I'll start off the weekend with an aurora borealis shot at Carpio, ND. The next morning near Foxholm, ND a few miles east on the CP Portal Sub, westbound CP train 319, a grain load: And some geeps simmering in the chill at first light at Minot West, CP yard.
That aurora borealis shot is beautiful Hemi!!!!! Had to be in Joliet IL all week for work. I did manage to see a few trains and continued my streak of industrial switchers on trips for 2022. Got this old soldier just south of here in Channahon IL on Monday 4/25/22. It's numbered 2002 and that is the extent of what I know about it.
When I read of @Kisatchie 's plans to paint and decal some SOU geeps, I recalled that I had found some in Knoxville, TN in 1977. The units without dynamic brakes are former Central of Georgia. The road's generally flat profile didn't require this feature.
Very cool to see the varieties of Geeps in tuxedos! Remind me again what the subscript letters on the road numbers were for?
Well, I know C of G was Central of Georgia. TA&G was Tennessee Alabama & Georgia. CNO&TP was Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific RR. AGS was Alabama Great Southern Railway. GS&F was Georgia Southern and Florida Railway.
You are spot on for the lettering under the unit numbers Russell. Now, those letters at the end of the unit number were something different (ex. 178k). Those are what the Southern called computer check codes. They were mainly used by the accounting department and by the maintenance departments only. Mostly maintenance used them for determining the general maintenance cycle of the locomotives. No idea what accounting used them for. Outside of those departments, it's like those letters don't exist. There is probably some obscure reference out there that really describes this in detail.
On Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 50th Anniversary P42 46 leads Amtrak 42, the eastbound Pennsylvanian into the Elizabethtown station.
