06-02-2010, 08:18 AM
I'm often struck by how "European" most rail grinders look, but now I see they don't really, compared to this. The trucks are a design I'm familiar with from the East Bloc that I've never seen in North America.
Fan of late and early Conrail... also 40s-50s PRR, 70s ATSF, BN and SP, 70s-80s eastern CN, pre-merger-era UP, heavy electric operations in general, dieselized narrow gauge, era 3/4 DB and DR, EFVM and Brazilian railroads in general... too many to list!