Weekend Proto Fun time again! Here's one from June 2008. It was a bit warm that day and our friend on the roof there was having some A/C issues. These engines don't venture out into a photographable area very often so it was a cool catch that day. Been a while since I have been by that place so maybe I'll put it on my 2023 hit list Hope you all have a happy and safe New Year!
Company assets are all listed on an Asset Ledger so their purchase cost, depreciation, maintenance cost and eventually earnings upon their sale can all be tracked. I wish my former employer had used nice short asset numbers like that.
From 08/09/1992, #464 works north on the former SAL main at Cassatt, SC with three former SCL GP-16s running elephant style, all in different paint. The SCL rebuilt over 150 of these at their Uceta Shop at Tampa, FL from older geeps. Lead unit 1826 was retired six months later and was eventually sold to RJ Corman.
GP16's look to be a neat little rebuild! I had to know more about the GP16 program, and the web came thru: The program: https://archive.vn/mHlCm The roster: http://www.trainweb.org/sclgp16/ Disposition following retirement: http://www.trainweb.org/sclgp16/disposition.html
Today's post is a blast from the past. I may have posted this photo before, but I'm not sure. I took this in Marlette some time before 2019. Huron and Eastern is still a colorful railroad with ex Central Michigan power in black and white, old RailAmerica power and orange G&W power, but was more so in the past. The consist in this photo is led by GP38-2 HESR 3867 with 3865 bringing upm the rear. (Both of these units are still on the HESR and are now offered as Athearn models- much appreciated by local modelers.) The second unit, ex-corp GP38 3839 and the third unit, ex Central Michigan GP38AC 8802 are no longer on the HESR. 8802's sister unit, 8804, is still on the railroad. Today, it's HESR 2026 and wears Genesee and Wyoming orange and cream.
GMTX 2801, the power for East Penn Railways Lancaster Northern branch, is surrounded by railfans yesterday in Sinking Spring, PA. The job is returning to home rails with traffic from NS' Spring ST Yard in Reading. Happy New Year and great railfanning in 2023. Sepp K
Wish i could have taken more pictures when I was still going down to those areas on motorcycles. But couldn't carry much and didn't feel anyone else would care. Now it's all restricted.
I understand what you mean--I shoot it anyways. I don't care what others think--if I like it, I shoot it. If I like it, I share it. Regrets being what they are, I wish I shot more stuff when I was younger and in other locations and had opportunities now gone. It's bitterly cold in Minot as a CP local creeps into the yard at first light. Light pillars are evidence of ice crystal concentrations in the atmosphere.
Nice shot of the light pillar. Sometimes in the early morning, on the way to work when it's still dark, there's some ice fog around and every single street light, flood light, porch light and flash light has an eerie pillar of light, on occasion very intense, shooting up into the sky. Driving past a fully lit car dealer lot is impressive. I get that. I often wish I had a time machine and go back when the D&H PA's came up to CP's Windsor station in Montreal, or back to when CN displayed its brand new F3A-F3B-F3A set at Bonaventure station (before 1952 when it burned completely down). To see and hear the FM C-Liners run past. To see the amazing variety of engines and builders of the 1950s.
My last pic of 2022, is also of it in the rear view mirror! Looking forward to 2023 and a better year for all! Happy New Year!!
As far back as I can remember, I have been very taken with steam locomotives. As a result, when I pedaled my bicycle up to the tracks, I found and shot a lot of freight cars that reached back into the steam era with build dates in the 1940's. What i didn't shoot were the GP35's that pulled regular freights on C&O's Port Huron sub or the GP7's that had caused the retirement of the last of former Pere Marquette steam in 1950 and 1951. I didn't accept or develop an interest in diesels until I discovered the BL2, of which C&O owned the largest fleet. Because of this, I definitely have major regrets about the photos I didn't take.
Those we didn't or couldn't take. Or lost over the years. Like a picture or three of the old C&NW wooden roundhouse and turn table that was in my growing up town......
I was crossing the N&W tracks in Roanoke, VA and spotted a plume of steam and smoke in the distance, obviously a steam loco. I whipped down and around and parked next to station platform. Within a few seconds a huge, for this B&M fan, articulated came by me from the upland, followed immediately by its equally large helper. The lead blew two shorts, followed immediately by two shorts from its helper. A few seconds later I heard two shorts from way in the distance. I guess the leads went by me at about 10 mph. By the time the tail end helper went by, I'd guess he was doing about 25 mph. I was in awe having never seen any articulated locos, especially from 10-15 feet away. They're huge. My camera, oh, it was on the front seat of my car the whole time.
