DROOOOL!!! Love the amount of Green! Got really drooling when the 2800's showed up, as I was involved with the rewire on all of those! It's always satisfying to see something you built still going strong!
And furthermore with a pair of GP30 carbodies (which may be GP39s rather than "true" GP30s, no matter)... Lucky you !! Dom
I know I have shared this previously. But.... Outbound from working the Weyerhaeuser mill in Snoqualmie Falls, WA. Just about to cross the old westward lanes of old US 10, at Tanner, WA. Former MILW tracks. I am standing on the abandoned BN (NP) Snoqualmie Branch r-o-w, which the MILW crossed at this location:
The locomotives' road numbers remind me of an interresting practice at BN : these were starting at the exact locomotive's horsepower. Thus, above GP30 is numbered #2247 (2200 hp, and BN's first GP30 was likely numbered 2200), and its trailing unit, #1888, is likely a GP9, whose first unit was probably numbered #1750). On the same way BN's GP38-2s were numbered likely starting at #2000, etc. Would be interresting to know whether BN's surviving units within BNSF kept these roadnumbers. Dom
BNSF can still create some great loco lash-ups!! SB Crew 2 at Kent Wa, pulling an empty autorack out of Orillia Yard.
Took this pic about a year ago, when a buddy of mine who works for the local BNSF "Maintenance in the Way" section as he calls it, was meeting me for coffee at our local Starbucks. Didn't think he'd be rolling up in this!!! Had to get a quick pic with my phone!
Those tracks look like the rails are barely there... I know more than a few people who would make cynical Milwaukee Road jokes seeing a picture like that, What's the unit behind the classic green one? It looks pretty interesting.
That was just because of all the snow sand and other debris, from the highway, plus photo angle. Once you got back a few feet further, the track was much more obvious.
What I have been told is they were purchased by Progress Rail. And from inside MRL HQ, that they have bought four which will be rebuilt and on property some time later this coming summer