You gotta’ love grain season in the farm belt. That’s the only time of year that I get to see foreign power in my neck of the woods.[:D] Today’s treat, was two big CP units,#8789 and #8743, in town rounding up a unit train of hoppers, and heading on out.
Do all the Class 1’s share power with all the other Class 1’s, so that you can see literally, anybody’s locomotive on anybody’s line anymore?
Oh…and does this mean CP and BNSF are merging?[;)]
After observing the variety of motive power parked in the Galesburg yard back in June, including the Alaska RR, I would have to say that that is true.
I see locomotives from CSX, NS, CP, Ferromex, and other lines mixed in with Union Pacific power here in Arizona all the time. Some trains have more foreign power than UP engines, so I don’t think this is indicative of a pending merger at all.
You GROK correctly…[;)]
A daily CP train on the Michigan CSX line came through with CN power a couple of weeks ago. [:)]
I think it is safe to say to expect any locomotive on any line at any time.
csx -where everyone elses power runs.(although we’ve been seeing more csx lately)
stay safe
joe
Actually, that part about a merger was a joke.[:)] Send me some Ferromex units. I’ve never seen any of those. Are they usually in pretty good shape?
Just as long as we don’t start talking about sharing water. [:O]
Nick
Translation please?[(-D]
Here’s a web site that shows what Ferromex has for motive power. http://www.thedieselshop.us/FXE.HTML
Murphy,
You haven’t read Isaac Asimov’s novel with the same title?
How about the “Foundation Trilogies” or “I Robot”?
I think I will leave it up to Nick to explain sharing water…
Actually, Ed, Stranger in a Strange Land is by Robert Heinlein, one of my favorite authors. Water sharing is part of the Martian’s (for lack a better phrase) mating ritual.
Nick
You are correct, Nick, my bad…
For some reason…maybe because I just finished watching I Robot on DVD…or the fact that both authors were somewhat more free with their concepts of human nature and sexuality in their versions of the future.
I have a copy of Farnham’s Freehold…from 1964…way back when paperback novels cost a whopping fifty cents…schools could buy them for a dime each…