Wash Day

[dldance]

It was a beautiful day in Austin TX and the Austin Area Terminal Railroad took advantage of it. When I drove by their maintenance yard, most all of their locomotives were lined up on a siding and a crew with a pressure washer was giving them all a bath. Nice and clean. Looked good in the sun.

dd

[ericsp]

I wonder if the people at Southern Pacific knew that this is possible.

As Curly Howard would say, "It ain't spring yet."

[mloik]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dldance

It was a beautiful day in Austin TX and the Austin Area Terminal Railroad took advantage of it. When I drove by their maintenance yard, most all of their locomotives were lined up on a siding and a crew with a pressure washer was giving them all a bath. Nice and clean. Looked good in the sun.

dd

Nice! Wish I coulda been there. Grey and cloudy here, but any weather is good weather in California (Verrry boring meteorologically).

[JoeKoh]

Did they get behind the ears too??? wish we could have been there.
stay safe
Joe and matt

[eolafan]

I recall one day back in about 1976 I was in LaCrosse, WI and stopped by the Amtrak station area and at that time the bridge now over the tracks had not been built and Milwaukee Road had a small engine service area near the station. Well, for some reason a yard worker was steam pressure washing what looked like a GP38 in the orange and black paint scheme. It was really interesting seeing all the months and years of grime being stripped away and I watched for about 45 minutes until most of the unit was cleam...it looked very nice...but I remember thinking to myself that this was a pretty inefficient way of washing a road unit, especially for a Class I road like MLW. But I will always remember that day and the unusual experience of seeing a road unit hand washed.