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After years of electrical issues and the need for more reliable power, the father/daughter ownership team of Louis and Jennifer Ferris, at the suggestion of CMO Judd Brown elected to use what they had rather than try their luck on the used locomotive market. With an excellent reputation of bringing to life older power and a proven plan for them, Kevin Wood came up from Georgia and performed a major wiring upgrade program on the 385. The unit would be classified as a GP35-TT by its upgrades and Kevin's appropriately named plans. A complete rebuild of the Alco trucks and heavy mechanical work was done as well, giving the unit a new lease on life.
Since the rebuild in early 2022, Louis Ferris passed in April 2022, Kevin Wood passed in December 2025, Judd Brown left GLC, and Jennifer sold the railroad to Watco, who have since gutted the roster of the GP35s, with the 385 being the first one shipped out to Tennessee to work the newly formed Smoky Ridge Railroad. Change is forever constant in the railroad industry, it is necessary to survive, but looking down over the shop while I stood on 395 to take this, I really do believe that the change here sucks.
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Captured while we were traveling south recently to get away from all the cold snow and ice here in Maryland.
Rolleiflex 2.8E2, Zeiss Planar f/1:2.8 80mm (1959), fuji Pro 400h, 400 iso, 120mm 6x6, f5.6, sunny 16 rule + 1, November 2021, scanned from negative, cropped.
listen :O Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
How steadfast are
Your branches!
Your boughs are green
In summer's clime
And through the snows
Of wintertime.
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
How steadfast are
Your branches!
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
What happiness befalls me
When oft at
Joyous Christmas-time
Your form inspires
My song and rhyme.
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
What happiness befalls me
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
Your boughs can
Teach a lesson
That constant faith
And hope sublime
Lend strength and
Comfort through all time.
O Christmas Tree,
O Christmas Tree,
Your boughs can
Teach a lesson...........
With fresh snow and freezing temperatures, a Burlington Northern freight climbs Montana’s Marias Pass at Java West on March 3, 1989, amidst the beauty of Glacier National Park in wintertime.