I am so sorry for last week. We were headed to Redondo Beach for my 6 year old's dance comp and got slammed in a pollen nightmare as we drove down. I felt like I had the flu. Between that and just dealing with everyone in a hotel room, I forgot to start the thread. Hopefully that means everyone has 2 weeks worth of pictures Here's a picture of the CSRM's Winton 201. The Diesel that started it all.
Here are a couple from this week. Lucky to live in a town where we have a busy mainline. BNSF 8332 and 6612 powering up with a grain train at Metro Jct.: BNSF 5179, CREX 1316, and BNSF 7674 at Ponder, Tx with a tank train: BNSF 8332 and NS 9019 with a train full of empty old school hoppers: BNSF 9313 and KCS 4173 pull off the BNSF main and onto the KCS Dallas sub at Metro Jct. with a frack sand train of two bays: Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
That's a neat shot. Seeing a separate exhaust stack for each cylinder, that must have sounded mighty sweet.
On Wednesday, I caught CN 2987 working at NS's Hayne Yard at Spartanburg, SC. She's a new Tier 4 ES44AC built October 2017.
They were older coal three bays in the brown, some with rotary ends, and a few black ones thrown in. Not pushing other websites, but if you go to Youtube and look up my page tx66ronharris you can see a video of the train and others I post regularly. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
My desktop computer died yesterday after chugging along for over 10 years. So, I went out and got a new one. Been checking out all the photo files that I transferred over from my backup drive. Found this one so decided to post it. Just a beat up old switch stand.
Yesterday on the way to Miles City, in the rain, caught this V train eastbound along the Yellowstone. And here's how close to the tracks I had to sit at the fairgrounds there! Wife has a flea market she sets up at there, and I will be there again tomorrow, and may even catch a good view of a train! No trains in the yard today, so here sits the BN rotary, and from an often unviewed angle. And lastly, another GP.
Yes, the Winton is kept in the Sacramento Locomotive Works in the Engine shop. It was found rusting away in a lot in Oakland some years back. The Engine shop is in reasonable shape (lots of famous pictures of it on the internet of various SP diesels lined up for GRIP upgrades from the 80s. Now, the Boiler shop which is on the other side of the transfer table, that's a different story. It's roof is more of a theory than an actual thing. But in either case, the Winton is protected. I saw it on the member shop tour last year.
That's on the list, but as with everything, that requires time, volunteers and money. There current focus is to keep the show worthy stuff in good shape, repair the Boiler shop and then once that's in usable shape, really put together their machine shop and repair facilities. Once they have the building in better shape, they have a wheel lathe capable of turning large steam drivers along with other major equipment, they hope to be able to support many different heritage operations across the west. That will get them money to restore more equipment...and a shop to do the restoring in.
So, just an FYI, 2987 is what's called a Tier 4 credit unit. It doesn't meet Tier 4, it is a Tier 3 unit, they were allowed to make one Tier 3 unit for every Tier 4 units they sold. These units are called Tier 4 credit units. Actual Tier 4 units have very different long hoods and much larger radiators and are labeled ET44AC.
Russel, Thanks for posting the switchstand pic. For modeling purposes, pictures like it are pure gold! Even with the internet is can be difficult to find answers to questions like "What does a switchstand on a lightly used siding switch look like?" George V.