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Well for now my guess would be to lease a few AMTK P42's. They might eventually move to something closer to the F59PHI, or another "high-speed" type locomotive. Where are these going to come from? Amtrak does not have any spares. Have you noticed how the number of freight units on Amtrak trains has...

The article says "contracts are signed to purchase ... locomotives." So, if contracts are signed, then they must know what they are getting. If GTWChris has an in with SEMCOG, perhaps he can tell up what they have coming.

I'm referring to all the hoopla over getting new ES44ACs, or refurbished C40-8's, and so on.

I hate to speculate, but I did see this today: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2101245 Looks like these just came off lease and are going to Relco for inspection. I don't know if these are for LS&I, but the quantity is about right. I'm not much for trusting LS&I "new power" rumors, ...

If the south end is being operated at night, does it mean that the north end is seeing daytime service?

The question of what happened to John Uckley comes up about once a year. A number of Uckley's prints were for sale at the Blissfield Antiques Mall in the late 1990's. Now that the slides have surfaced, it seems likely that Uckley is dead, as I'd imagine he'd have kept his original slides if he were ...

Does anyone know what the latest attendance predictions are?

I may as well toss my hat into the ring.

Photos are here: http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=7787

I might be mistaken, but I think "Class 3" standards equate to a speed limit of 40 mph.

Do the current TSBY repaints and the lease units have white noses? It seems to me that one would be able to paint the top surface with a grey anti-reflective (and antislip) surface that would solve the problem of the glare.

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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I could have done it all in Illustrator, but it would have taken far longer. You can do all sorts of fun things in Illustrator, and I have a few stock locomotive designs that I keep around to play with when I want to visualize a paint scheme. http://homepage.mac.com/...

The biggest problem with a GP35? Well as someone "in the know" i'd say the biggest problem is......................... THE PAINT!!!!!!! BRING BACK THE "Ann Arbor" billboard paint scheme!!!!!!! You mean like this? It's nice that they are painting units, but I'd prefer to see something with a little ...

TrainWatcher wrote:My current understanding from information I have heard is she has been gerared down.... I would LOVE to see 79+ on her, that would be AWESOME!!!

And how does that work on a steam locomotive???

Oops, forgot about this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=213744 Also a nice paint scheme.

Uh, unless something really radical and new happened, that *is* the Grand Elk paint scheme.

Of all the Watco roads, only the Austin & Western has anything that resembles a decent paint scheme. Not sure whythey picked that railroad ... but it is what it is.

There are two feature presentations, and then guests may show up to seven minutes of their photos on a first come, first served basis. Here's the info: January 31, 2009 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. SLIDE SHOW Where: Durand, Michigan City Hall, 215 W. Clinton Street. * Program: Chris Burger, retired railroader ...

The Durand Slide Night, held in the City Hall basement from 3 to 10 p.m., is tomorrow. Are any rrfan members going?

Headlights are now nose-mounted to avoid fall-type injuries from servicing high-mounted lights. Numberboards are high-mounted for increased visibility and to eliminate two large openings that allow debris or flammable liquids from entering the cab in case of emergency. If that was the case, numberb...

Headlights are now nose-mounted to avoid fall-type injuries from servicing high-mounted lights. Numberboards are high-mounted for increased visibility and to eliminate two large openings that allow debris or flammable liquids from entering the cab in case of emergency.

Mike,

Canon embeds the actuation count in the exif data. There are various freeware programs online that will display the actuation count. Furthermore, if a camera is set to continuous renumbering, the file number will not go backwards/regress until it rolls over 10,000.