What did my dad see?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

The GE idea could be something. The older ones (six axle U boats and C series) are more rounded on the front and rear and pretty big. Plus an older GE would be smoking like a monster.

Dan [8D]

Heck Dan, newer GE smoke like a monster. Just last week if my computer would have been working I would have started a topic with the title "Grass Fire Near Railroad Tracks?". However, the grass fire turned out just to be two GEs pulling an empty coal train, and they still were smoking like it took all they had just to pull the empty cars. I even saw a GE pusher one day, the train was stopped, but you would have thought the throttle was in run 8 the way it smoked.

[CSXrules4eva]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

The GE idea could be something. The older ones (six axle U boats and C series) are more rounded on the front and rear and pretty big. Plus an older GE would be smoking like a monster.

Dan [8D]

Heck Dan, newer GE smoke like a monster. Just last week if my computer would have been working I would have started a topic with the title "Grass Fire Near Railroad Tracks?". However, the grass fire turned out just to be two GEs pulling an empty coal train, and they still were smoking like it took all they had just to pull the empty cars. I even saw a GE pusher one day, the train was stopped, but you would have thought the throttle was in run 8 the way it smoked.

LOL this almost sounds like a locomotive I saw which was CSX owned. It came through West Conshohocken on NS double track territory. It was a Dash-840C. It was heading up a mainifest train. The trains was only moving at 10 mph and I mean the smoke was get black and there was a hole lot of it. I had to step back, way back. I've never seen a diesel engine smoke that bad ever. But the engine had a serious stuck intake valve, therefor the compression as well as the air to fuel mixture was thrown off. I could hear the abnormal engine noise when the engine went by, sounded like a deep thud.

[Anonymous]

Back in the mid to late 60s, the SP had 2 units that resemble the U50C but a noticable difference was the windshield. On the SP units the crew sat about 2 feet from the windshield and it was from floor to ceiling inside of the cab. I only got to ride this monster one time when it was in my consist coming out of Indio CA. I think I remember the hoghead saying it was a German unit.

Virlon

[Sterling1]

Well what kind of colors did he see?
And oh by the way what were the other two units, it may help us to scale down the list a little bit.

[Sterling1]

I'm not trying to bash your dad in any way but did he mistake yellow for orange? Spokane Portland and Seattle and Milwaukee Road had orange and black.
I know that in certain lighting conditions UP yellow can appear yellowish orange.

[XG01X]

Not sure what he saw; but last week a I saw a SD90(UP) roaming that very same line with a GP60(NS) and some thing else but I thought it was the third unit back.
Travis