quasi Report This Comment Date: March 11, 2007 01:43PM
Looks like a coal train in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Ohio. My dad was
actually a boilermaker on the B&O railroad when the engines burned coal.
ToucanSam Report This Comment Date: March 11, 2007 03:46PM
I build similar coal cars for N & S, in Roanoke VA.
quasi Report This Comment Date: March 11, 2007 04:07PM
When the steam engines finally disappeared completely in the early 50's, they
put dad to work building freight cars until his final lay off in '56. From there
he went to work at International Harvester building some of the trucks that had
cost him his railroad job.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: March 11, 2007 05:45PM
"Oh, Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the Green
River, where paradise lay?"
"I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin', Mr. Peabody's coal train
has hauled it away."
~John Prine
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: March 13, 2007 02:06AM
A General Electric Locomotive with a GE 16VFDL Diesel Engine.
SP_SD9_4450 Report This Comment Date: March 15, 2007 06:59AM
Glad to see some fellow railfans here..