Hershey, PA, February 27, 2022. The four units of NS 201 pass the power and shoving platform of H24, which is waiting to return to work on Monday.
NS 9894 leads BNSF 3079 passes through Sebring, Ohio as it heads eastbound toward Pittsburgh at 8:10 pm on June 14, 2022. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Doh! Sorry folks. Yup. I was definitely not thinking clearly... or something. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Southbound NS 6647 running long hood forward leads UP 9412 and a trainload of powder river coal at Whiteside GA December 8, 1990
Looks like I can see a low nose. Was it rebuilt from a high nose, which might have came with controls for long hood operation?
GP-60 7118 northbound with friend at Blythewood, SC 05/08/2019. NS serves a new industrial park nearby with a lumber yard and plastic film plant.
Good eye, it is a low nose unit. With the introduction of the SD50, EMD discontinued offering the high nose even though NS wanted it. Despite the high nose being discontinued, NS still continued ordering their units set up to run long hood forward though the better part of the SD60 production runs. If you look close at this SD60, you can see the F near the steps indicating that is the front of the unit. One thing I'm not sure of but I think was that these units had the dual control stands in the cab so they could actually be operated in either direction and still have the engineer in the correct position.
A rough looking ex N&W GP35 is trailing as it departs Chattanooga TN on a dreary December day in 1989
Wow, cool shot of a hard working GP-35! Lacking dynamic brakes, this N&W unit caught my attention and it has quite a story. It's a former Wabash unit, the 547. Ends up that she was the last new unit delivered to Wabash before the merger with N&W and after a residency at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO, now works for Watco as WMAX their #3533! You captured a very special locomotive that day.