@BuddyBurton: you sure hang out with some pretty ladies like 261... I like the way you use lighting in your photos. This one's beautiful. One might even say gold!
From the mid-1970s, C&NW 420 leads a westbound "scoot" out of Barrington, IL. The 420 was originally the 4087C, built 1949. The 420 has had a complex history after leaving the C&NW's roster and serving New Jersey Transit. It now resides at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, heavily vandalized and having recently been sold by the United Railroad Historical Society [URHS] of New Jersey from bankrupt Iowa Pacific storage in MS! This photo Courtesy of URHS
Thank you so much! I find as I develop my style, I enjoy glint shots more and more. Mostly because the light I have didn't work with the train I had available!
As delivered, the Ribsides were friction bearing. I do not recall if at least some of these were upgraded to roller bearings. I would need to do some digging. Later orders- Riveted side had conversions. And the final welded side had RB. Yes. There were two truck styles. This one is the so-called "straight" frame. The last style was the "drop" frame.
Yeah, that's crazy isn't it? The SLRG was one of the Iowa Pacific's roads, so was wrapped up in the mess of Iowa Pacific's bankruptcy. I'll bet here's a story somewhere about how the Fs got to MS, but I haven't found it.
High-contrast, monochrome glint in downtown Minot. Both shots are within a 1/4 mile of each other, at opposite ends of the day.
A few interesting units in the Pumpkin Patch this morning, here a nicely re-lettered GECX, A smidgen of fire damage here, And a CN ACe, which I haven't seen too many of,
From about 1978 at Barrington, IL, C&O wood-sheathed caboose 90803 has arrived in Barrington, IL to become part of a restaurant in the relocated C&NW depot.
SD70M-2, the ACe's DC brother. CN bought a whole gaggle of them. CN actually didn't get any EMD AC locos until they purchased four of the SD70ACe-P6 prototypes (which explains partly why they stuck to DC - the straight ACes had one inverter bank per truck, while the P6s had one inverter bank per axle, like GE - not nice if one traction motor acts up and one has to cut the whole truck off to get it out of the circuit and lose half one's power and half of the tractive effort).
A couple of experimental nighttime photos, using my cell phone! Using only the available light from the lights overhead.
Something about that shot of those boxcars is just really cool, Just grabs your attention. Excellent work Hemi!!!!
From exactly 38 years ago today in 1984, SCL 511 with its original number and nose herald works Montgomery, AL. The SBD soon renumbered these into their 2500-2555 series.
Thinking of what happens when you break open Pillsbury Grands refrigerated biscuits, someone ought to model one of these with a bulging carbody and dough oozing out the hatchways.