JonMyrlennBailey
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locomotives?
This Thompson Sawmill must be such a big deal and the Thompsons a big wheel of the lumber trade since this American Pacific Northwest timber tycoon, the Thompson family, has their own switch engine: note the SP markings on this classic SW-1500. Thompson may have bought it used or maybe leasing it from the RR. Perhaps one of these older engines can be had for a song.I did have a trackside object fuel pump at the sawmill for this engine but I removed this since I have company-owned diesel tanker trucks at the sawmill anyway for the other heavy equipment there. The airport-type fuel truck can just drive up and refuel the loco in the yard.
I love these cute little diesel yard switchers. These SP ones bring back boyhood memories since I lived two blocks away from an SP branch line in NorCal, now NWP. I could see these trains roll past from my very backyard. Both GP7/9's and SW1500's in SP gray/red nose-wing livery. The SW-1500 "yard" switchers often got used by SP as road switchers as well as the Geeps. I remember the SP truck trailers with the pig on them also. I've ridden on Geep-drawn SP passenger train between San Francisco and San Jose as well before it became CalTrain. The SP coaches of the 1970's/early-mid '80's were the old Pullman Heavyweights, I believe.
Here is an SP SW-1500 in Crockett, California in 2001 with the correct GM EMD engine sound, gear-driven blower/2-stroke. I transplanted the enginesound of the Trainz SP GP9 Black Widow into my Trainz SP SW-1500 switchers. An SP SW-1500 always had that classic Geep grunt and gear whir. I couldn't tell a genuine General Motors SW and a genuine GM Geep apart by ear. It's a shame all that ugly graffiti over such a classic engine (graffiti "artists" need professional help):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dnPrUUYyo&list=PL0PyhRKTHXh83bh0T6fEKk6cGLAeHCFE4
What kind of freight cars is this SP SW pulling anyway? They're shaped like iron lungs on wheels. Crockett, CA has the C&H sugar plant there. My father worked as a DOD electrician at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at nearby Vallejo there from summer 1973 thru late summer 1981.
This Thompson Sawmill must be such a big deal and the Thompsons a big wheel of the lumber trade since this American Pacific Northwest timber tycoon, the Thompson family, has their own switch engine: note the SP markings on this classic SW-1500. Thompson may have bought it used or maybe leasing it from the RR. Perhaps one of these older engines can be had for a song.I did have a trackside object fuel pump at the sawmill for this engine but I removed this since I have company-owned diesel tanker trucks at the sawmill anyway for the other heavy equipment there. The airport-type fuel truck can just drive up and refuel the loco in the yard.
I love these cute little diesel yard switchers. These SP ones bring back boyhood memories since I lived two blocks away from an SP branch line in NorCal, now NWP. I could see these trains roll past from my very backyard. Both GP7/9's and SW1500's in SP gray/red nose-wing livery. The SW-1500 "yard" switchers often got used by SP as road switchers as well as the Geeps. I remember the SP truck trailers with the pig on them also. I've ridden on Geep-drawn SP passenger train between San Francisco and San Jose as well before it became CalTrain. The SP coaches of the 1970's/early-mid '80's were the old Pullman Heavyweights, I believe.
Here is an SP SW-1500 in Crockett, California in 2001 with the correct GM EMD engine sound, gear-driven blower/2-stroke. I transplanted the enginesound of the Trainz SP GP9 Black Widow into my Trainz SP SW-1500 switchers. An SP SW-1500 always had that classic Geep grunt and gear whir. I couldn't tell a genuine General Motors SW and a genuine GM Geep apart by ear. It's a shame all that ugly graffiti over such a classic engine (graffiti "artists" need professional help):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dnPrUUYyo&list=PL0PyhRKTHXh83bh0T6fEKk6cGLAeHCFE4
What kind of freight cars is this SP SW pulling anyway? They're shaped like iron lungs on wheels. Crockett, CA has the C&H sugar plant there. My father worked as a DOD electrician at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at nearby Vallejo there from summer 1973 thru late summer 1981.
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