A pair of Ferrosur Roca passenger motors, headed to Texas Terminals to be loaded into a ship, bound for Argentina.
This is the forth shipment of them we have sent out in two years.
…Unusual stuff Ed. Loaded on flat cars, one might think the center of gravity is pretty high on the pretty heavy load.
Wow, now that is cool. They’re little long engines, aren’t they? Narrow-gauge bound, I suppose. Neat photos!
One covered and one not…did the cover blow off enroute?
Mr.B,
Couldn’t get close enough to tell if it ever had a tarp on it…
These are GT22 something or other, I didn’t write it down and I seem to have lost my short term memory!
The one with the tarp I switched around yesterday…the “tarp” is one of those cheap plastic things, like the cheap painters drop cloths you get at Home Depot.
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone didn’t borrow it when that car was in a siding or parked in a yard somewhere…it is not attached very well, just nylon binders twine…like the stuff they give you at lumber yards, Lowes and Home Depot to tie stuff down in your pick up…as cheap as the thing was, it just may have blown off along the way as you suggest.
NRE is pretty busy it seems, we had these two plus a NRE rebuilt SW, owned by GATX and headed out to the Cargill elevator, and a pair of GP 10s I think (they had round cab roofs) again, NRE rebuilds…don’t have a clue where they are headed…but the reporting marks were NREX 1018 and 1019…canary yellow with white sunburst on the side, black chevrons pointed upwards on the nose and rear…was in the 1018 and didn’t see any remote equipment installed
They are part of NRE’s E-series of locomotives, designed for the export market. The specs on NRE’s website are pretty general, allowing for the variety of gauges, clearances, allowable weights, etc. found overseas.
Thanks Ed…Most interesting…