No photo fun yet? Here is a UP "train" I caught this morning. The "train" was only two tank cars
-- Kevin
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Good Grief, Charlie Brown! They needed all that horsepower for two tank cars? Wnat was in the tank cars, some extra-heavy fluid like Unobtainium 238? :?: :?:
biL
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P5se Camelback Wrote:Good Grief, Charlie Brown! They needed all that horsepower for two tank cars? Wnat was in the tank cars, some extra-heavy fluid like Unobtainium 238? :?: :?:
Could've been my aunts Geritol supply.
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I think it is not about power, but having a cab at both ends of the consist. Too many busy grade crossings along that route. the photo is probably of a local returning to the Phoenix yard.
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nachoman Wrote: I think it is not about power, but having a cab at both ends of the consist. Too many busy grade crossings along that route.
Oooo! Facinating look at things. Not being at all a diesel person I never even considered the cab location aspect of it ... good point!
[Yeah, I know, I've neglected my continuing education and have a whole lot of catching up to do, starting with the Alco/General Electric/Ingersoll-Rand box cab #50 , assigned the Reading Company's Class OE-1 (Oil Electric, 1st type), arriving on the property in June, 1926! That one I do know something about, having a partially kit-bashed one laying in a box since 1988.]
But enough of this drivel ...
I offer a gift from my sister from when their family was residing in the United Kingdom. The material is British Coal! The scale is "OO"
It's a heavy mother!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
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...prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits...
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Here is a shot of a SD9 doing yard duty in the Portage yard.
8-)
Andy Kramer - modeling the Milwaukee Road in Wisconsin
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Here's a bridge shot from my hotel room earlier this week...that thick, black bar across the entry is a rail bridge running along top the levee and perpendicular to the bridge...
...prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits...
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I can almost hear it, as it approached "ZOO Tower" in Philadelphia, with 20-some coaches of the American Freedom Train in tow, on its way up from Delaware to New York at about 03:45 one chilly morning as three of us stood there, hands wrapped around hot coffee in paper cups, waiting to see that headlight coming!
Standing about five feet from the tracks as it thundered by, it was a an experience I won't soon forget!
Thanks for posting your photo of a beautiful model!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
I wish I had seen that. I was only 9 then, but things were a little mixed up and so I never got to see it. And unless Andy Mueller decides to actually spend the money, I don't see 2102 running again either.
I'm just trying to NOT buy the new run of them. I have both in-service numbers from the first run (2111 and 2113) and I defintiely do not need more T-1's. I have enough locos in general and T-1s never ran on the C&F so really I have 2 too many.