UP ES44AH-T4C 2762, ES44AC 5320 brings M338 through Farley, IA with storms looming in the distance. June 24, 2020 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Just some random SP slides here. The 8560 is mu'd with SOU power near 32nd St. in Birmingham, AL, passing Sloss Furnace [Nov. 1985], the 5113 is at the NS yard in Irondale, AL [May 1989] and the 9712 is at the station in Tucumcari, NM [June 1997].
SP 5113 later became UP 197: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/16419/up0197.jpg Later still, UP 197 underwent a radical transformation emerging as genset loco UPY 2637: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/132142/DSC_0056_2697.JPG
SP 8560, after working as a lease unit for a while, ended up in Brazil, seen here in the livery of the América Latina Logística rail line: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/133250/9515.jpg
It's quite remarkable to see how many lives certain locos (or parts of them, at least) can end up having.
Three random EMD SW's here. East Cooper & Berkeley 2002 is an SW-1001 at Knoxville, TN in January 1978. She's brand new and on her way from EMD to work near Charleston, SC. Terminal Alabama State Docks 682 is an SW-1500, seen in April 1984 at Mobile. It looks like they're trying to get sister unit 681 started. Lastly is West Virginia Northern 52, an SW-1200 at Tunnelton, WV in October 1995. She'll haul tourists for a few more years until the line is shut down and torn up.
WM 3798 was the last unit in Western Maryland paint operating on CSX. I saw it in Montgomery, AL on a Sunday night in November 1987 in poor light, so detoured past the engine terminal on my way to work the following morning and was rewarded. As seen in the bottom image, the same unit somehow found its way into my viewfinder 3-1/2 years later in Gaston, SC, renumbered to the 6573. It's hard to see it on the 6573, but someone stenciled "Last Western Maryland Locomotive" just ahead of the number on the side of the cab.
Whaaaaat?! I've never seen anything like that before. Kudos to the Engineers that put that together. I wonder if they run on very light rail?
Aki, I've never saw 4710 before, and my backyard was hard against the CSX NO&M Division for 23 years. Regards Brazilian Bigfoot, the original SD-40 was nicknamed "Little Kid With Big Tennis Shoes." But that Brazilian beasty puts that baby to shame. Thanks for a great photo.
After retiring from CSX, the 3798/6573 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment and lives on as Indiana Southern 4041:
South Carolina Public Railways is now known as Palmetto Railways and EC&B 2002 has become Palmetto Railways 1002.
