Trackside with Erik and Mike, Vol. 50: April 24, 2006

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Trackside with Erik and Mike, Vol. 50: April 24, 2006

  • #1 by a mile...it's so cool to look at and not an everyday sight
  • QUOTE: Originally posted by gunzel2

    Photo 1 for sure....
    Nothing beats looking down the full length of a long snout of an engine at high-speed in mainline service!

    DW - Locomotive engineer/Driver
    Pacific National R&B South Dynon. Melb, Australia.


    I don't know if we're looking at the same photo, but number 1 is a long way from 'high-speed in mainline service!"
  • QUOTE: Originally posted by thefox

    FEC is less common anyway. I see it's in front of two UP locos so either UP locos aren't local or vice versa. I'm guessing that the shot was from Florida from Mike's trip out East or Southeast. I could easily be wrong, especially since I don't even know exactly where he went.

    For those of you that are interested, I found a trio of FEC shots on Railpictures.net:
    1ex-UP, 2 blue:
    http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=121137
    2 ex-UP, 1 blue:
    http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=121138
    3 ex-UP!
    http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=121139
    All three are very nice shots!
  • The composition of Photo #2 is far better than Photo #1.
    We should stop looking at the railroads involved and look at the photos for waht they are.
    DV
  • Woo-hoo! Thanks for the mention Bergie!!!
    QUOTE: originally posted in the Trackside with Erik and Mike Vol. 50 Recap

    To clear up some other speculation, that is not an SD45 as some forum members had guessed. It's a rebuilt GP38-2. While I could go into details, I think our friend "fuzzybroken" explains it well in his reply in the Trains.com reader forum.
    He also mentions the cool reflective decals used for the CP letters on the locomotive's tall hood. Below is a full-size version of the letters, which clearly shows that they're not only reflective, but that they also have a horizontal ridged pattern to help catch more light.

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