You don't see many of these paint jobs anymore at least in our neck of the woods. AC44W 6177 on a coal train in Elburn Illinois.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by buzz456 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:57 am
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39 and holding.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by PapaXpress » Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:08 am
Indeed. I am seeing fewer SP patch units around Oakland as well.
What is that signal? It looks like there is an X on it, perhaps something to do with the crossing?
What is that signal? It looks like there is an X on it, perhaps something to do with the crossing?
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Re: Your Best Photo
by buzz456 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:32 am
Yeah, that's part of the crossing horns on a pole since they don't use their horns. I think it tells the engineer that the crossing horn is working but not sure.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by slick204 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:11 pm
Buzz is correct. The X flashes to tell them if the trackside horns are working. We have them here too.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by NS9030 » Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:44 pm
Summer Mornings On The B&O by The Owen Perry, on Flickr
CSXT 8155, 7381 w/ Q324
Onward to Toledo by The Owen Perry, on Flickr
CSXT 6985, ???? w/ K209
Turning the Corner by The Owen Perry, on Flickr
CSXT 7867, 7884, 7337, 576, 4596 w/ Q501
Junk by The Owen Perry, on Flickr
NREX 5678, JFDX 8045 w/ LNLX
Taconite Loads by The Owen Perry, on Flickr
CSXT 352, ???? w/ K185
"CSX 376 clear Tontogany, K18519 out"
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Re: Your Best Photo
by conrail1 » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:09 am
Not my best photos. Just some pictures i took a few years ago down at Whitefish yard. I was using an iPod so that's why the quality might be bad.
GN 181
EX BN white face gp30
CSXT locomotive (not sure what type. Looks like a SD70ace)
pair of BNSF gp38s
GN 181
EX BN white face gp30
CSXT locomotive (not sure what type. Looks like a SD70ace)
pair of BNSF gp38s
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Re: Your Best Photo
by The_Garbear » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:41 pm
Those GP30s are pretty amazing machines. The youngest examples are now over 50 years old and still in service, albeit rebuilt, for Class Is. Impressive.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by conrail1 » Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:58 am
ya and in that picture they were actuality running.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by conrail1 » Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:24 am
I know this doesn't really count but... Look what i found while railfanning!
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Re: Your Best Photo
by DrewG » Sat Aug 23, 2014 5:23 pm
I don't railfan as much as I would like so I don't have many good photos but I lie this one, a GP38-2W, and GP38-2 shunting with old Via Budd RDC's in the background.
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Re: Your Best Photo
by JohnTrainHead » Sat Aug 23, 2014 5:45 pm
Some photos from my last trip to visit relatives up in Buffalo....
Enola Yard, just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, PA
NS GP59 #4655, an OLI unit @ Gang Mills, NY
Enola Yard, just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, PA
NS GP59 #4655, an OLI unit @ Gang Mills, NY
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Re: Your Best Photo
by conrail1 » Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:02 am
I went to the B&O on friday expect plenty of pics from me :)
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Re: Your Best Photo
by conrail1 » Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:44 pm
This is the only electric locomotive that CSX owned. The X5000. It was powered by a 250 volt battery. If you have any arguments as of whether this is an electric locomotive or not take that up with the B&O roundhouse. This is classified as an electric on their site. Note these pictures are not mine. I emailed a staff member at the B&O Roundhouse if he could take these for me.
The cab(i believe this is the only picture of its cab)
Outside
The cab(i believe this is the only picture of its cab)
Outside
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Re: Your Best Photo
by Shayfan1 » Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:50 pm
Classified as an electric switch engine it was the shop goat at the C&O Locomotive shops in Huntington WV for many years. Here it is in Chessie colors.
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