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As I recal the century series was the introduction of the pressurized engine compartment which kept the dirt out better. Also the century series introduced the angled front on the cab. The C420 I used to ride on Indiana Hi-Rail was quite roomy inside with the angled front, much more room then GE's o...

WOW the old Central Kansas 701 truly a unique gp7 complete with home fabricated cab, Oh and for the curious this unit is not in Kansas any more and as far as I know never has been It is located in my home town of Tiffin, Oh on the Northern Ohio & Western operatetd by Omnitrax (owned by local online ...

hey where is the old Adrian & Blissfield

ahhh blissfield home of the speedtrap

Natzi Southern is boring all black to hard to see

atleast when you do CSeX you get some color you can't miss a bright yellow nose and with all the lease engines you never know what you get


Oh and i still can never forgive the Natzi's for killing mainline steam back in '94

I grew up within sight of two active rail lines in Ohio, probobly why I am adicted now. Whenever I go to my parents house I am reminded just what it's like living next to a 70+ train a day mainline(B&O across north west ohio) and all I can say is it ROCKS!!!!!!! granted my parents place is far enoug...

Just a side note but when the Broadway Limited started running on the B&O the middle part of the station was rebuilt for amtrak, The section to the left (which was the most recent station) had garage doors on it and was used for storage. When the Broadway was dropped of coarse the maintainers moved ...

I grew up in Tiffin Ohio just across the fields from the old B&O, several times as a kid these cars came through and tripped the hotbox detector every time, guess it couldn't keep up with all those axles. Anyways our farm was next to Keller siding the first switch east of the hotbox detector in Basc...

Man you sure can tell the desighn staff at EMD no longer considers asthetics, this latest breed is pure utilitarian no style at all

oh well at least it has alot of spoting features to set them apart from the heard of other widecabs

It's about time the NS management realised what they lost in 1994 and allowed the 765 back on the main, now if we could only see the J run again instead of rusting away in a museam. Oh btw is there any kind of schedule as to where the 765 is gonna be?

Jee Did the old Trains mag. jinks strike again Just did a feature article on Gunn saying he wasn't about to retire, too bad the board had other plans

35's rule but only cause i got to ride one almost every day when i was a kid got to drive it once too

they keep this up and they mighnt just loose the harriman award

two ns trailer trains colide this afternoon south of toledo

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And isn't the lansing secondary limited to 4 axle power although it would be a treat to see a 100 car coal train with gp's again I think i saw one in the early 90's with gp30's no less on csx trough fostoria when they were real short on power

hey does Mac Steele have it's own switcher or anything I have seen a self propeled crane there a few times but nothing else, also is there any public access to worthington?