So I was out on my bike tooling around and I rode down a backroad I like to cruise because It is on the UP main line. Usually I don’t see much there but yesterday afternoon there was 3 coal trains on the tracks 2 were stopped and one was heading east. I didn’t know how far up the engines were but I wanted to get some pics of the locomotives. I was hoping to get a pick of an SD90. I cought up to the locos and sure enough there was an SD90/43 behind a GE. So I hammer it and race up to the grade crossing and reach for my camera.
DRAT!!! I forgot the camera!! So I used the crappy cel phone cam and got a shot with that, then got back on the bike and raced into town and met the train there and got a few more pics with the cel. It was a cool ride.
I remember as a kid trying to chase trains and we never could seem to get far enough ahead of them to get good pics. On the bike… way different story.
I have no way of getting the pics from the cam onto the PC. I tried to email them to myself but I have a crappy samsung phone with limited US Celular service. Any ideas how to get them from phone to PC?
Ahh, your Samsung Cell must be a similar model to mine…no removable memory card. If you have text messaging you could send them to someone who can download them from their phone, or if your service provider offers it you can message them to a photo site…otherwise you are hooped!
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I made the mistake of getting a phone without removable memory. My wife has a Samsung with removable memory and it can be read with the built-in reeader on our laptop. Now tell me. Who thought it was a good idea to put a camera in a phone that has no easy way to get the pictures off of it and onto your home computer? I guess that is what we get for buying the “cheap” phone.
Yup. Its all about taking money from our wallets. I just called US Cellular and they said that I can’t upgrade my phone untill my service contract is 80% over. So I guess I will be buying a new phone from Tiger Direct. US Cellular is not getting any more of my money.
Yeah, The GO may have been deadherading from shops, maybe Amtrak’s for major rebuild? (That’s a guess) SP used odd noselights like that, it’s proably a UP repaint from the merger with another rr,
Neither SP nor DRGW had SD40-2s, they both bought the tunnel motor version. I think that is actually a bell on the nose. It is probably an ex-CNW locomotive.
That is an ex-CNW SD40-2, with the nose dinger. Used to see plenty of them up here, (ex-CNW territory) but one day most left, and haven’t come back. They are equipped with ATC/ATS gear, which has kept them around longer than other engines.
The dynamic brake housing is the shape of SD40-2’s housing. The amount of distance between the nose and hand rails looks excessive for an SD40. SP never had bells in the nose. UP never assigned any UP numbers to SP’s SD40Rs.
