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Amtrak's Southwest Chief had just departed Fort Madison and was approaching the Mississippi River crossing on a cloudy day in 1995.
When Amtrak used equipment that matched, it looked pretty nice. Unfortunately, when Amtrak decided to go with that bland Phase V paint on their locomotives, the equipment no longer matched the power.
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311 :: 365 :: 7th November 2013
Playing with matches again.
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East Barnet, Hertfordshire.
After night frosts, lying snow sticks around in December - the month of the lowest sun.
In the 1990s Burlington Northern rebuilt two ex-Northern Pacific F9s for executive train service. They traveled around the system until the merger with Santa Fe, when they were sent to the Illinois Railway Museum. Unfortunately, IMHO, they were painted in one of worst paint schemes ever designed for a diesel locomotive - it was just ghastly. I mean, what idiot comes up with a design that paints the roof of a diesel white? Just picture this train with proper BN green cars and the Fs in green with the passenger white "hockey stick" instead.
This view shows the A-B set of Fs pulling a special south at Brook Park, Minn. on Sept. 14, 1995. I'll give it one thing - at least the cars and locomotives match.
Thankfully this scheme was given its proper burial after the merger with the Santa Fe.
A trio of Union Pacific C40-8s were passing through De Kalb on an overcast day along the Geneva Subdivision.
It's not always sunny in DeKalb, but those funky clouds and old school GE power make this an okay image.
Halfway through an imposed 10 day health isolation period, I have had ample time to observe greedy Bluejays feeding off of my wife's overly generous helpings of shelled peanuts.
One ability they have that even crows can't seem to match is to half swallow a peanut lengthwise in their throats and leave just enough room at the opening of their beak to swiftly snatch another peanut sideways and fly off with their double booty.