Thursday Proto Photo, Jan 7/10

[Lenny53]

[asciibaron]

CSX Q137 heads west across Bridge 10 on the S&C in Hyndman, PA about to start up the east slope of Sand Patch grade in August 2002

[TrainManTy]

I'm really digging that first shot!

10 mph track on the CSX Leominster Branch in Berlin, Mass...can you tell why? 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainmanty/4144777751/

[asciibaron]

10 mph track on the CSX Leominster Branch in Berlin, Mass...can you tell why? 

no, why?

[up1950s]

That looks like a S-6 in that first shot . I had one in HO , I want one in N . Pulling RDC's yet , thats something I have never seen by any switcher .

[Ian MacMillan]

...Pulling RDC's yet , thats something I have never seen by any switcher .

This was quite common on the B&M towards the end of the B&M running commuter service. They were routinely hauled by S1/S3 and GP7's.

[up1950s]

...Pulling RDC's yet , thats something I have never seen by any switcher .

This was quite common on the B&M towards the end of the B&M running commuter service. They were routinely hauled by S1/S3 and GP7's.

So the RDC's prime movers ( thats a stretch ) were left to just supply heat and lights ?

[Dave Schneider]

A couple of shots from my collection.

One for the RDC theme. This is an interesting lashup.
The GP-38u is ex-CR GP40 3250; exx-PC; nee NYC.
The RDC-2 is exx-AMTK 34, ex-PC 80, nee-NYC M480, and was sold to Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., Tomahawk, WI in 2009.
There are no more RDCs on the active roster.




One for the  the cold winter theme.



Best wishes. Stay Warm. Dave

[Bob Bufkin]

Got this from a Yahoo group I belong to.  Taken during the blizzard a few weeks ago.

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[TrainManTy]

...Pulling RDC's yet , thats something I have never seen by any switcher .

This was quite common on the B&M towards the end of the B&M running commuter service. They were routinely hauled by S1/S3 and GP7's.

And in the earlier years of MBTA commuter service (took it over from the B&M), they ran some of their trains with those same RDCs, gutted and hauled by F10s and F40PHs.

[Lenny53]

That looks like a S-6 in that first shot . I had one in HO , I want one in N . Pulling RDC's yet , thats something I have never seen by any switcher .

CN #8513 is an S13,  this is a move under "old work rules" where dead heading passenger consists had to be moved by switcher crews from the passenger terminal to the coach yard.

[cv_acr]

That is cool on so many levels.

Matched pair of wide-cab CN GP40-2s. 40' CN boxcars. CP switcher and wooden caboose. CN S13 moving some RDCs around.

Only the GP40-2s can still be seen today if you tried to retake that photo. (Yeah VIA still runs some RDCs, but not anywhere near where the photo was taken.)