It's D-Day tribute loco, an SD70ACu, rebuild of SD90MAC "convertible" 9160. Someone shot a great video of it on a similar bridge near Minneapolis:
Aboard a UP Safety Awareness Train on November 17, 2006. A meet coming into Sugar Land. About a minute earlier we passed the threshold of runway 35 at Sugar Land Regional Airport. This is looking out the dome window. A little zoomed in for effect. However it is recommended not to attempt a take off or landing when a train is passing the end of the runway.
Cumbres, Colorado. Robert W. Richardson photograph, January 21 1949. Denver Public Library Digital Collection.
As built by AC&F in Berwick, PA in this photo dated 07/18/1922, an insulated car to carry Glen Summit Water. Stenciling reads "RETURN TO CARE OF C.R.R. of N.J.". The spring is southwest of Wilkes-Barre, PA and the company is still in business today.
Wow! Nicely photographed, too. Great to see one new out of the factory. Looks like it's straight out of the box.
Early morning alpenglow at the GN depot in Minot, ND: First light at CP2030 as a BNSF 2x3x1 "combo" double grain load is prepared to head west:
Yes, I too still call them Kadee cars and probably always will. I wonder if Kadee, er Micro-Trains has the proper body style for the Glen Summit Water car? That would make a really nice model. I have no idea what its colors were.
Um, black and white Actually, I guess the primary body color could have been white, yellow, orange, or light gray? I think those hinges were always black, weren't they?Trim around the top, who knows as many colors show dark in black and white. I like that era of cars, though. They certainly were attractive. Doug
Ooh that Glen Summit car is neat!! Brings back memories! When I worked for M-K, we spent time in a house at Glen Summit while training employees at the new MountainTop shop. The house was an awesome older wood vacation house that had belonged to the KMart founding family! It was sure a neat place!1 What a neat car that would be!!
I agree. They were certainly very light colored to keep the inside cool. The hinges are black on the model cars I have. Even then, it might be a big presumption on the model manufacturer's part. With B&W photography, how dark or light colors turn out depends on the color filter on the lens. You want to darken blue? Use a red filter (the old trick to make the sky stand out). And vice-versa. Goodness knows how many B&W photos of rolling stock I've seen have very different shades of gray. In color, they're all the same. Filters!
Just a sweet shot of an immaculate DM&IR 40' gon from 09/1941. ...and a spanking new DM&N ore car from 04/1925. Look at all of those rivets! I'm guessing that welding technology was in its infancy back then.
From 08/1958, a spotless SI covered hopper. I've heard of this road, but don't know anything about it.
I saw this in real life, while working at PC&F. We would fix a few blemishes, etc, for most orders. But the Santa Fe people would go over every car very, very carefully. They'd show up in white lab coats, with white mini-hardhats, and a clipboard. Then someone from the paint shop would be called over to spend time with the inspectors, dabbing at every slight or perceived imperfection.
