DPU at Hardeeville, SC, close to the GA state line on the former ACL, 09/22/2019. Until 1969, the SOU's line south from Columbia, SC met the ACL here for trackage rights into Savannah. Most of the SOU line is gone today.
That nose is so exaggerated with the fisheye--I love it! Speaking of noses, the eastbound Northgate Local hints a plow extra on the Crosby Sub is needed.
Looks like a Jimmy Durante job! I just looked it up - light weight 201,400 lbs; load limit 743,600 lbs; so max weight on rails is 945,000 lbs. Thats over 470 tons total or about 40 tons per axle! Just putting that kind of load onto the car must be a delicate operation to say the least!
I'm not exactly sure Doug. By this time, I think they were all E-8s and E-9s. Unlike their Fs, the C&NW blanked out the number boards on the Es, making it hard to capture their numbers. This was taken at Barrington, IL about 1976, looking east. That's my brother's Toyota Corolla parked to the left.
Thanks, Dan. I should have realized 1970 would have been pretty late for an E7 and the herald on E7s was larger although hat could have been redone. I either never knew or had forgotten about blanking out the number boards. Doug
Not a great photo, but Amtrak 100, one of the locomotives commemorating 50 years of Amtrak, leads train 42 East into the Elizabethtown, PA, station this afternoon. I should have been down on the lawn.
And the folks on the power never knew or felt a thing. All the straps and chains tying the vehicles down breaking, the vehicles being mashed. Man I hate when that happens.
Yikes! At first I thought there was a huge piece of floppy something-or-other, then I realized it was the roof being scraped off like a potato peel. That must have been an interesting noise.
The story I heard somewhere was that an over height train was directed under a low clearance bridge by a dispatcher and while the crew stopped the train as soon as they recognized the problem, well, trains don't stop on a dime so... Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
