up gons behind it and a very interesting flat that looks to be the parking spot for the excavator they were using to pick up ties. Looked pretty neat to me.
Thirty plus years ago, I caught the Washington Central switching Twin City Foods cannery in Ellensburg, Washington. All of the white buildings in bright summery sunshine knocked my camera for a loop:
Looks cool for me too. That "launch ramp" on the flat is probably climbed onto or off of using the excavator's arm, like climbing onto a flatbed truck without a ramp. I've seen that maneuver performed and its both fascinating and precarious at the same time. One wonders how the operator manages to balance his machine like that...
CP 364 east at Minot East, overcast blue hour: CP 199 west, DPU: Q heritage on a BNSF westbound grainer at blue hour:
Are there just single examples of BNSF's legacy covered hoppers. i.e. is there just one CB&Q? They are really neat. I'm not aware of other Class Is doing anything like that.
They made a number of each or the logo's applied to I think 10 cars per logo?? Just to keep ownership of the logo's. Here'a zoom shot from my recent video of this freight being crawled into the yard at SLOW speed yesterday. The heat plume from the unit is prevalent.
I have wondered who decided to be the first trying such a maneuver. I wonder how much stress it puts on the equipment, metal and hydraulics?
I've been wanting to get some photos of the "foreign" power that's often found rolling past our train station/clubhouse along the NS mainline in lovely Sebring, Ohio. Here you can see NS 1034 leading CN 2229 and 3814 eastbound toward Pittsburgh. I was bummed that a half hour later I was busy with bookeeping and missed getting a shot of the visiting UP power. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
They're a railroad track maintenance contractor, Georgetown Rail Equipment Company. Fun Fact: when you see railway equipment ending in an X, you know that it's privately owned, not railroad owned.
Cool stuff! (Psst, nobody tell 'em I'm using Burlington Route logo on some of my railcars. CB&Q rules!)
I just uploaded a better quality scan. The colors still aren't quite right, but the image is a bit sharper.
