Your favorite locomotive.

[episette]

I also live in Ohio  and occasionally Ive seen the rare BNSF or UP mixed among NS consists on the Ft Wayne line that is a few miles away.

 

Slight thread hijack,

   Why did EMD return to vertical windshields and add the slight hump in the nose above the door on the SD70ace? Id think that the vertical windshield would get dirtier easier because it wouldn't be cleared of rain and snow by the aerodynamics, and its aerodynamically inefficient. The hump on the nose would decrease forward visibility in exchange for the small amount of headroom that it adds at the exit door.

[Dan The Man]

Yeah I've seen more Union Pacific engines than BNSF at Glendale, only other place I've seen more BNSF is at Fostoria.

[Diggwadd]

ITS ALL ABOUT THE GEVO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol I keed I keed. I have only been a railfan for about 6 years now so this may be abit hard for me.

 

Modern power:

SD70ACe

Older power:

GE Dash 7 series (I don`t remember seeing one in service)

Old EMD high nose stuff(SD9, GP7)

[crewshuttle]

It would be the SD40-2 in BN green and black paint.

For yard service, the SW1500 or SW1200.

[EMD#1]

I operate trains out of Atlanta.  NS keeps the SD80MACs up north in coal country so I haven't had the opportunity.  I have operated UP SD9043MACs though that has run thru on different trains.  Like the SD80MACs the SD90MACs and the SD9043MACs have desk top control stands which I loathe.  Good engine but I'd like to slap the person that decided it was a good idea to put a control stand that belongs in a subway on a freight locomotive!

The worst locomotive that I have ever operated was the GE B23-7.  It made my day when NS retired all of the U-boats and the GE Dash 7 line of locomotives.  It took forever just to get them to move once you moved the throttle.  The Dash 8 locomotives aren't that much better either, especially the old Conrail units.  They ride rough and they take forever to load too.  If I was in charge I'd replace them with ES44AC locomotives!

[Yardmaster01]

MILW 265 because I got married in the cab.  Otherwise, anything massively steam!

                                                                                                Pat.

[big steve]

Baldwin RF-16 sharknose & Alco PA series

[Paul of Covington]

  Quote from episette:

  " Why did EMD return to vertical windshields and add the slight hump in the nose above the door on the SD70ace? Id think that the vertical windshield would get dirtier easier because it wouldn't be cleared of rain and snow by the aerodynamics, and its aerodynamically inefficient. The hump on the nose would decrease forward visibility in exchange for the small amount of headroom that it adds at the exit door."

_________

   I think I remember something in TRAINS about the new windshield being cheaper/easier to replace.    As for the nose shape, someone in the know will have to answer.    Personally, I like the old bevel-sided nose.