Does anyone know what type of diesel engines these are. I am not good at identifying diesels and have no clue what they are. This picture was taken in Washington near the Birch Bay refinery.
Thanks for the help.
Also can anyone recommend a good book for identifying diesels.
Link doesnt work.
Emma, access to your link was denied to me. If your picture was of a major railroad’s locomotives, we should be able to do it with reporting marks and numbers. Otherwise, you’ll need to find someone familiar with the loco(s) in question.
The latest successor to the good old Diesel Spotter’s Guide was put out by Withers Publishing, and has a lot of illustrated examples of locomotives you’d see nowadays. Somebody should publish an updated version.
Is this the correct link, http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5729/1392/1600/1360two.jpg ? I posted the photograph at that location below. If so, the fist one looks like a GP38-2 (or GP38), followed by a GP30 (or a GP30 that was rebuilt and now called a GP39), followed by another GP38-2 (or GP38).
“The Official 2005 Edition Locomotive Rosters & News”, published by DPA LTA, ISBN 0-919295-40-1 lists BNSF 2092 as a GP38-2, BNSF 2832 as a GP39M, and BNSF 2311 as a GP38-2.
ericsp,don’t know if it’s me & my computer or what,but I’m being
denied access to the link you gave,along with emmar’s.
it is the same thing with me locomutt, cannot get through either link.
I got through on Eric’s link. Might be my eyesight, but I couldn’t see a difference.
The annual DPA/LTA roster books are handy, and identify by the numbers any locomotives anyone’s likely to see, but we still need an up-to-date spotter’s guide that will include the GEVOs and ACEs, and how to distingui***hem from older models (I see enough that I can usually tell, but others may not be so lucky).
Sorry the link is not working for some people. It worked for me when I used it in the test forum. I will try to figure out why it is not working. Thanks for the help with the locomotive id ericsp.
it worked here.
Adrianspeeder
Carl & Emma, two of the numbers were swtiched (1630 instead of 1360). Whenever I post a link, I always go to the page, highlight the location, copy it, then paste on here. That way I am assure the link I posted does not contain any errors.
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