Weekly Photo Fun 10/9 - 10/15/15

[bdw9535]

WPMA-17 with a GE B23-7 switches the Peter Lumber Company.

Bruce

[kamerad47]

Ex Conrail B23-7 now PRT 148 sitting in the yard !!! :o hock:

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Why not? Another Conrail B23-7!

[Charlie B]

Here's a cut out view.     Charlie

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Ouch! What happened there?

[Charlie B]

Ouch! What happened there?

I don't know, it was just on a train coming through town.
Charlie

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Finished my B1! DCC lights and all! The LED in particular are ultra bright, and are like small flashlights.







Size comparison with a 44 tonner. When I was young, before I realized how hard it is to find (and afford) brass like this, i though I'd use a B1 instead of a diesel. Now I can, though I also know these were more passenger switchers than freight switchers.

[railroader9731]

B23-7s yup I can do this one Here I found a B23-7 on a west bound freight train .

[bdw9535]

Another Conrail B23-7 on WPMA-61, a transfer run between Mannheim and Camden Yards.

Bruce

[Catt]

Staying with the B23-7 theme. CSX B23-7 5542 leads Dash8-40B 5937 on a run through on Grande Valley Railway trackage.

[e-paw]

Like the B-1 GEC.. It's almost as small as this Davenport I found today in south Kearny NJ.


   

They tried to hide it the best they could, but half a football field and two fences are no match for the big zoom.,,,Check out the tight radius coupler on it.

   

Then on the way home I found a five unit set of Alco's at the Gap.    

Glad I remembered to take my camera to work.

[Charlie B]

They look similar to a B23 but this is a new C30-7 on the old P&W line out of New Castle. February, 1979     Charlie

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Like the B-1 GEC.. It's almost as small as this Davenport I found today in south Kearny NJ.

They tried to hide it the best they could, but half a football field and two fences are no match for the big zoom.,,,Check out the tight radius coupler on it.

Then on the way home I found a five unit set of Alco's at the Gap.

Glad I remembered to take my camera to work.

Gotta love the little industrial switchers. I'm somewhat surprised they aren't better represented by models. granted, class ones almost never owned any (except for a few "mainstream" types like the GE 44 and 70 ton models). This is one area where I like bachmann. They have the right idea making the various small switchers in generic colors, because you can get away with that in most cases. there is potential there for creative modeling without bending reality too terribly.

Still, Davenports, Whitcombs, and others tend to go unrepresented. BLI is making a plymouth, but I wonder how widespread those really are.


Also, always gotta bring the camera! I was loosing my mind for the week I had to send mine back in for repairs!

They look similar to a B23 but this is a new C30-7 on the old P&W line out of New Castle. February, 1979 Charlie

In my slow but unavoidable descent into rivet counting madness, I've learned with the U-boats and Dash-7s, to ALWAYS count the tall engine doors, as the main spotting features are often unreliable at a glance for GE locomotives prior to the current "styling".

I mistook a late model U30B for a U23B for exactly this reason! While the older versions of the U30B are distinctive, the last phases had a more "modern" radiator section. Such is the case with the Dash-7 era equivalents, as well as early Dash-8s.

[railroader9731]

Here is a conrail unit setting just out side the yard tracks.