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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING. Remember all of those names. I am even old enough to remember when the steamers were still pulling for those lines. Hope to see some of them up close. Thanks again for sharing.
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Those are all beauties. My favorite is the nickel plate road!
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Hoping one day that I can get on one of these, doesn't matter which one. Too bad they're AC units mostly used for hauling coal trains and those just don't come here as often. Have you seen one in person Zach? Couple of guys have seen one at the GE plant in Erie PA that is on one of our pools and have seen the Conrail I think in Toledo.
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No I haven't seen any yet, but the Pennsylvania one has been in one of our yards once and one other time in union station for some rr function in Chicago
I was told they all came with dpu setup, so expect them to stay out east mostly as AC power is some major pulling/pushing power for coal trains and mountain !!!!
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I haven't seen them through Latrobe yet. Yes thanks for sharing. I like the PRR,Conrail,Jersey Central and!!!!!. I have the Lionel-PRR and the 'Boy Scout' locos.I really like the sounds of the 'Boy Scout' loco,of course its more $ than the rest. Probably will get some of them-here goes the budget for the next 10 yrs!
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Outstanding Locos Dewoc!!!!! I especially like the Lackawanna, Penn Central, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley ones!!! These roads bring back some childhood memories!!!
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little update to the Heritage Units here is a photo at Spencer NC roundhouse showing all 20, the engine on the actual turntable is not a heritage unit, just a regular NS SD70ACe - NS 1030  and here is trains 961 and 960 (Heritage Unit power moves to Spencer NC) NS 960 (11 units) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ya47-OTGCYNS 961 (10 units, some are repeated cause there are not 21 units total) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCcYLYAGyBU&feature=related
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in the year that i have worked for NS i have never seen a display screen that showed all this information, so when i saw this screen worked it was pretty neat to see what is displayed. I remembered that Gaz or somebody took a picture of their display screen showing what the computer shows the operator on a crane and this is pretty similar. sorry about the glare, but the sun was on my side of the engine and there was nothing i could do to cut down the glare   pretty big difference in engine output from pulling hard at only 13 mph and cruising at 30 mph
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I just love that kind of power!!!!! Nice share Dewoc!!!!
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Was it a desktop?
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yes, but this was the conductors side of the engine, not the engineers
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I've had a couple of them before on my side, rattle boxes just like the junky EMD's. It's like the old IBM computer screen when they first came out, still even says CONRAIL haha.
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yeah, a victim of the NS repaint, it was a good puller though, EMDs are better pullers in my opinion, they load faster and respond better, GEs are good long haulers and maintains speed, whenever you have and EMD and a GE together the EMD loads and then a few seconds later you can feel the GE kick in and start pushing while the EMD has been dragging the GE the whole time
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DeWoc19 wrote:yeah, a victim of the NS repaint, it was a good puller though, EMDs are better pullers in my opinion, they load faster and respond better, GEs are good long haulers and maintains speed, whenever you have and EMD and a GE together the EMD loads and then a few seconds later you can feel the GE kick in and start pushing while the EMD has been dragging the GE the whole time Although I have never operated any locomotive, I have been a life long train fanatic . Love the EMD's but the GE's retain their Alco heritage somewhat. Talked to a small handful of engineers over the years and they said basically the same thing when EMD's are coupled to GE's. Thanks for posting NS heritage fleet,it's quite impressive.
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One of the most interesting pics i have seen in a long long time fantastic i love these big american engines thanks for posting it would make some wall picture. regards gus.
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^^^ start saving Woc^^^
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ahhh there you are Graham, I was wondering when you would chime in, I just ordered the Illinois Terminal (bright green) and the Nickel Plate Road ones today.... this obsession is just as bad as cranes!!!
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way cool man.... i would like to see some of these in person but they are all AC power, most of them are gonna probably stay out east, no real need for that kind of power in Chicago. hopefully one day though!
the good ole RIT, yeah i hated RIT when i first got trained on it, i still prefer the paper work order but the RIT has its advantages. Think ill get remote qualified next, not really sure how i feel about remote yet, they claim its safer, i personally dont believe so
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Yeah it seems like the paper is much easier, just have to get used to it that's all I suppose. I am surprised this was there today also, must've came in on the 14T which is an auto rack train from Bellevue, it was sent out on a local that goes to Canada so it'll be back later today, wonder where it'll be headed next, east or west. The colors were pretty much the same shades as BNSF, besides the underside here is black and theirs is grayish.
Buffalo tried out the RC and guys were bombing it on purpose I heard just so they didn't have to do it. You wouldn't happen to know a guy name Anthony Cole, would you? He was in my GA class last year and was headed to Chi-town
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