Temporary replacement for Photo of the Day

[Miningman]

Ok Good Morning! got your coffee in hand, still a bit fuzzy yet?  ( that's my fav part of the day)... ready for Friday July 17th Photo OTD?

This one has a title : Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle....

Now a quick quiz.

If you were with a crowd of 100 people watching the train what do you think  they would be looking at, fascinated with and talking about?  

Yeah I thought so. 

[Miningman]

Yeah that's Bangor and Aroostook alright, pretty snappy looking boxcar series. Have one in N Scale. 

[SD70Dude]

That 'side-door Pullman' looks like a Bangor & Aroostook car.

[Miningman]

Well heck. Then again that's the point of all this, now we are all well informed. Merci Caboose ! 

[Overmod]

Miningman

Apparently the UP ordered the DD35B before it ordered the cab unit A's

There is no such thing as a DD35B, any more than there is a South African class 25C.  That locomotive was designed as a cabless booster to be run with smaller, more flexible locomotives for cabs, so it's just DD35.  Put a cab on it and you can call it 'A' ... but that doesn't change the history.

Aha! I hear you say, but UP numbered them as Bs.  As indeed, operationally, they were.  Doesn't change what EMD called them.

[Miningman]

Hope to heck the Photo of the Day feature is not stuck like it is over at Trains. Seems we have missed a couple of days anyway so here is a temporary replacement.

 

CV Train #561 Stafford Springs CT. 

 

1968 PRR last emblem on passenger service. 

 

UP S4 at Kansas City 1965 moving a DD35 'B' #77B around the yard. Apparently the UP ordered the DD35 cabless booster before it ordered the cab unit A's