For the PTRA MK1500Ds.
Old look…
You will not miss the new paint at a crossing, its real bright…
Like the Red, ED!
I think I remember waking up one morning in a parking lot in Houston to a black SW- switcher and crew while I was parked across a switch track off of I-45 Gulf Freeway (?) on a Summer morning, a long time ago.[zzz][#oops]
Neat. The color scheme seems reminicient of some line from the past. Maybe KCS or Frisco?
Is it just the angle of the pic or does the blue engine have a wheel on the ground?
Dek,
'Four wheel sets, there is a motor in front of this one MU’ed, the lead wheel on both trucks each motor hit the ground…I had a frog point go south in the crossover, sadly at the same time I was using it.
Whats wild is the lead wheel dreails, but the trailing wheel stays up, then the next lead wheel, so forth and so on…all four trucks dropped a leading set.
Murphy,
It has a Frisco look to it thats for sure.
Sam, across from I45 would be South Yard, part of the now gone HBT, Houston Belt and Terminal, absorbed back into its parent companies MoPac and the Santa Fe, which sold its half to UP.
Did the SW have Zebra stripes along the sill?
If so, it was one of the oldest switchers they had.
Me thinks, I prefer the blue. [B)] [*-)]
Me thinks the same, but I don’t run the place![;)]
Frisco passenger paint scheme, for sure!
I, too, would prefer the blue, with the lettering style of the new one in white or gold.
Sam, "…across from I45 would be South Yard, part of the now gone HBT, Houston Belt and Terminal, absorbed back into its parent companies MoPac and the Santa Fe, which sold its half to UP.
Did the SW have Zebra stripes along the sill?"
ED:
I am not sure what the finer points of the paint on the SW were. All I remember was that i was sound asleep in my trucks bunk; backed up to a warehouse, with the windows rolled down, sound asleep the weather was perfect for sleeping, IN Houston(?). Yep, they do have some mornings like that!
All I heard was a very LOUD Air Horn that was way too close! Without thinking I bailed out, and ran. It was a gravel parking lot, I was bare footed, and in my skivvies. [believe me, THAT was not a pretty sight!] [(-D]
When I stopped; the folks waiting at the bus stop by the lot, were convulsed in laughter. The Switch Crew were lined up on the front of the engine laughing their (you know whats off). There I was standing in the middle of the gravel lot, barefooted and in my skivvies. Did you every try to walk gracefully across garvel in your bare feet? I think my psyche was scared for life. [|(]
The peculiar part of it is that I think those guys did that to many an unsuspecting trucker. I never knew that an EMD SW- switch engine could tip toe that close to anything.[:-,] I know they had done that before.[:-,]
Sam, if this were Facebook, I know one guy who would have “liked” this post! A lot.
Now that’s a sight I would have loved to see…
I bet that made for a rough day. I don’t see how the trailing wheels stayed on?! That’s a strange one for sure!
It is similar to the old Florida East Coast paint scheme (before the dip blue).
How long will those rascals stay shiny and clean in the swamp? (or is the “viper” on the loose at the PTRA engine facility with kerosene rags?[swg])
Might get the attention of a few that hadn’t had their morning coffee yet…
I give it 5 years before they fade to pink.
The HBT yellow on thier SWs and MP went cream in 3 years.
But they are sure shiny bright right now.