Another day another dollar in BNSF Vancouver Wa Yard. She's a very freshly painted GP39-2. A real one, not a rebuilt GP30/35 nee ATSF I believe. I think Ph 1 even.
Trying not to run this one into the ground this week, but I just recently received a treasure trove of photos of my recently departed Grandpa, my favorite rail and the main reason behind my interest in trains 1:1 and smaller. This is him aboard SP narrow gauger 50-tonner #1.
That unit seems to be getting around! It's the same one Akirasho posted this morning in his Railfan Photos topic, then seen in Ohio.
An entire train of shiny tank cars with one scruffy MoPac hopper behind the locomotives. The hazardous material placards showed the number 1267 for petroleum crude. I did not know they transported much crude by rail around here anymore with all the pipe lines and such.
Don't believe I've posted this one before- One month ago, caught Montana Rail Link's "ML" (M-MISLAU3-23A) train coming through Clinton. SD&)ACe #4308, SD40-2XR #251 and SD45-2 #332:
1]Iowa Interstate's CRIC19 cresting a grade at Homestead. 2]CRIC19 at the feedmill in Homestead. 3]CRIC19 near F.W. Kent Park 4]UP Business Special at Beverly, IA. 5]CN's L563 coming by McLoud Place.
There was an invite to post SOMETHING proto here, even if old stuff. Okay, here is some old stuff. Violet, Texas ca. 1915. (Approximately 12 miles west of Corpus Christi) Members of Kircher family in field. Texas Mexican freight train in background pulled by Nacionales de Mexico (NdeM) locomotive #421, seized by creditors and used on Tex-Mex after NdeM defaulted on bonds. D. L. Kircher Family photos copied 1969 for KZTV-10 News feature story. Violet ca. 1915. Four members of Kircher family in field showing large cabbages produced on their land. In background is Texas Mexican passenger train pulled by NdeM #237, another seized locomotive. D. L. Kircher Family photos copied 1969 for KZTV-10 News feature story. These are among some 1500 photos from my career at KZTV I contributed and catalogued for Special Collections and Archives at Texas A&M Corpus Christi a little over a year ago. The library put almost 100 of my photos on their website, and I am posting them here from that site.
Night photo shot with three of the four ACes on ATN. Odenville AL, 0130 am. (If you look carefully you can see the big dipper!)
I see it! No. Wait. Those are dust specks on my screen... BTW- What did you use for lighting the scene?
ATSF had phase I GP39-2s, some of them are floating around Spokane on the locals and yard duty. BN had phase II units, plus all the rebuilt GP30/35 GP39E/M/Vs
I should clarify, I knew that ATSF had all 3 phases of the GP39-2. There was an article in MR about 20 years or so ago about kitbashing 3 versions. I was just surprised BNSF retained any phase 1s. PNWR has a number of the atsf ph 1s and there was a ph 3 unit kicking cars in Vancouver that same day wearing very very clean cub scout paint.
I must have missed this one somehow. What is "cub scout paint"? Is it reference to AT&SF blue and ywllow ("Bluebonnet") type colors?
