Can Anyone Identify this NS Engine And give Me running numbers?

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NorthWest Ohio Trainz2010
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This is located in Findlay Ohio, The Seat city in Hancock County, If you have ever been to The Iorn Triangle (Fostoria Ohio **Sees over 180 Trains a day**) this train is heading out of Lima, and yes those are the M-1 Abrams tanks. Actully now looking at this picture, the train is heading SouthWest Torwards the old B&O yard torwards lima...The M-1's never return...Maybe something was wrong with them...
 
...despite the snow...

:cool: Actually that's probably a non-restricted manifest powered by a GP50hi equipped with a high short hood bidirectional single controller long-hood forward.

A very needed effect for a short single unit manifest in the snow...
 
**Sees over 180 Trains a day**)
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Railtrack are just updating our mainline station (Reading, Berkshire) to handle 120 per hour.....

At peak times the rail network/signalling and platforms max out at 80 per hour and any delay (at peak time) just snowballs.
 
butter said:
..., and yes those are the M-1 Abrams tanks. Actully now looking at this picture, the train is heading SouthWest Torwards the old B&O yard torwards lima...The M-1's never return...Maybe something was wrong with them...
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They might return on a different route. All depends on what the M-1s are being transported for. Usually deployments for Joint Tactical Exercises like the time I and others spent at Fort Bliss for a month or to staging posts where units spend time simulating the environment they will deploy to like when I went to Fort Polk with others to help units prepare for Kosovo. If the second, then yes they don't return because they get sent straight from the simulation area overseas.

I find the railcars they are on interesting. I've loaded bi-levels flats with hummers and open 89' flats with larger vehicles but these look shorter with 1 tank per car. They don't look like 89' flats so I wonder if they are part of the military transport equipment designed to work overseas. I read a few training books where those railcars are designed to be taken apart for storage but they might be in use again.
 
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