Yes, that's correct. The 353 made the trip along with sleeper Clover Colony, which now resides at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
Me too Doug, though my infatuation with that NP scheme was via a fanciful illustration of a Lionel GP-9 in a 1959 catalog when I was a little kid. For whatever reason, it's stuck with me for a lifetime.
Amazingly, shockingly, NS has repainted the RDG Heritage Unit. Yay NS, so nice to see. Maybe some of other NS units will follow; most are in need. [Not my photo]
The definition of sea girt is surrounded by (the) sea - with girt being the past participle of gird, as to encircle. Sea Girt is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and bounded to the north and south by a lake and a pond. What eventually came to be known as Sea Girt NJ was once home to a naval commodore whose estate was called Sea Girt. After his passing, the area was formed as a borough and given the name Sea Girt.
I did know where it was located. But the name had me curious. Also, in my collection I actually have a NY&LB train order copied at SG Tower, as pictured in post #19748.
Now this was a strange one today. A single NS SD70ACe went east. I assume it went to help a stalled train going eastbound up Beaver Hill, but I dunno. Yet. I drove quick to try to get ahead of it, no joy there.
Maybe it's the mechanic taking it out for a "test drive" after a tuneup or repair (like my mechanic at the time did with my Newport... he was always all smiles when I brought it in...).
Happy 47th Birthday Conrail! The 8677 is former SW-8 LV 263. CR designated these as SW-8Ms, with CR having fabricated a box on the front hood to contain an improved cooling system drive. [08/1980, Bethlehem, PA]
Looks like there's at least one GP7/GP9 radiator fan peeking out over the edge of the box. Nice photo.
I cringe every time I see a photo like this. New York Central's K's and J's, were the most enormous machines I had ever seen as a small child. Now to see photos of even bigger machines hanging from "spindly" wires.... However, that's a fantastic photo Russell, thanks.
I will never forget, during my early days at Denver's Burnham shops, didn't carry a camera at the time. But I got permission from the shop general foreman to bring my Vicki, and a great friend Pat, to the facility to see what I was working on every day. We entered the main building, and overhead was an SD45, complete w trucks and all, being transferred overhead, to another track/station for rebuilding. It was such a massive sight, the whole building didn't so much shake at it did bear the 200+ tons, as a daily or hourly event, Burnham was a very busy place in the early-mid 1990's. I was "sponge Tom" soaked up all I could wherever, whenever, I could. There were some great people working there, with awesome craft type knowledge too. As info, when a person says I can weld, thats really cool, I can weld myself. But when a person is a boilermaker, well that's a whole "nother level" of I can weld. I watched DRGW boiler makers weld 1" sheets of metal, with huge arc welders, and actually saw the slag curl up behind the welds of these guys, no slag hammer necessary, they would wipe the slag away with a swipe of their gloves. Well, that's "I can weld" to me.
