Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    A B40-8, former Cotton Belt 8048, sandwiched between two more modern GEs in Hearne back in 2012.
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  2. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    A couple of the folk making it work..... PIC_0003.JPG PIC_0009.JPG
     
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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Rosenberg, Texas. September 2011.
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  4. Akirasho

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    oooops! double post!

    how about another pic!

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  6. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    "Double or Nothin'"
    A double grain load attacks the .66% grade leaving Minot, ND on the BNSF Glasgow Sub at MP 12.4. Some 230 loads and 3x3x0 power kept the 30,000+ tons moving.

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  7. Hardcoaler

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    A fine shot! I had no idea that trains of that weight were operated. :eek: Golly, that's what, 2-1/2 to 3 Miles of train?!
     
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  8. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    13,000+ feet!
     
  9. Point353

    Point353 TrainBoard Member

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    The running days of the 1202 may be behind it now:

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    Front Range made these in HO scale, but they need a little help to look more realistic. I modified a couple of them a few years ago. Mask Island made Southern decals for these cars right around the time I finished my models, so that's what I used.
     
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  11. Point353

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    CSX 8840 now wears the latest YN3b "boxcar" logo paint scheme:

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  12. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    The new property owners jacked the rent up so high on the warehouse that the business owner just walked away from it all. We offered to let him store the locomotive behind the fence where we are keeping our museum collection but he never took us up on it. Then the vandals and thieves moved in and stripped it of all the copper.
     
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  13. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Sad! That 8840 is definitely got some Conrail heritage, with those Flexicoil trucks...
     
  14. Akirasho

    Akirasho TrainBoard Member

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  15. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Apparently a bunch of ex-CR Deuces are still roaming around on CSX!
     
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  16. Point353

    Point353 TrainBoard Member

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    Here is the 8840 as it looked back in its days of working for CR as the 6465:

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    CR 6409, the unit behind 6465, eventually became NS 3357:

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    An uncommon sight to see an all BNSF grain train on the CN.

    BNSF Grain Train westbound at Earlville.
    CN Dubuque Sub.
    August 19, 2020


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  18. SP 9811

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    SP 8275 Woodford CF.jpg
    At Woodford, Tunnel Motors roll their train west through the Tehachapi's.
     
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    Two "Fallen Flags"-Southern Pacific and Consolidated Freightways.
     
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    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Bummer. :(
     

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