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The Krink


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When going out and taking train pictures in 2013 what

expectations do you have to see something "rare"?

I'm talking mostly about "mainline traffic" of todays

big railroads. The heritage paint schemes painted on

modern locomotives makes for many one of a kinds

floating around.

The reason I would bring this up is a ex-ATSF GP40X

has been working out of Delta Yard in Everett for most

of 2013. Only 23 GP40X's ever built so that it rare.

The "flared radiator" like the SD-45. I went to wikipedia

to get the breakdown of who owned the GP40X's.

Southern Railway bought 3 of them (hi-nose of course)

and I found a picture of them all together. SP owned

4 and I found a picture of them (I wont include my pathetic

picture of a SP GP40X with elephant ears I took at Roseville).

The UP bought 6 of the GP40X with the different trucks.

I snapped a couple pix of a UP GP40X leading my California

Zephyr through Wyoming. I caught a ATSF hotshot through

Mojave Ca. with a pair of GP40X's on the point. Now in the

last few weeks I get to photograph a rare unit in every way

I can think.



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Heres some more info fer ya Krink..

 http://www.atsfrr.com/resources/CrossetGene/ATSF_master_diesel_roster/GP40X/reference.htm



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GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!!

It's BASS_ACKWARDS!!

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Running extra, running south, maybe (although probably not) being shoved out of the yard with the only yard pusher that Snippy has ever known of.

Perhaps, *cy*, Green Team expert, could enlighten the group.

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Snippy, define yard pusher, please. It was a common practice to shove dock trains* out of Joyce Avenue with a yard engine, hence, yard pusher, although I never heard anyone call it a yard pusher. Cy participated in several of these moves.

Ah, Joyce Avenue, now a field.

Never impressed with those locomotives, rarities or otherwise.

*loaded trains bound for Sandusky, OH



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Joyce Ave Columbus Oh?

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=447550



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Interbay received 'bout half-dozen GP-40Xs ta maintain, and integrate inta the 'local' fleet. Most noticeable trait (after flared radiator inlets) was the lightweight carbody doors. Then the 'sunken' engine... More'n likely gave the units the "X" designation, as in eXperimental. They shared power plants with the GP 50s.

The engines were turbo-charged 645-F3Bs. And underneath were D-87 traction motors, geared for 70-MPH speeds.

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Cy Valley wrote:

Snippy, define yard pusher, please. It was a common practice to shove dock trains*

*coal no trains bound for Sandusky, OH

 The Southern Railway schedules had a seperate pay rate for Yard Pusher service.

Snippy speculates that it was because that's all they did. And furhter speculates that they did it conductor only since the original crew consist agreement on Green Team and affiliates is the article in the engineers' agreement that stated that all engineers would be provided a conductor.



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Calvin wrote:

Joyce Ave Columbus Oh?

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=447550

Joyce is in Columbus.

That pic isn't.  Been there numerous, numerous times, tu.



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Snippy wrote:
Cy Valley wrote:

Snippy, define yard pusher, please. It was a common practice to shove dock trains*

*coal no trains bound for Sandusky, OH

 The Southern Railway schedules had a seperate pay rate for Yard Pusher service.

Snippy speculates that it was because that's all they did. And furhter speculates that they did it conductor only since the original crew consist agreement on Green Team and affiliates is the article in the engineers' agreement that stated that all engineers would be provided a conductor.

 There used to be the "Hill" job in TQCOTW.  That's all they did.  Up to the top of the hill in the state immediately to the south and back down the hill again.



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Dropped frame for lower center of gravity and SuperSeries wheel creep.

Snippy always liked them.

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Figure by the numbers built, a mere 23... Santa Fe 'owned' and operated ten 40Xs, predecessors for the GP-50 that BN bought... Damn near exactly the same, but for the flare, and light carbody doors... All of 'em were equipped with D-87 motors, and 26-L brake equipment.

The "Super Series" wheel slip detection-correction system was another first for EMD, and a real headache for mechanical forces at BN who were charged with 'fixing' the problems found with "SS" on the 40Xs...


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Calvin wrote:

GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!!

It's BASS_ACKWARDS!!

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 Look at the fucking retards running a train with the engine facing the wrong way. no



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He was so proud of it he had to post it twice.

Poor engineer, sitting on the left side, phukking backwards Green Team POS. There, Snippy, I said it.

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You can almost smell the stale piss



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