I hadn't noticed that! Probably an SCL thing. Now that I think about it, even Auto Trains's U36B's had Blombergs as a nod to SCL specifications.
The 19 lead by Amtrak 77 and 40 is southbound/eastbound through Austell GA with a cool baggage car near the tail end - August 2004
From December 1993, we're about 30 Miles south of Charleston, SC at the north end of Parker's Ferry siding at MP 415.4 on the former ACL main.
From December 1981 at Savannah, GA, SCL SW-7 199 takes a rest from switching the Union Camp paper mill. This is a former Charleston & Western Carolina unit, a road long controlled by the ACL.
Just one on the head end. On CP's Portal Sub, most trains are 1x1, DPU midtrain. This being train 199 (Chicago-Vancouver), it usually rates 1x1. About the only trains that have more than a single unit on the head end are oil and H-series local trains. Grain, mixed manifests, intermodals all 1x1 here. Here's most of the train, bending around the curves; the midtrain DPU is just ahead of the final stacks. The state of the economy is evident with a half mile of baretables trailing what is normally high-priority tonnage fully loaded with doublestacks. The DPU was filthy and not worth shooting:
As seen at Red Hill, SC in September 1995 were former CN F-7s 9158 and 9163 owned by the Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad. The WCLR was later sold and then sold again to RJ Corman. I don't know what became of these units.
9158 went to the Carolina Southern and ultimately came to a rough ending: https://www.railpictures.net/showimage.php?id=234590&key=8719941 9163 also went to the Carolina Southern, but then made its way to the SLRG in Colorado. It's presently listed for sale by Ozark Mountain Railcar: https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEquipmentGrid.php?category=Locomotives
Supposedly, it was acquired about ten years ago to be rebuilt and used on a tourist line, so, if that was the intention, then it must not have been a total basket case. It depends upon how badly you want to end up with an operable F-unit, and at what cost. Here's a look at the opposite side:
Worth the wait Wednesday afternoon. BNSF ACe leader on L571 Parkersburg, IA https://blog.buddyburtonphoto.com/2020/04/l571-with-bnsf-ace.html?m=1 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
