When 90's Roamed the Earth
Back in February 2011, I made a trip up to Midland, just north of Lawrence on the UP Kansas Sub, and found this UP SD9043MAC on the point of an eastbound manifest. The trailing unit is the NS 9578. Surprisingly, given all of the rebuild programs that these respective fleets have been involved with, neither unit got rebuilt into anything else; the 8084 (later, the 3560) was scrapped, while the 9578 appears to be going strong as of this writing in 2022.
I wished that more of these ended up with the wings on the nose, as the completely bare look of these was rather lacking, but aside from that, I really liked the look of these units.
When 90's Roamed the Earth
Back in February 2011, I made a trip up to Midland, just north of Lawrence on the UP Kansas Sub, and found this UP SD9043MAC on the point of an eastbound manifest. The trailing unit is the NS 9578. Surprisingly, given all of the rebuild programs that these respective fleets have been involved with, neither unit got rebuilt into anything else; the 8084 (later, the 3560) was scrapped, while the 9578 appears to be going strong as of this writing in 2022.
I wished that more of these ended up with the wings on the nose, as the completely bare look of these was rather lacking, but aside from that, I really liked the look of these units.