Thursday Proto Photo, Oct 22/15

[Lenny53]

[davefoxx]

Lenny,

As always, great picture!  Oh, and that's an interesting road number: "6 square 1 1."   

DFF

[NYNE]

  A trolley in Lowell, Massachusetts a few years ago. It is part of the National Park there and free to ride. If you are in the area, it is worth checking out.

[Albert in N]

Was in Chickasha OK today and noted that three southbound UP freights were waiting for northbound UP approaching this old Rock Island yard on the Oklahoma-Texas main.  Could only get two of the three since taking photo from a public street.

[The Beer Baron]

I drive by CP's "Expressway" facility on Trafalgar Rd every time I go to my trailer. The only time I've seen power there, was what looked like a couple AC4400's last month.

[johnb]

1600 block of Lincoln Blvd, Anaheim, CA, about two miles away from Disneyland, circa 1988, when railroading in Southern California was still cool.

[Albert in N]

Thanks for the SP "Cadillac" photos.  In N scale, I have one of these SD-7s made in 1990s by Kato.  Since I model 1970 and early 1980s, I haven't weathered it to that extent.  Owning a much newer Kato N scale SD-40-2 (early version) UP, I took this close up of a prototype one this week while visiting in Oklahoma.  Union Pacific seems to run older units on the old Rock Island main line through Oklahoma. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[Spades]

Any idea what the box attached to the right rear of the SD40-2 fuel tank is for? it appears to stand proud from the fuel tank.

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[johnb]

Albert, you're welcome, but they are GP9's, not Cadillacs

[John]

From my New Mexico trip -- I would submit it to Railpictures, but I'm sure its not "quality" enough 

[davefoxx]

John,

I really like that photo.  I say go for the submission to RailPictures and see what happens.

DFF

[John]

John,

I really like that photo.  I say go for the submission to RailPictures and see what happens.

DFF

Naw .. criteria for rejection .. the power lines , cropping .. etc ..

[Albert in N]

RE: UP 1596 SD40-2 photo, Spades asked "Any idea what the box attached to the right rear of the SD40-2 fuel tank is for? it appears to stand proud from the fuel tank".   I expanded my photo and noted two fuel lines coming out of the left side of the box; the lower one has a manual faucet type cutoff valve.  The box appears to be an access cover to the fuel lines secured by brackets and a shiny removable fastener.  Probably this was a modification made at a UP shop.  I could not expand to more detail since I used a convenient 16 Megapixel Fujifilm pocket camera ($70 from Walmart). 

[trainforfun]

RE: UP 1596 SD40-2 photo, Spades asked "Any idea what the box attached to the right rear of the SD40-2 fuel tank is for? it appears to stand proud from the fuel tank".   I expanded my photo and noted two fuel lines coming out of the left side of the box; the lower one has a manual faucet type cutoff valve.  The box appears to be an access cover to the fuel lines secured by brackets and a shiny removable fastener.  Probably this was a modification made at a UP shop.  I could not expand to more detail since I used a convenient 16 Megapixel Fujifilm pocket camera ($70 from Walmart).

Nice pic . Is this unit considered a "snoot" or regular nose ?

[C855B]

Snoot, but it is the slightly shorter (116" vs. 123") snoot.