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The morning of May 13 found me wake and alert before dawn, so I got to shoot part of the morning fleet on the NS Lafayette District. I am familiar with the afternoon offerings on this busy freight artery, but I don't get out too often early in the day, so my insomnia had a silver lining to it.
Here we see TripleCrown™ 256 hauling its trailers up the steep but short grade at Philo, IL. 256 is blowing for the Illinois 130 crossing behind me; the grain elevators off in the distance are at Tolono – at the bottom of the hill – some five miles distant.
Here is my current fleet of *completed* GWR locos.
Left to right.
GWR king class
GWR City class
GWR Dean Goods class
GWR 2600 class (rebuild soon)
GWR 5101 class
GWR 9400 class
For those of you who have seen my work from the beginning, you may be wondering about my GWR 5700 and 1400 classes. Long story short, they are old models, made in LDD only, so lack of parts was a thing with those builds. Thinking of going ahead and trying to reverse engineer tracepierce2592 locos, but that will be a while off. For now, my main focus is finishing off the rest of my large steam engines on the list. Containing GWR, LMS, LNER, SR and BR standards.
Space Engine 9.7.2
8640x2160p (4:1 Aspect ratio)
NASA beat me to it!
Okay, they did a 1.5 billion pixel image, I'll give it to them. And a mighty fine one too.
www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/
It inspired me (plagiarism attempt) to make a similar shot.
2007 International 7400/Rosenbauer
500/500-20A; 180gpm Aux
IH MaxxForce 9 330hp engine
CalFire #: 4X175
Rosenbauer #: 1411207
Philadelphia Fire Department
Engine 69
1996 KME (EX-Engine 116, EX-Engine 16, EX-Engine 43, EX-Engine 46, EX-Pipeline 6)
Used in rail yards to switch cars between trains.
Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.
Hailed as Union Pacific's "Living Legend," the engine is widely known among railroad enthusiasts for its excursion runs, especially over Union Pacific's fabled crossing of Sherman Hill between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming.
The Northerns
The Northern class steam locomotives, with a wheel arrangement of 4-8-4, were used by most large U.S. railroads in dual passenger and freight service. Union Pacific operated 45 Northerns, built in three classes, which were delivered between 1937 and 1944. Initially the speedy locomotives, capable of exceeding 100 miles per hour, were assigned to passenger trains, including the famous Overland Limited, Portland Rose and Pacific Limited. In their later years, as diesels were assigned to the passenger trains, the Northerns were reassigned to freight service. They operated over most of UP's system.
The second series of Northerns was more than 114 feet long and weighed nearly 910,000 pounds. Most of them were equipped with distinctive smoke deflectors, sometimes called "elephant ears," on the front of the boiler. These were designed to help lift the smoke above the engine so the engine crew's visibility wasn't impaired when the train was drifting at light throttle.
The last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific was Northern No. 844. It was saved in 1960 for excursion and public relations service, an assignment that continues to this day. Any current excursions scheduled are posted on the Schedule page. Two other Northerns are on public display: No. 814 in Council Bluffs, Iowa and No. 833 in Ogden, Utah. A third Northern, No. 838, is stored in Cheyenne and is used as a parts source for No. 844.
Cincinnati OH Engine 8
1975 Seagrave
1000 GPM - 300 Tank
#F 73503 Model: PB 23068 Shop #4672
One of 4 purchased in 1975.
Cincinnati had a total of 13 of these fully enclosed engines which were purchased between 1972 and 1975. When this pumper was delivered, this was the second due engine where I was living. If I could only go back...
California Zephyr at Martinez, CA, with two new Siemens Charger locomotives, heading to Colorado for testing.
An abandoned Baldwin AS-616 in Tigard, Oregon. This was the Oregon and Northwestern number 2, and was scrapped in 2011.
For a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjvNYlxNBk
For a black and white photo:
www.flickr.com/photos/33031095@N03/27878316623/
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