'ell I hear that train a'comin'

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'ell I hear that train a'comin' Jun 20, 2022 14:16:27 GMT hmca, jackscrap, and 2 more like this

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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 20, 2022 14:16:27 GMT

'ell I hear that train a'comin'

It's a'rollin' around th' bend

An' I ain't seen th' sunshine

Since I don't know when

Southbound Norfolk Southern Autorack Train
At Moreland Siding on the CNO&TP
Monday_07-June-2021

Two Units __ One Lead and One Mid-train Helper __ All Norfolk Southern
Combined Weight = 800,000 pounds
Combined Horsepower = 8,800 hp

Lead Unit:
NS GE AC44C6M #4297 _ Formerly NS GE Dash 9-44CW #9127
Built May-1997 _ Original Build Number 49786
Rebuilt July-2020 as AC44C6M

16-cylinder Four-cycle Turbocharged 10,688ci
GE 7FDL-16 Prime Mover
4400 Horsepower
Weight: 400,000 Pounds

Moreland Siding
Cincinnatti, New Orleans, & Texas Pacific Railway - Milepost 126.6
Previously Southern Railway
The Queen and Crescent Route
Norfolk Southern Railway
KY Hwy 2141 (Old Route US Hwy 127; and, before that, KY Hwy 35)
Moreland - Lincoln County - Kentucky

37° 30' 19.379" North
84° 48' 50.920" West
Elevation = 1,092 Feet

Camera is on the railroad's East side.
The train is Southbound.
Photo Left is South toward Chattanooga = 210-miles
Photo Right is North toward Cincinnatti = 127-miles.
Time for Train to Pass = 5-minutes 16-seconds
Monday_07-June-2021

The big metal box beside the track is a Flange Greaser(VIDEO = Well worth a watch).

I hope you like them; thanks for looking.

More of the same train to appear in this same thread as I get them ready.

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On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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'ell I hear that train a'comin' Jun 25, 2022 4:38:16 GMT hmca, Lillias, and 1 more like this

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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 25, 2022 4:38:16 GMT

NS GE AC44C6M #4297
Formerly NS GE Dash 9-44CW #9127
Built May-1997 _ Original Build Number 49786
Rebuilt July-2020 as AC44C6M

Spotted in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on New Years Day 2000 as #9127.

Spotted in Rootstown, Ohio, on 16-September-2018 as #9127

Other spottings as #9127

Spotted in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on 04-June-2022 as #4297.

Other sightings as #4297

Monday_07-June-2021

Do you see the "W" on the signpost ahead of the locomotive ?

Do you remember what it is ?

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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'ell I hear that train a'comin' Jun 25, 2022 15:54:05 GMT BuckSkin and Jim like this

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Jun 25, 2022 4:38:16 GMT BuckSkin said:

Do you see the "W" on the signpost ahead of the locomotive ?

Do you remember what it is ?

Whistle post at which point the engineer has to sound the whistle...blarer ... horn.

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'ell I hear that train a'comin' Jun 25, 2022 18:28:44 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 25, 2022 18:28:44 GMT

Jun 25, 2022 15:54:05 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Jun 25, 2022 4:38:16 GMT BuckSkin said:

Do you see the "W" on the signpost ahead of the locomotive ?

Do you remember what it is ?

Whistle post at which point the engineer has to sound the whistle...blarer ... horn.

Right you are !

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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'ell I hear that train a'comin' Jun 25, 2022 19:14:45 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 25, 2022 19:14:45 GMT

Mid-train Helper Unit - NS GE AC44C6M #4010
Formerly NS GE Dash 9-40C #8846
Showing engine fire damage.
According to photos I have viewed, September-2018 = No fire damage; June-2019 = showing fire damage.
Built February-1995 _ Original Build Number 48306
As delivered, this engine had a standard road-switcher cab; look at the difference in the cab between the photos when it wore #8846 as compared to it's present wide-cab configuration as #4010.
The original standard road-switcher cab had traditional engineer's seat and engine controls; the modern wide-cab has "desk-top" controls where the engineer sits at a desk and controls most functions with a keyboard; which, in my opinion, is a complete joke.

Rebuilt September-2016 as wide-cab AC44C6M

16-cylinder Four-cycle Turbocharged 10,688ci
GE 7FDL-16 Prime Mover
4400 Horsepower
Weight: 400,000 Pounds

This Southbound engine, travelling from right to left, is running "long hood forward" in the traditional Southern Railway style.

No one is in this engine; it is completely radio-controlled from the lead unit.

When this line was under Southern Railway control, and even into the late 90s when I worked for Norfolk Southern, they had dedicated converted boxcars, called "radio cars", that had all the brain-works to run mid-train helpers and rear-end pushers via radio control from the lead unit.

These radio cars had "MU" (Multiple Unit) cables and brake lines such that any single or group of locomotives could be controlled by the radio car.

This actually makes more sense than the way they do it today, which requires special radio-control equipment to be contained within the locomotive; whereas, by using a radio car, any old locomotive, or group of locomotives, could be called into service as a helper or pusher.

When you see multiple locomotives all coupled together at the head of a train, they are all controlled by the lead unit via the MU cables and brake-lines.

There is a big switch inside each cab where you set the locomotive to operate as either a "Lead Unit" or a "Trailing Unit".

There is a third choice on that switch, "Yard Tow", where the locomotive, engine running or not, behaves the same as a non-powered railcar.

The number "4010" was previously assigned to NS #4010 GE B23-7

Spotted in Ellingstown, New York, on 01-July-1991, as Road Switcher #8846.

Spotted in Danville, Kentucky, on 03-July-2010, as #8846.

Revelo, Kentucky, on 27-April-2007, as #8846.

Many other sightings as #8846.

Spotted in Rochester, Pennsylvania, on 09-September-2017, after rebuild as #4010.

Spotted in Boyleston, Illinois, still showing fire damage, on 20-February-2022.

List of other sightings as #4010

Moreland Siding
CNO&TP Railway - Milepost 126.6
KY Hwy 2141 (Old Route US Hwy 127; and, before that, KY Hwy 35)
Moreland - Lincoln County - Kentucky
37° 30' 19.379" North
84° 48' 50.920" West
Elevation = 1,092 Feet

Camera is on the railroad's East side.
The train is Southbound.
Photo Left is South toward Chattanooga and Right is North toward Cincinnati.
Monday_07-June-2021

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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