New owner is the Port. Primary lessor is USM, and NOAA will sub-lease one floor from USM. Naval Oceanography will have some offices as well, and there will even be spaces for private sector marine technology start ups. I'm angling for an office that faces the KCS road crossing.
I really like those military-themed units. The people that they represent are those that serve and stand between us and all the bad actors in the world.
I was driving along Highway 6 outside of Hearne on my way to the Armadillo Ranch yesterday when I had to do a U turn and chase this down.
Kittanning Point was on the east end of Horseshoe Curve. The Kittanning Run Railroad met the mainline at the left. A signal bridge remains today located where we see the most distant one and the main is three tracks. All else is long gone. The station is thought to have survived into the late 1930s.
It probably looks just fine to the RPM group who seem to prefer everything as heavily weathered as possible.
I am old enough to recall that once upon a time cars did not look like scrap yard refugees. Thus I do not care much for the weather everything to look like it was just unearthed from being buried a fifty years ago appearance. Cars used to be proud advertising symbols. Now just almost an inconvenience to some owners. And then we have the out-of-control criminals of today trashing them daily.
Yikes, showing my age here -- it's been a fixture forever. Sure enough, it's gone. I wonder if it was an intermediate signal? NS has removed many of these. This image contains it, shot 10/18/1994. View attachment upload_2021-4-26_9-32-12.png
June 19, 2002 a friend was driving home from work and noticed something unusual. UP 949 in freight service. The train was sitting under the I 45 overpass in Spring, TX just north of Houston. Al Dykes photo
Bucket list! I've got 4 drones and between them 12 batteries with an average flight time of 25 minutes. I want to drain all of them at the Curve!!!
Yup, with new cab control stands, AR10 alternator and -2 electrical so basically a GP38-2 with A-1-A trucks. Easier to maintain that way.
UP 949 has led a varied existence. Originally built in 1955 as UP E9 949, it was retired and sold in 1972 to Precision National, who then sold it to CNW, where it became 511 and worked in Chicago area commuter service. Later in became RTA/Metra 511. It was retired in 1989 and sold to Kasten Railcar, who in turn sold it to original owner UP. UP returned the unit to service as 949. As Yogi Berra said, it's déjà vu all over again.