The local Simplot Fertilizer plant got a new switcher.
Enjoy!
Go Pokes!
Looks like a yellow piano crate; also see RI’s re-powered NW1’s, referred to as maroon piano crates. I’d like to know what’s under the hood now, I don’t think that it’s a 567.
The paint job is nice, but what’s that white junk on the ground in front?
I know this one is old, but I am wondering, What is this loco?
Logo looks familiar
CNW Cowboy at Proviso by Jim53171, on Flickr
Potash? Limestone? Sand? Salt? Can’t place the logo but the box is one of beauty… Baldwin or Hamilton?
Can’t move fast anymore…and did my time with paint and signs back in the 50’s and 60’s when my father was in the business of silk screen printing signs for real estate agents across the state plus the seminal T shirts and on plastic toys!
Invite 'em to Wyoming MiniWyo… An ant hill, some rope and a little bit of honey will fix that problem[:-,]
SC15A-3 = Ex Peoria & Pekin Union Mongrels (Republic Locomotive/ CAT /Peoria Locomotive Works)
NIWX = Northern Illinois & Wisconsin Railway Corp
How about that[!], originally part of a herd! (Cow + Calf …very much an NW-2m ish critter)
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=125694
http://chuckzeiler.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1531095
| 801 | SC15A-3 | S/N 6564 | BLT 2/49 | Ex-Citizens Gas & Coke 550, BN 550, nee-CB&Q TR2A 9402A Rebuilt with Caterpillar engine |
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I thought that Simplot made potato chips and computer chips. Does he deal in buffalo chips also?[:D]
That’s the free water that you get in Wyoming in the winter. I also have some in my front yard.
You also see the cowboy on every car that is licensed in Wyoming. I do not remember the detals, but it represents a famous cowboy.
You see the logo EVERYWHERE in Wyoming, and for a couple weeks you saw it on the NCAA Men’s Basketball top 25!!!
The logo is known as Steamboat, and is a registered trademark of the state of Wyoming, but allows its use on many things within the state. Steamboat is actually the name of the horse. The rider is Guy Holt. He rode Steamboat in 1903, and it was later sculpted into a sculpture titled “Fanning a Twister” which is located at the Entrance to War Memorial Stadium at the University of Wyoming.
This particular Simplot makes fertilizer. They get the phosphorous ore from the mine just outside of Vernal, Utah, and then ship it via slurry pipeline over the Uinta Mountains to this plant here.
Thanks for the help MC! I drive by Simplot every day and it drives me nuts as to the model. They also have a GP9 short hood too that is painted the same without Steamboat and another that appears to be some sort of old Alco. As soon as I can I will snap a pic of that one and post it to be identified. Where did you find that info?
Pokes? Whut dat?
Another candidate for the ant hill…red ants or fire ants?[:-,][:-,][:-,]
No, he just does not know that the University of Wyoming students poke (herd) cattle on the side.[:)] I grew up in South Carolina, but I knew that.
Fire ants, definitely (my cruel streak is showing).
You are actually right, Some people do that! I was planning on going to UW and actually had a job lined up working on the side at a local ranch. Ended up not going though.
Poke is short for Cowpoke, which is slang for Cowboy. The UW athletics teams are the Cowboys and Cowgirls.
the term ‘cowpoke’, usually treated as a synonym for ‘cowboy’, actually refers to cowboys who were hired on AFTER the cattle-drive to Dodge City was over. They went along with the loaded cattle cars to KC or Chi in a drovers’ caboose; their job was to walk along the cars when the train was stopped, and poke any cattle that had fallen down.