CraigZ Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 En route to Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities area of Iowa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 29, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2011 WOW! I've seen her a couple of times at the Illinois Railway Museum - I didn't know she ever came out to play on the main line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 yep Im distracted I take it the white flags on the lead loco are the "not in the timetable" flags? White flags would mean it is running extra under traditional rules. Of course all it really means now is it has white flags, since most railroads haven't used those rules in over 25 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 29, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2011 Any slope-nose E-unit has presence. E5s do it better than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Would have looked better without the other locos I got a google ad for expanded polystyrene products for rail. Guess what I've been researching recently! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 The switcher broke up the lines a little bit, but it's an awesome looking train. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 And it's a movie star too, featured in "A League of their Own" (1992) carrying the ladies (and Jon Lovitz) from Oregon to Chicago. What the CB&Q was doing in Oregon, I don't know, but that's the movies for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 SHINY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 A pity the engineer was hanging on the horn , I'd love to have heard the power units properly.... Nice to see it out on the mainline though :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 A pity the engineer was hanging on the horn , I'd love to have heard the power units properly.... Dear Ned, Seems to be a (unfortunate?) trend for many US engineers, although as JD 'Tuch" Santucci writes, "...If it needs blowing for safety, I'm blow my horn at every grade crossing thru town, silence orders or not..." (paraphrased). http://www.railroad.net/articles/columns/hottimes/index.php Interestingly, such horn-fixation anytime someone points a camera at a loco makes the life of the guys who record loco sounds for DCC decoders nearly impossible "on the fly"... Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 'nuff said.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I guess it's also because a lot of films tend to be shot at grade crossings , presumably because of the ease of access to the lineside , so by default you get the horn warning for the crossing. Don't get me wrong , I don't mind a bit of a toot on the horn , but a lot of clips seem to feature 3 minutes of continuous horn blowing and very little else - it would be nice to hear what these locos actually sound like (if only so we can tell how good or otherwise our DCC chips are...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted July 31, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2011 I put it down to folk history - "Hear the lonesome whistle blow" and other similar themes have woven themselves into a myth that that's the only sound trains make! I'm quite sure that on the everyday railroad, engineers only use the whistle/horn as a safety measure, just as they always did. On street and similar trackage, with substantial scope for the idiots to do the unexpected and unthinkable, I would certainly be using it quite a lot, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meld Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Simply Stunning! For Sharing the link, I have a pic of it fron The Illinios Railway Museum, great to see that US roads still have that love for the enviroment too . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Lovely clip! Doesn't that whitish smoke indicate that the diesel fuel is not being ignited properly? Like something wrong with the injecters? Best, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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