This depot in Clinton, Oklahoma was built in the early 1900s by the Clinton & Oklahoma Western. It was eventually absorbed into the ATSF.
More wet - and smoky - stuff: MLW C630M taking part in the diesel parade, all shiny in the rain, extra flags flying,white classification lights lit, September 2015. And, of course, doing the Alco thing. Smoke! It's a great feeling having that big bruiser cruise slowly by, the only one in the parade that made the ground shake. No wonder trains are addictive!
Caught yesterday on the former ACL main in Marion, SC at the Pee Dee River bridge is Amtrak's Palmetto bound for New York City.
A few years ago I was once again at Radnor, Montana. This time BNSF ES44C4 #7186 raced past me with her Q-CHCSSE:
East Penn Railroad usually handles traffic with their leased GP38-3. However, last Tuesday I caught the ex-Susquehanna GP18 leading the return leg of the transfer run to NS' Spring ST yard in Reading PA at the Shearer's Lane and Vinemont RD grade crossings. It's nice to see a 60 year old engine at work.
Hytec, it still wears the same number as it did on NYS&W. IIRC, the Susquehanna always numbered MU equipped locomotives with even numbers. Hence the GP18's wore 1800, 1802, & 1804.
No longer a fan of professional sports, except minor league hockey, I had to Google that to get the reference.
Interesting AAR marks. Also see some spark arrestors which seem a bit different. Would love to have heard that old 567B at work!
Again. IIRC, the prime mover was rebuilt with 645 power assemblies by the NYS&W, not sure what that would do to the exhaust note. I don't know if both units were online. I'd have thought either alone was able to handle the 11 loads, and track speed is pretty low, so I didn't get a great sonic experience despite the low clouds.
Yes, so nice! I'd wondered what happened to the Susie-Q's GP-18s. I rode behind the 1804 on a fantrip in June 1982. This first picture was taken at the road's engine terminal at Little Ferry, NJ and the second at the then-current end of the line at Butler, NJ. This was of course before NYS&W's total rebirth in the mid-80s.
Nice pictures. It looks like there's a running RS1 in there also. I'm glad you showed the spark arrestors that Boxcab had commented on. I had a friend who lived in Little Ferry, he said that when it froze they'd skate on the ice in the bottom of the turntable pit.
My apartment was near Butler, just west of town on the abandoned NYS&W main line. Within two years of my move south to AL, rebuilding of the NYS&W began and I was astonished that such a thing was underway.