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Flexicoils
Listening to some Coltrane because these are truly two of my favorite things.
One of my many clicks that was just a young kid in awe of the sight, sound, and smell of what idled away before the Pentax. And I rack another frame into position...
Well, I wasn't quite that green anymore. I'd been getting familiar with these circumstances over the last two years. Sixth grade was my "coming of age" moment, and when I got permission to ride my bicycle up to "the Pole Yards" , as it was affectionately known, unsupervised. That was merely a blank spot in the tape, as most of the time I was under the watchful eye of a select few railroaders.
We all have our specific memories, and this snapshot brings the air compresser knock right back to me. The "up close and personal" passer-by that I was, I appreciated the faint hint that there would be exhausting happening, and soon.
Onto the image, we are looking at two trailing EMD's on the WC Transfer. Enenbach must still be at the hotel counting sheep, so the beautiful morning departure would not commence. But check out the details!
WC 7498, one of the last SD45's to receive paint, shows off the company flare quite nicely for what I believe to be spring of 2005. The Byron Hill helper box is still installed, and the neat SLSF short fuel tank is very evident.
CSXT 8469, part of a series that got to be pretty hard to find out on the mainlines only a few years later. This was one of the rebuilds that received a little extra love. It started out as SP 9104, but got zero decked and stepped back out looking to all the world like a by-god straight 40. The typical CSX details are on display, somewhat new white cab roof with K5 perched, mail slot door, and the ubiquitous digital fuel gauge. Mismatched Timken's and Hyatt's round it out on what looked like a perfect late morning at New Brighton.
Flexicoils
Listening to some Coltrane because these are truly two of my favorite things.
One of my many clicks that was just a young kid in awe of the sight, sound, and smell of what idled away before the Pentax. And I rack another frame into position...
Well, I wasn't quite that green anymore. I'd been getting familiar with these circumstances over the last two years. Sixth grade was my "coming of age" moment, and when I got permission to ride my bicycle up to "the Pole Yards" , as it was affectionately known, unsupervised. That was merely a blank spot in the tape, as most of the time I was under the watchful eye of a select few railroaders.
We all have our specific memories, and this snapshot brings the air compresser knock right back to me. The "up close and personal" passer-by that I was, I appreciated the faint hint that there would be exhausting happening, and soon.
Onto the image, we are looking at two trailing EMD's on the WC Transfer. Enenbach must still be at the hotel counting sheep, so the beautiful morning departure would not commence. But check out the details!
WC 7498, one of the last SD45's to receive paint, shows off the company flare quite nicely for what I believe to be spring of 2005. The Byron Hill helper box is still installed, and the neat SLSF short fuel tank is very evident.
CSXT 8469, part of a series that got to be pretty hard to find out on the mainlines only a few years later. This was one of the rebuilds that received a little extra love. It started out as SP 9104, but got zero decked and stepped back out looking to all the world like a by-god straight 40. The typical CSX details are on display, somewhat new white cab roof with K5 perched, mail slot door, and the ubiquitous digital fuel gauge. Mismatched Timken's and Hyatt's round it out on what looked like a perfect late morning at New Brighton.