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Post by casualcollector on Feb 22, 2014 17:40:17 GMT -5
 A train of containers and trailers southbound crossing one of two Sebastian Rivers on the route. The front two units wear the new Florida East Coast "Heritage" colors. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 22:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by casualcollector on Feb 24, 2014 10:56:46 GMT -5
WOW! U.P. always liked the big stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 20:38:07 GMT -5
And another  |
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Post by kodaker on Feb 24, 2014 20:53:57 GMT -5
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Post by daveh on Feb 25, 2014 22:05:34 GMT -5
And some from Great Britain: 47270, "Swift", a class 47 diesel-electric loco in BR blue, built at Crewe and first seeing service on 30th October 1965. The original number was D1971, being renumbered in March 1974 to conform with the computerised TOPS systems. It is currently run by the West Coast Railway Company.  60009 Union of South Africa, an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built in Doncaster in 1937. It is one of six surviving Gresley A4s, currently operational and mainline certified.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2014 23:00:44 GMT -5
Union Pacific 844. I love the moan of a steam whistle.  |
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Post by olroy2044 on Feb 26, 2014 23:48:21 GMT -5
Some shots of 844 a few hundred miles south of Wayne's shot. Taken in Oroville, Ca on May1, 2009--in a driving downpour. 844 was on a goodwill tour of the U.S. and laid over in Oroville for a day. The headlight of an approaching freight can be seen in the far background through the rain   I had planned to use my Vitessa for this event, but left it in the car due to the heavy rain--used my old Kodak digital P&S |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2014 10:53:29 GMT -5
Roy: My shot was in 2007. I don't think the engine has been out of Cheyenne (Wyoming), its home base much in recent years. One of the big problems is that virtually every replacement part on a steam locomotive has to be made from scratch in a machine shop and the only reason for a railroad to have a shop of that size now is to maintain steamers (most diesel parts come out of a box). In addition, most of the Old Timers who maintained and operated those Locomotives at gone now. U.P. has two steam locomotives at Cheyenne -- 844 and the huge Challenger "Big Boy" that was used in the last years of steam to pull long trains over the Continental Divide.
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