It was a beautiful day in Austin TX and the Austin Area Terminal Railroad took advantage of it. When I drove by their maintenance yard, most all of their locomotives were lined up on a siding and a crew with a pressure washer was giving them all a bath. Nice and clean. Looked good in the sun.
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I wonder if the people at Southern Pacific knew that this is possible.
As Curly Howard would say, “It ain’t spring yet.”
Nice! Wish I coulda been there. Grey and cloudy here, but any weather is good weather in California (Verrry boring meteorologically).
Did they get behind the ears too??? wish we could have been there.
stay safe
Joe and matt
I recall one day back in about 1976 I was in LaCrosse, WI and stopped by the Amtrak station area and at that time the bridge now over the tracks had not been built and Milwaukee Road had a small engine service area near the station. Well, for some reason a yard worker was steam pressure washing what looked like a GP38 in the orange and black paint scheme. It was really interesting seeing all the months and years of grime being stripped away and I watched for about 45 minutes until most of the unit was cleam…it looked very nice…but I remember thinking to myself that this was a pretty inefficient way of washing a road unit, especially for a Class I road like MLW. But I will always remember that day and the unusual experience of seeing a road unit hand washed.