Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

BN 6430 "Hustle Muscle". The first SD-45 built.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I was taking pix of the AMTRAK that just stopped on

the lowline at Everett to look up and see a westbound

approaching the Everett Depot on the "Hi-Line".

Worst possible lighting conditions... looking right

up into a bright morning sky and of course all the

pictures are backlit. I've scanned these slides from 1973

about a half dozen times trying to make them look

their best. This is my latest effort at 1600dpi. My first

real sighting of BN 6430. I'd only seen it in Trains

Magazine prior this.

Snippy · Force Majeure

The Muscle Man lives on in St. Paul

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Slow down and ROCK!

FMB · Board Modification Mediator

BN 5753 as the lead locomotive...? yet they couldn't understand why drug testing became necessary... confuse

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

Bucket was lucky enough to run that thing back from Northtown a few years ago to deliver it to the Duluth Museum.

Railroad foamer and museum director Ken Buehler nearly cum all over himself when he was allowed to ride from Superior to Duluth to make delivery.

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

Hold up! I don't think it was the 6430. It might have been that GN400. Phukk, I can't remember! Whatever it was, it stunk of fresh paint!

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

GN 400 is the same unit as BN 6430. You ran a museum piece. They repainted it a few years ago to replace that Earl Scheib job the BN in Grand Forks did to it in 1988.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

I ran a lot of museum pieces. Snippy did, tu. Oh, and FMB. Tu rode a lot of museum pieces. Uke used to, well, we know about that. I'll say it before some wiseass says it, I may be a museum piece.

Snippy · Force Majeure

Snippy hopes to find a U-Boat in a museum some day.

It will be something like ECT. Something good may come from something so horrible. Either that, or Snippy will simply be balled up and writhing in the dirt.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

The U-Boats in a musuem. Now why dint they think of that back
in the 60's.

Uke · Cured

Although my experiences with the 45s, both the FP versions, and the SDs, the 6430 eluded my greasy fingers! Many more 45s passed through Interbay over the years... Not ta mention a few -2 versions of the type off the former SF (sans radiator 'wings') danced through our roho post merger.

Lovely beasts with that 20 cylinder engine!

mntman · Upgraded Condition

Nightmares for electricians with the rear

electrical cabinet and AC cabinet sitting

under the radiators...

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

SD-45, almost a bad dream for me when I was a new brakeman on one of our 1700's, walking over from the second unit to the lead unit, going through a 10 MPH pass, when it got to rocking and I didn't have a secure handhold, nearest I ever came to falling off an engine. Yeah, that's been 40 years ago this summer and yeah, it made a big impression on me and yeah, I know, I'm old.

Snippy · Force Majeure

Snippy put an SD45 in the sand ballast while long-hooding at Pot Yard. The Southren "F" was on the wrong (short) end. Stupid hostler helper walked over out of sight to the derailer, didn't throw it, and waved back right over it. Those 45 Dash nothings would git up and go. Went right over the derailer into the dirt.

No matter what you did with those fuckers, they seemed like they wanted to tip over on their sides. Especially when they were on the ground.

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