PROTOTYPE Weekend PROTO FUN! 2/26/16

2 sick kiddos is makin it hard to sleep around here, but hopefully you all won't see this til the morning.

 

Get to work! From my Dad's files, ome assorted CPR work and MOW cars, Ste-Therese, August 1979:



I like the style of the building in the background. It's the old Willis piano factory. A retirement home not occupies its place, and a street goes where the tracks are now. A lot has changed.

 

CSX Q-316 carrying a ex-CNW GP7r through Point Pleasant,WV



Curtis

 

Deep into the east at BN's East Thomas (Birmingham), AL Yard on 08/31/1990, SW-1200 No. 33. Ex-GN I think, but I'm not sure.

 

Thanks Boxcab. She's then right at home in Birmingham. The East Thomas yard had a reputation for not being a place that tolerated fans. I recall that we jumped out of the car, made our shots and split all in about a minute. At the time, Norfolk Southern's Norris Yard yard across town in Irondale was the polar opposite -- anyone could drive through the gate , into the yard and over to the steam shop to see whatever was there. As long as a fan didn't act like a fool, NS seemed to tolerate it.

Alas, that's all changed today.

 

Nope it's a former SLSF Sw-1500

 

Ten there is north of the border

 

And then here locally

 

Adding on to ri straws GVSR here is the gvsr at 9 in the morning leading a local in late November of 2015.

 

Here's the P&W in town