Eastern Railroad Discussion > A Union Pacific Business Train Hardware Question

The Union Pacific Passenger Train left Atlanta this morning heading west on the Norfolk Southern Alabama Division East End District operating as NS 955. The “Presidential Special” with senior executives from the UP / NS & KCS was through west Georgia before noon eastern today with meets in Bremen and Tallapoosa Georgia.  

#1 NS 955 west bound just east of Villa Rica Georgia with UP 2718 in the lead.  (Note the elevated hardware mounted aft of the cab with cabling run through the conductors window)

#2 Rear car UPP203 Idaho

#3 When the train traveled east last week the elevated hardware mounted on top of the #2718 did not exist? The counterpart hardware on the rear car appears to be a permanent mounting. Understand that the head end temporary mount has to be easily adapted to different head end power applied. Just what is? Some type of communications hardware???

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The antenna array is for sending video signal from the forward facing video camera in the locomotive cab to the monitors mounted above the theater cars picture window. Although they're off, they're visible the attached photo...

Desmond Praetzel, "4451 Puff"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/17 14:22 by 4451Puff.

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Thats an awesome picture would you have interior shots of the other cars?

Gary
 

mully Wrote:
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> Thats an awesome picture would you have interior
> shots of the other cars?
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> Gary
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Here ya go!...http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,4233856

-'Puff

Thank you sir that was neat to see!!!

Gary