Interesting Google Earth find: Ex-CNW AC44 in Nampa, ID

jonwray

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So, I was looking at the Nampa, ID yards on Google Earth, when I saw an ex-CNW unit on one of the trains photographed.
Here's a screenshot of the unit as it appears on GE. Number of the unit is not very legible, but it appears to be either 6706 or 6707.
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This is cool!

And we think that there are some weird graphics glitches in Trainz! :udrool:

John
 
This is cool!

And we think that there are some weird graphics glitches in Trainz! :udrool:

John

It's actually pretty darn amazing 3D graphics considering the fact that Google is generating this 3D view using stereophotogrammetry from aerial imagery.

The screen grab below is a Google Earth 3D view of a coal mining operation not far from where I live. Not too shabby for a 3D "model" that's generated totally from photographs!

SouthernWV_Coal_Mine_1600.jpg
 
I think I remember one of the Flight Simulator clones made by another publisher using stereophotogrammetry to generate terrain back in the 1990s, if I'm remembering correctly.

It'd be really cool if you could "export" a stereophotogrammetry generated "model" of a building, industry, etc. from Google Earth in a format that could be imported into a 3D modeling program like Blender, Gmax, 3ds Max, etc.
 
I don't know the date of that imagery, but its not recent I know that much. I don't think its 6707, it's died in a wreck in Kansas a couple years ago.
Judging by a brighter yellow patch, it matches up with potentially 6706. EX CNW is awesome and is becoming much harder to find. I could remember when I was little in when we first came here in 1999 all the patched and unpatched CNW you could see. There were tons and tons of them, but now not so much as UP painted them off as they did rebuilds and heavy maintenance to them. These are the isolated survivors that have not yet died and have needed that work yet. Same is fate for both patched and unpatched SP, they are disappearing slowly as well.
 
Probably from this group of UP engines listed on the UP loco roster.

AC4400CW (GE) 6703-6737 48169-48203 11-12/94 Ex-C&NW 8801-37; #6736 carries a set of OLS crossing gates and a "We Will Deliver" slogan
 
Probably from this group of UP engines listed on the UP loco roster.

AC4400CW (GE) 6703-6737 48169-48203 11-12/94 Ex-C&NW 8801-37; #6736 carries a set of OLS crossing gates and a "We Will Deliver" slogan
Yes, but 6707 is dead. It died in the wreck. It was scrapped along with the other 2 units from that wreck. I have seen 6736, it is strange seeing the green set of if OLS gates on the armour yellow, in fact, it's just plain ugly. I also want to make a note, that if there is one pattern you always notice about 6703-6735, is that they all are OLS units.
 
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