LAKE VILLA, Ill. — Brand new Canadian National ET44AC No. 3196 leads train M34391-24 through the northern Illinois suburb of Lake Villa. The locomotive was delivered to CN at Memphis, Tennessee by BNSF Railway recently and is making its first r...
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Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Hint: Show's effectively over by 0:30, as far as locomotives are concerned, so you don't have to waste the bandwidth after that point.
Carl: to get any effective viewing of the cars you'll probably have to take advantage of the 4K and zoom in really, really far.
That's really, really good sound for such a distant shot.
Just for yucks I counted 139 cars.
I wonder how they did on Byron Hill. Just fine, I am sure.
I have had the chance to see an ET44AC-ES44AC start up eastbound after a crew change at Pokegama a couple of years ago. The ET44AC was noticably louder than the ES44AC, cracking off like a unit of Her Majesty’s Royal Regiment Of Artillery firing off ceremonial rounds of grapeshot from their 12-lbers.
That would be the Royal Horse Artillery, I believe... They are the artillery equivalent of the Foot Guards and Household Cavalry.
Anyone know why an ET44AC, a GE (Wabtec now I suppose ) product would be delivered to CN by BNSF when NS serves the GE plant in Erie.
Wait, was it build in Ft Worth? Which is served by BNSF? That would make more sense.
Can anyone confirm?
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SPSOT fanAnyone know why an ET44AC, a GE (Wabtec now I suppose ) product would be delivered to CN by BNSF when NS serves the GE plant in Erie. Wait, was it build in Ft Worth? Which is served by BNSF? That would make more sense. Can anyone confirm?
I suspect there are tax issuses involved in the location of formal delivery. There always have been since things such as sales and excise taxes were invented.
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