Any Route, Any Era, Any Time! - 2024 Edition

[mishtahshneaks]

[CSRX]

I don't know much about the SP, but I know they slapped as much power as they could on trains, whatever the power was.

A manifest with mostly lumber products, heading out of Klamath Falls for points south.

[wwhall]

^In the latter days of the SP before the UP merger, a lot of their motive power was in pitiful mechanical condition. Train crews that I knew who worked on the old Rio Grande told me back then that if a train was called to run over the old Rio Grande with SP power, an extra locomotive was almost always added because it was nearly certain that at least one of the SP locos would fail during the trip. SP crews loved to get a train with former D&RGW power because the Rio Grande had always maintained their locomotives much better, even though they were usually filthy from running through all the tunnels on the old Rio Grande.

[drjayyyy]

SP Sufferin Pacific.

[Timbit]

Nice and clean. lol

[CSRX]

SP 9319 looking like some of the VTR/CLP locomotives I worked with sometimes. We always joked that they gave us new hi-vis jackets every year to help wipe down the oil along the hoods. CLP 802, a GP16 model, if you looked at that, you instantly became dirty before the day even started.

[BurlingtonNorthern11]

Speaking of 9319...

(not sure about the brakewheel there on 9365. It'll be removed eventually)

[CSRX]

I think that version of 9319 isn't dirty enough.

Some SAR.

[mishtahshneaks]

[CSRX]

Just some paper mill switching.

[CSRX]

It's a little past 4am, as YR1-23 gets closer to Portland.

[lineman]

Shawn, love that #6402!

[CSRX]

Shawn, love that #6402!

Thanks, though I am not sure what I like best, 6402, 6403 or 6404. Haha.

Power shots in Rigby Yard, while MSS does some yard work.

[lineman]

Yes I can see in the first screenie those other paint schemes and I agree, which one is better!

[qballbandit]

I've had fun with Bernard's latest container releases (and now messing with Shawn's too). Edit, and make endless variations!
Just have to go back and edit numbers on the individual containers now.