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[trainman7616]

Hey BTVFD, what bogies are you using under the UP Gensets?

John

Looks kinda like the ones used on the builtin B42? B32?-8W's

 

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[btvfd]

Originally Posted by JohnnyC1 Hey BTVFD, what bogies are you using under the UP Gensets?

John

Reply: FB-2 silver ATSF on DLS.
They need to be Mist Gray though as per the prototype picture below

UPDATE: They have been changed to the proper ones now.

 

[malbert69]

Metra And UP Action Near Outside Of Elmhurst Station. First Is Metra Eastbound Commuter Bound For OTC (Ogilvie Transportation Center)

UP SD40-2 #3212 Hauling A String Of Bethgon Hoppers To The Siding In The Cedar Rapids Yard, IA

Not Even A Minute Later A Westbound Metra Passes By

Finally A Metra Equipment Drag Is Seen Hauled By Metra SW1500 #9

 

[JohnnyC1]

Originally Posted by JohnnyC1 Hey BTVFD, what bogies are you using under the UP Gensets?

John

Reply: FB-2 silver ATSF on DLS.
They need to be Mist Gray though as per the prototype picture below



UPDATE: They have been changed to the proper ones now.

Thanks, I got them.

John

 

[brian1993]

The newly rechristened 2929 waits patiently at Cook Junction station to begin its inaugural Amtrak excursion through California. What lies ahead are roughly 400 miles of running along the Pacific Coast, through mountains and down the San Joaquin Valley. Quite the journey, but assuredly nothing out of the ordinary for this heavyweight warbaby.

Stay tuned for the forthcoming video!

 

[UnionPacificTexasFan]

Speedbumbtrucker1, is there anywhere I can get your Sunset Limited passenger car reskins? Thanks.

 

[pdkoester]

 

[Trainman10]

Legacy of the BN Part 1 running

 

[ekankal]

Nice pics guys .
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Sherman Hill: A mixed Amtrak train departs from Laramei Depot.

// Erik from Sweden

 

[scratchy]

Nice pics all,

 

[AndrewLummis_99]

Stuff

 

[btvfd]

EMD DEMO UNITS arrived for testing at the shops.

Yah the paint colors are actually for the new EMD DEMO Tier 4's.

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire...-demonstrators

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[CSXT10]

Valley Highland Is Why

 

[jacksonbarno]

Before Amtrak and their Coast Starlight service were even an afterthought, the Southern Pacific hosted a pair of trains that provided service between Los Angeles and Portland, with through service via the GN to Seattle. Trains 59 and 60, better known as the West Coast, operated via the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno, and Sacramento, unlike Amtrak's modern Coast Starlight service which operates via Oakland. Inaugurated in 1927, the train complimented other SP overnight trains between L.A. and points north. In 1933, the train was combined with the L.A. - Oakland Owl south of Fresno, which operated over a similar routing via the San Joaquin division, but by 1933 it was back to operating on its own separate schedule. During WWII, the train was very popular with military personnel, often requiring two AC class locomotives to move heavy consists in excess of 14 cars over the 5000 ft Tehachapi summit. By 1950, the train was cut back from Portland to Sacramento, and by 1960, the train quietly disappeared from the timetable altogether.

 

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Something cool is on the horizon. Stay tuned.

 

[applegathc]

^^Watch out for Amtrak 55!

 

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^^Watch out for Amtrak 55!

Photoshoot was organized by the LWP, the Sangamon County Agricultural Railroad, and Lewiston Locomotive Works. We had our track time.

 

[jacksonbarno]

SP's Owl was their secondary Bay Area - Los Angeles train from 1910 (when the overnight Lark was introduced utilizing the Coast Line) until the 1949 introduction of the Starlight (a predominantly coach overnight train also using the Coast Line) relegated the train to secondary status. Running via the San Joaquin line via Fresno and Bakersfield, the train never reached the status of its daytime brethren, or the overnight trains of the Coast Line, although it remained a popular train well into the 1950's. Boasting lounge service, sleeping cars, coaches, and even occasionally an observation car when demand required it, the Owl often ran in multiple sections during WWII, and even into the postwar era, the train's regular 14 car consist required helpers to crest Tehachapi pass. As the 1950's advanced, the train found its consist being predominantly taken over by mail and express car, and by the time of its demise in 1965, the train was essentially another M&E train.

 

[applegathc]

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