Jan 10, 2013

And now a glimpse of what's happening on the real railroad.


At risk of paying $200.fine to get this photo of a clone of a Steve Welton model that he runs on the Evergreen layout, this brute of a loco was on the point of a westbound in Yardley in the Spokane Valley last Saturday or Sunday. I hear the BNSF cop is a good friend of engineer Keith Wiles.
The best shot I could find of Steve's engine is this one in trail led by a UP SD70. I'll check to see if it is the same number!
The same fine would have also brought me this photo of an SD40-2 Remote Control 3000 horsepower switch engine attached to a GP 50 B unit. Not every long ago this was the backbone mainline power now relegated to yard service! The little label below the number indicates remote control from a guy on the ground!
Don Brereton brought in his dinner train last week and set it up on the Green Branch that normally restricts the long cars such as these but we are talking photo op!
Uncle Don shows us that they truly model trains, not the real thing! He didn't know I was shooting the picture.
Anyone for dinner? It looks like the dinner train made it up north to Canada as CP and CN locos gather with the lone F unit at Bakerville, BC.

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