Zardoz, you can operate without a unit equipped with ditchlights but it’s 20 MPH over public road crossings so it doesn’t happen very often.
Yeah, it’s a neat shot and I’ll bet he wasn’t going very far running like that, it’s a real pain to have to operate from the left side looking out the long hood and, is that cab signal territory?
I saw them too thay passed over my house on the old D&H line out of binghamton ny. but it had two of the W.C and that mersk with two other CN locos in the lead i was out side and didnt have a camra to snap a pic with
This is verry true SD-45 are very rare i have gotten only a few shots of them in the last few years i did get to climb up in the cab of one that was sitting in a sideing it was on its way to the repair shop and 2 of the broken pistons were sitting on the floor i opened the side acces doors and the block was a mess where it had thrown a rod; this is a problem with the SD-45 it had a 20 cylinder block the crank was too long and all other EMD since have gone back to 16 cylinder arangments, the SD -45 was famous for snapping crankshafts becouse they were so long ;hope this was of some help [:)] glennbob