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Western Railroad Discussion > The End of an Era.Date: 08/19/19 09:49 The End of an Era. Author: qman All good things must come to an end. No greater proof of that statement can be found than the end of BM&LP operations. Soon to be relegated to the history books, the trains still operate with elegance and efficiently to the very end.
1 & 2 - The BIG fill at MP 54 3 - MP 63 qman    Date: 08/19/19 10:21 Re: The End of an Era. Author: mundo Thanks for posting.
Date: 08/19/19 12:15 Re: The End of an Era. Author: fbe Imagine a set of 4 units painted orange with a black roof extending the length of the units at the bottom of the windows. In the middle of the orange paint a 3' tall maroon band the length of the unit with gaps for the end doors. Outline that with 1" black pinstripes.
Can we visualize a matched set of 4 Milwaukee Road boxcabs? Date: 08/19/19 13:14 Re: The End of an Era. Author: callum_out The "Navajo de Mining" units are strange enough, those poor boxcabs would have had their tongues
hanging out running back and forth at 40 mph. BTW, couple of really nice shots there, hopefully "White" makes it to the last day. Out Date: 08/19/19 14:59 Re: The End of an Era. Author: fbe I was suggesting the NdeM units be painted orange and maroon in historic respect of earlier boxcab units.
The MILW boxcabs were rated on mountain grades as an F7 or GP9. That means one E60C was the equivalent of a 4 unit set of boxcabs. Either BM&LP would be running 25 car trains or 16 unit consists. Date: 08/19/19 15:10 Re: The End of an Era. Author: SP8595 Really like shot #3!
Date: 08/19/19 17:43 Re: The End of an Era. Author: ATSF1129 SP8595 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Really like shot #3! Indeed... It shows some of the drop dead beauty that this line runs through. A shame that the stretch that doesn't parallel 160 doesnt become a tourist line. Date: 08/19/19 18:08 Re: The End of an Era. Author: 3rdswitch Really nice bunch.
JB Posted from Android Date: 08/19/19 20:16 Re: The End of an Era. Author: SCKP187 These are some really nice action photos--thanks for showing them.
Brian Stevens Date: 08/19/19 20:30 Re: The End of an Era. Author: SD45X See, that S curve shot WAS worth bleeding for:)
Date: 08/20/19 09:00 Re: The End of an Era. Author: qman Ha, ha !!
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