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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I was so intent on looking at that caboose, I did not even notice this effect.... :rolleyes:
     
  2. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    CP 245, the daily St.Paul to Calgary manifest waits for a fresh crew at Minot. The dual flag unit was a rare catch for me.
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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Scruffy looking U30CG in Temple, Texas. January 31, 1977. R. J. McKay photo.
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  4. ddechamp71

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    I think this way the 2-unit consist has its cab roughly in the middle, allowing it to go either way with roughly the same visibility. :)

    Dom
     
  5. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Trying to recall- Isn't one of these preserved, somewhere?
     
  6. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    I believe they were all traded in to GE for new B36-7 locomotives. Whether GE used them for parts and scrapped what was left or sold some intact, I do not know. The crews hated them. Crowded cab, spring loaded doors between internal compartments around the prime mover and electrical stuff. Amtrak did buy the GE P30CH which was another passenger variant of the U30C but they did fix a lot of the complaints.
     
  7. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    From 06/01/2016 at Columbia, SC, NS 9435 (as rebuilt to a GE D9-44CW). Why is it notable? It's CLEAN. :LOL: I'm not sure what y'all see in your regions, but most of what I see on NS and CSX these days are filthy dirty.

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  8. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Back in July of 2009, the KCS had finished rebuilding the old Southern Pacific "Macaroni" line between Rosenberg and Victoria, Texas. One of the first trains to travel on the new track was the business train. Here it is coming off the bridge over the Colorado River in Wharton. And look, Kato Unitrack has a prototype. ;)
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  9. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Same here, almost all of BNSF's locos up here are trashed, filthy, smoking, etc.

    ...and we're at the end of UP's "Branchline" to Seattle, so they also send up they're junk beaters.(n)
     
  10. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Washing them costs money. Anything to pinch a penny or two.... Gotta make that "bottom line" look healthy, no matter what ... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
  11. Randy Stahl

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  12. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    A bit darker than Pennsy Brown.
     
  13. Randy Stahl

    Randy Stahl TrainBoard Supporter

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    I think the black is lighter because of the moss growing on it. AS far as I know they want to repaint it back to its original B&LE paint.

    The rear steps and handrails were removed in order to steal the trucks with the good wheels and install them on a GP-9, thank God the GP-9 blew up before they could do that. Now I gotta fix them both. Anyone want to come play with MY trains?
     
  14. HemiAdda2d

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    Absolutely thrashed, you got that right.
    Glad to see clean units!
    And a soggy Wet Noodle after a rainstorm leads a grain train into the old GN yard in Minot.

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  15. Kurt Moose

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    A little west of Indianola MS on Tuesday, 7/5/22. The C&G 8715 aka Big D was not at all what I was expecting to find. Not the best light but still a cool catch.

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  17. LegomanBill

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    An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 1

    UP Diner 4613 at North Platte
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    UP RPO 2064 at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE
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    UP Baggage-Coach 2512 at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE
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    Pullman 10-1-2 Sleeper "Lake Crystal" at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE
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  18. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    I actually have this car-in Z scale, but the #2065.(y)
     
  19. Doug Gosha

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    Most of the CP diesels that come through here are beautifully bight red and clean.

    Doug
     
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    More C&G this week
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