I was looking through railpictures.net and some of the Southern pictures are from April 0f 2005 and some from 2006.[:O]
check it out.
I’m really exited if you can’t tell.
Doth verily appear that the museum operation running that unit has restored it to “as built” condition, at least cosmetically. The name, unfortunately, can’t be read off the letterboard of the passenger car in the background of the second photo, and doesn-t appear in the captions. If somebody can identify the location, it might definitely be worth a visit from SR lovers.
Chuck
It says the pictues were taken in Spencer North Carolina.
dekruif;
Here’s the one ya should have got!
This was taken in 2005. The 6900 had just taken a spin on the TT. I took over a hundred photos in 2004 & 2005 at train Days at Spencer. If you get a chance to go its worth the trip!
Decided to add another. FP-7 6133. This engine was awaiting shipment off property to have the prime mover (diesel) rebuilt.
There’s a Martin Merietta rock quarry right down the road from the house. They have a couple of GP 7s they use on a regular basis. Up until about a month ago, they were the old Southern paint scheme. Someone down there must like them an awful lot because they repainted them with the new Northflok Southern running horse paint scheme. Although I liked the old Southern paint scheme better, the locomotives needed some maintainance, and it’s good to see someone cares enough about them to do it.
NS still has a lot of ex SOU locomotives in service, lots of Geeps, high nosed SD40-2s, ect. And let’s not forget the GP59 they keep in fresh Southern paint.
Yeah they seem to have alot of old stuff. There must be some old farts in charge of what they use. I sure am glad.
I think that except for that GP-59, what dekruif was referring to was locos still in the SRR paint.
As a longtime SRR railfan and SRR steam modeler, in my mine that GP-59 is anything BUT classic SRR. First off, its a low hood, second its not painted in what is considered the “classic” SRR freight scheme which is the black tuxedo. SRR did have all their diesels at one time in green, but not with the style of lettering or the type RR emblems that’s on it plus they were all high hoods. Including the last set of GP-50’s bought just right before the merger.
There were still a few ex-Southern GP35s sitting around the Wheeling & Lake Erie’s Brewster, OH shops back in 2002. Several still wore the old “tuxedo” colors, but with “W&LE” on the long hood. From what I can tell, the W&LE is slowly repainting them into the new “Rio Grande” colors.
There is ONE “Southern” unit still in service…Its number is 4610.
That’s the one I was talking about Larry.