See train, drive on paralleling highway for miles to get ahead, turn, park, run up highway bridge ..... and miss the sot by 30 Seconds.
I liked Amtrak's F40's (?) when I first saw them, thinking they looked like a sort of new generation squared off F. I like them even more now that they've been displaced by monocoque P42s which I've never quite warmed to. Nice shot - thanks for posting!
I keep thinking something seems missing from the F40PH. Then I realize, no ditch lights. They started appearing about that time though.
I never liked those P42s - the first time I saw one, the first thing that came to mind was "Tholian" (the Star Trek geek in me is showing...). The F40 and their ilk have much more style - their FP45 parentage shows. And I really like the FP45. But the styling mindset of recent years is not the same as it was 40, 50 or 60 years ago. The builders had their own stylists and designers (Kuhler, Loewy, and their kin), and EMD had the pool of designers at GM to fish for ideas. The Es and Fs used automotive-style design as selling points. Alco had Patten, an industrial designer for GE, to design the lines of the FA and PA series. Those were locomotives with style, their looks exuded power and speed and ruggedness. A P42 is just a box.
Yessir! I liked them as a kid and still linger over photos of them today. Amtrak's similarly-styled SDP40Fs's looked good too and I think it's neat that Kato has chosen to do these in N Scale.
You got that right. The E and F units were the pioneers of the cab design. The first E units, for B&O and ATSF were gorgeous - likewise the TAs built for the Rock Island. But I'm an Alco PA fan! It's a shame CN never bit the lure of the two demos - PAs would have looked absolutely grand in their 1950s passenger scheme, with a nice long line of similarly painted heavyweight passenger cars trailing behind...
Three interlocking towers in Alabama: Birmingham - 13th Street (forget if was SOU or L&N), November 1985 (since razed): Montgomery - Bell Street (GM&O), June 1984 (since razed): Athens, AL (L&N), April 1990 (status unknown):
Wow... now that's taking the F59PHI style to the next level! And those things are long! And they look way better than a P42...
Zooming in on the cab of the locomotive above you can barely make out "Carolina Rail Services". And here is the locomotive when it was operating in that service.
Another tower, along the commuter line in Montreal West: Forgive the photo quality, it's a ride-by shot through a raindrop-spattered dirty window on a commuter coach. Also being tossed about like on mikelhh's bakery line...
What would be the name of this location? It has me wondering if I have a train order copied there, in my collection.
Three former Erie towers. I don't know the status of these in this era. SF Tower @ Suffern, NY - June 1980. SF was very tired. That phone pole prop in the rear kept the tower from toppling over. WJ Tower @ Ridgewood, NJ - July 1982. What a place to spot the phone pole! WC Tower at Waldwick, NJ - July 1982. I have an old cast metal N Scale kit of this tower on my road. It's a fine little kit.
Speaking of aging switchers, former Lehigh Valley SW-8 268 still working as ADM 8682 in Kershaw, SC, April 2014:
All I know is that it's at the junction of the CPR Westmount and Vaudreuil Subdivisions, and a few others (the St-Luc yard is not far north of there). The Westmount Sub is the one that goes to the former Windsor Station (now Lucien L'Allier station and our hockey team's rink, plus a few shops and restaurants).
