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Harry Gage

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Here's a couple of Eastern Idaho Railroad loco's 2 GP-39-2's

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Sandpatch

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Marilynne, keep an eye out for some sharp looking locomotives on your FEC. I read that three rebuilt SD40-2s will be repainted in the classic coral-and-orange Champion scheme first seen in 1939! They should be quite a sight if you happen to catch one.

I'm still striking out on catching a Norfolk Southern Heritage unit - there's one nearby now, but employment keeps interfering with my picture taking. :)
 
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That's beautiful Duke -- so much mood in the shot. I can also see signals waaaay down in the distance. Some of my favorite photos were shot in the low evening light on Kodachrome 64, which loved warm colors.
 
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Sandpatch said:
Marilynne, keep an eye out for some sharp looking locomotives on your FEC. I read that three rebuilt SD40-2s will be repainted in the classic coral-and-orange Champion scheme first seen in 1939! They should be quite a sight if you happen to catch one.

I'm still striking out on catching a Norfolk Southern Heritage unit - there's one nearby now, but employment keeps interfering with my picture taking. :)
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Please let me know if you hear when the SD40-2s will be down south.

Are you on facebook? I'm not, but I found this link for the NS Heritage
https://www.facebook.com/NorfolkSouthernHeritageUnitLocater

Glad I'm retired, don't have that problem with employment!
 
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Marilynne said:
... Are you on facebook? I'm not, but I found this link for the NS Heritage ...
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I'm not on any social media sites, but I work for a very large shipper, so have access to NS's computer as part of my job. The Heritage unit that remains near my home is spotted (that's rail lingo for "parked"!) deep within the engine terminal and it wouldn't be smart to go in after it. As soon as NS assigns it to a train today, I'll plot my course of action .... ;-)
 
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I'm not on any social media sites, but I work for a very large shipper, so have access to NS's computer as part of my job. The Heritage unit that remains near my home is spotted (that's rail lingo for "parked"!) deep within the engine terminal and it wouldn't be smart to go in after it. As soon as NS assigns it to a train today, I'll plot my course of action .... ;-)
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Good luck!
 
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Sandpatch

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It's very hard to see in the link below, but a highly talented railroad artist from the 1950s named Howard Fogg once did a commissioned work of two Seaboard RS-3s on a freight for the American Locomotive Company. When you stare at the painting, you sense something is wrong. After some study, you find that he somehow neglected to paint the short end of the first locomotive! It almost looks like an optical illusion and the painting has become rather famous because of it.

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Well, I finally struck paydirt and bagged NS's Virginian "Heritage" unit this afternoon! Yippee! It's eluded my lens for over a week now, but I finally got my chance and made the most of it. The unit was spotted on the most photogenic track in the engine terminal and also the very safest for photography. The light was good too. The Virginian unit is one of my top favorites in the twenty locomotive Heritage fleet. One down, nineteen more to go. :D

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