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My son plays in the cardboard box of the Christmas tree that I am putting away. Yes, it’s March and the tree is only now coming down. ©2019 Billy Calzada
Monday, 18 September, 2023: Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) Fairbanks Yard Job heads Railroad North into the small community of Moose Creek. Here they are paralleling what used to be the Old Richardson Highway and have just passed MP G22 on their trip to the end of the line at Eielson Air Force Base. While at Eielson they would drop these 18 loads of coal from the Usibelli Mine in Healy and grab 20 empties that would eventually make their way back to the mine. Eielson AFB is as far Railroad North as you can get and takes loads of coal two to three times a week for their Central Heat and Power Plant on base.
3003 and 2006 again hold down the Yard Job for another day. GP40-2 3003 has spent is entire career with the railroad. Being built in 1975 it has kept its original number and paint. It is only one of three left in the classic black and gold scheme with the other two being 3001 and 3006. 2006 however is a GP38-2, originally being built for the Pen Central in 1969 as 7754. Being bought by the ARRC from Conrail in 1985 it has spent the rest of it’s carrier in the last frontier. This duo is a nice example of the old and new paint schemes on the railroad as they head as they head North through a tunnel of fall trees.
Alaska Railroad Corporation, Fairbanks Yard Job
Unincorporated Community of Moose Creek
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Medium Bluish Violet - 4130311 (Eeyore sculpture?)
Light Royal Blue - 6014093
Brown - 4497002 (Human sculptures)
Warm Yellowish Orange - 4243869
Dark Azure - 6089775
Aqua - 6088594 (Now in sets with a new ID)
This part has been seen in Light Yellow, Light Reddish Violet, Medium Yellowish Orange, Tr. Br.Bl.Viol. w/ Glitter, Silver, Glitter Nature, and various transparent colors.
This part has IDs in Nougat, Light Yellowish Orange, Metallized Gold, and Spring Yellowish Green.
This came as a set, and it is like new!
Revuenon 1.4/55 lens on the camera, and the additional Revuenon-Special 2.8/35 and 2.8/135.
As back-up there is the Revue S-130 lightmeter, the set is complete with all booklets, lenscaps and Revuetron AC32 flash (not in picture).
Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railroad Baldwin-Westinghouse Class B 3003 at the Milwaukee Road interchange near Elgin, Illinois, date and photographer unknown, scanned from a 2¾X4½ print, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 3003 was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for stock (c/n 57070), completed September 21, 1923. It was purchased by the CA&E (as # 3001, delivered as # 3003) in 1926 and was rated at 400 horsepower with four 562D5 Westinghouse traction motors. The undulating profile and light construction of the CA&E right of way stressed the frame and truss rods were added after delivery. It was scrapped in August 1963. The following is excerpted from the book, Interurban Electric Locomotive From Baldwin-Westinghouse, by Joseph A. Strapac.
In order to sell to customers whose requirements (and electrical and track structure capacity) would not support a Class D, Baldwin-Westinghouse downwardly engineered this design in order to replace the Class A in its catalog. The better built steam road subsidiaries and those lines that delivered considerable tonnage per train could order larger Class D motors (and even operate them in multiple), while B-W could offer a smaller unit to potential customers with less demanding requirements. The Class B locomotives were better suited than the D's for use on lightly built interurban lines, due to their reduced weight and power draw. One of the reasons there was a Baldwin-Westinghouse at all was because Baldwin Locomotive Works was so successful as an integrated manufacturer. Baldwin had sufficient capacity in its tender shop in downtown Philadelphia that it could easily underbid any proposed assembly by Westinghouse's own forces out in East Pittsburgh. Baldwin built the structure of each locomotive, riveting together an empty box with trucks and couplers (and at least rudimentary train air brakes), based on the familiar technology of locomotive tenders. The frame itself was assembled from standard steel shapes, with heavy Baldwin castings at each end to tie everything together. Even the trucks themselves were adapted from tender trucks used beneath thousands of Baldwin-built steam locomotive tenders. Windows and a host of additional appurtenances would be installed, then the locomotive-to-be would be shunted out to the interchange track. It would be handed off to a line-haul railroad and waybilled (as if it were a freight car) across Pennsylvania to the East Pittsburgh Works of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing. Westinghouse installed and tested electrical gear at East Pittsburgh. The locomotive would be finish painted, tested and otherwise prepared for delivery. A short stretch of adjustable-voltage overhead behind the Works allowed road testing (and publicity photographs) when the locomotive was complete. The track was historically 'pantograph country' so locomotives destined for customers who used only trolley poles or third rail were often pictured at this site fitted with pantographs, which would be removed prior to shipment. In the early years the consortium delivered interurban freight locomotives to specific order, rather than producing them on speculation for stock. However, Westinghouse occasionally ordered freight locomotives from Baldwin for stock, or in anticipation of orders not yet in hand. This practice tied up capital, but as the market for new locomotives dwindled (and credit grew tighter) during the late 1920's, Westinghouse decided to keep at least one or two new locomotives (with generic equipment) on the back lot in East Pittsburgh.
Number 3004 is also pictured. It was also built for stock, completed April 8, 1924 (c/n 57717), ordered May 10, 1926 by the CA&E as # 3002 but delivered as # 3004, also scrapped in August 1963.
Came around the corner and there was 3003 and 3006 heading to Wainwright....my day went better after that!
Simple mind....simple pleasure....
Reproduced 35mm Slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Erwin, TN in March 1978
On March 29, 1978 Dad shot the wreck of Clinchfield SD40 3003. This unit was involved in a derailement at Wingina, Virginia on 8/24/77. After sitting at Erwin, Tennessee for nearly a year, it was finally rebuilt. This unit became SBD 8279 and is still in operation today as CSX SD40-2 8338.
CP steam 4-4-4 3003 in its waning years at the Glen shop in Montreal.
When I was hanging around Ottawa West in my pre-teen years, there was a Saturday-only train from Windsor Station to Ottawa via the Lachute Subdivision, #427, later becoming #137; Ron Ritchie called it the ‘Bytown Breeze’..it didn’t stop everywhere like the other 2 daily trains did.
One Saturday, the light engine showed up at Ottawa West for servicing as usual, and it was the 3003, seen here. Usually #427/137 had a G5, often St. Luc-based 1261.
I rode over to the shop with the switchtender, my first and last ride in a 4-4-4.
From the Ottawa Journal 4 September 1936
New C.P.R. Train Being Shown Here
Semi-Streamlined Engine and Coach in Broad Street Yards.
A new light weight semi-stream lined train of the Canadian Pacific Railway, arrived at the Broad Street yards Thursday afternoon from Carleton Place. It will be on view to the public until 10 o'clock Saturday night. The train may be inspected from 11 a.m. to 10. p.m.
Representing the last word In modernization the train was headed by the new 4-4-4, high speed semi-streamlined locomotive No. 3003, and. consists of mall and express, baggage, buffet and two first class coaches. The train is fully air conditioned throughout. The locomotive is capable of 110 miles an hour.
The passenger coaches are of light-weight design and semi- streamlined.
Officials who arrived with the train included A. Peers, master mechanic, Montreal; R. F. Thomas, general airbrake inspector, Eastern Lines; Jules Fortier, assistant superintendent Smiths Falls; F. G. Perkins, division master mechanic. Smiths Falls; O. G. Riepert electrical engineer, Quebee division; W. Gregory, electrical engineer, Angus Shops, Montreal; and C. Beaudry, passenger agent Montreal.