A curve like that, close to the house as it is, kinda limits the length of cars going through there... heck, even a model switcher would have a hard time negotiating that one! Maybe a generous little old lady hands the engineer some hot coffee and fresh-baked cookies on the way by.
This fast freight, probably an H train, is lightly powered on a warm Feb day, (Monday 6 Feb. ) which seems weird, but trains are more fun to video when it is so nice out!
Inspired by a comment from Mike VE2TRV, here's a picture of "Blackjack", PRR GG1 4935, preserved at the RR Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg, PA.
Glad to be of service! But I'd call her "Black Beauty"... Looks like she's doing 100 mph just sitting there.
UP 1995 East leading MCBCH by Mechanicsville, IA. February 8, 2023 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Former Southern Pacific SD45T-2 (number 9192, built in March 1972) is an elevator goat in a land of no rail tunnels, Minot, ND:
Old Missouri Pacific caboose at the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma in Enid. December 6, 2007. Many folks mistake this class of cabooses as "Transfer Cabooses" however they were built in the MoPac shops as full blown road cabooses that lacked bunks and other amenities typical in older models.
Clean caboose! UP uses 4 of these here in Seattle as idlers to load the Alaska Marine barge with cars.
Diesel servicing at the Hardy Street Shops in Houston. Late 1980s. Someone just had to go and stick an ICG Geep in the middle of all those lovely SP Bloody nose locomotives.
Pretty rare nowadays when you find a new car AND no graffiti!! Sitting in the siding at Auburn today!
That's actually an SD40, and a really rare one that it was a demonstrator with the L-shape engineers window, like the SP had!
Wow, what a great pic! Is this up in Canada somewhere, great little place if you were going to model it!
