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Please help ID the prototype for this early diesel

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Please help ID the prototype for this early diesel
Posted by MDLaFond on Saturday, December 5, 2015 8:34 PM

You know, I'd like to!  I've posted it to my flikr account, provided the link in the photo insert dialog box, as well as a description and dimensions, but no luck!  This is not exactly the most user-friendly system of sharing photos.

Thanks!

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, December 6, 2015 1:49 PM

Mr. LaFond if you tried posting a picture please try it again, there's nothing there.

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Posted by M636C on Sunday, December 6, 2015 8:04 PM

If you post the URL link to the photo, we can go and look at it on that site.

More experienced forum users may be able to activate that link for you...

M636C

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Posted by kgbw49 on Sunday, December 6, 2015 8:11 PM

Also, if you open the Trains Web Site in Google Chrome, you can open a picture, select it, right click on it and select Copy Image.

Then you can just paste it into the forum. That is what I did with this sample picture below:

Image result for baldwin diesel locomotives

 Good luck!

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Posted by NorthWest on Sunday, December 6, 2015 9:33 PM

1934 Westinghouse center cab with 800 HP engine. Originally built as WEMCO 13. There were other related units but none identical to it. It was repowered by EMD in 1948 as EMD's first repower. 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 9:33 PM

Northwest, how cool is that! A rare bird indeed! Actually, I was trying to help the original thread poster by showing what you can do if you are in  the Google Chrome browser. I just picked that picture at random - figured it was some type of Baldwin center cab, which would be rare enough, but I have to chuckle because it turned out to be an even more unique unit than I first thought! So thank you for sharing that information on the Westinghouse center cab!

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:31 AM

MDLaFond

You know, I'd like to!  I've posted it to my flikr account, provided the link in the photo insert dialog box, as well as a description and dimensions, but no luck!  This is not exactly the most user-friendly system of sharing photos.

Thanks!

   If it's in your flikr account, conjure it up, then right-click on the "http..." in the bar at the top of the screen and hit copy.   When you post your entry in the forum, right-click in the text area and hit paste.

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