Thanks, normhart! It's a fun project to use as my creative outlet for this sort of thing. I've spent untold hours during this corona-quarantine-thing doing up rosters, updating skins, and just the other day I cranked out a 19 page backstory for the entire electrified line. Just trying to find that happy balance between realistic and fantasy, where in my little monochrome-based world (lol) I can keep and play with the things that you just can't do in real life anymore. It's a good time!
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Silver Lines was pretty hungry for good motive power in the 60s, picking up and trying just about any motive power it could find. It was hard to live up to steam, where what one locomotive could pull now took sometimes three or four. GP30s were a 1963 addition to the roster and were well received, but the railroad still needed just plain more. The SLRR owned 25 GP30s, which were rebuilt between 1987 and 1988. In the late 90s and early 2000s, 7 of them were lost to the scrappers torch, though the remaining units still see some use today.
Here, we find a lengthy lashup of a bunch of classic EMDs heading upgrade in southeastern Ohio somewhere around 1967.
Cheers,
SM
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Silver Lines was pretty hungry for good motive power in the 60s, picking up and trying just about any motive power it could find. It was hard to live up to steam, where what one locomotive could pull now took sometimes three or four. GP30s were a 1963 addition to the roster and were well received, but the railroad still needed just plain more. The SLRR owned 25 GP30s, which were rebuilt between 1987 and 1988. In the late 90s and early 2000s, 7 of them were lost to the scrappers torch, though the remaining units still see some use today.
Here, we find a lengthy lashup of a bunch of classic EMDs heading upgrade in southeastern Ohio somewhere around 1967.
Cheers,
SM
