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Western Railroad Discussion > Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA)Date: 07/06/20 15:12 Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: erielackawanna Coaster train 654 heads towards San Diego on July 3, 2020, at the Poinsettia station in Carlsbad CA.
Date: 07/06/20 15:25 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: PHall Gee, can you tell that these units have spent their entire service lives within 10 miles of the beach?
Date: 07/06/20 18:06 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: daylightdon Yikes! Maybe "Ruster" would be a more appropriate logo...
Date: 07/06/20 18:18 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: Gonut1 Gonna say that unit has spent too much time in salt air. It got pretty ratty quickly.
Go Date: 07/06/20 19:16 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: CimaScrambler That salty fog at night will slowly dissolve just about anything that don't move and perhaps even a few that do.
Kit Courter Menefee, CA LunarLight Photography Date: 07/06/20 22:43 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: railstiesballast When we took over the Surf Line from the Santa Fe, the signal cases showed what a few decades of salt air can do to cast steel. Ugly it was.
Date: 07/07/20 05:46 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: masterphots They kept the units looking pretty good over the years. But now that they're on the way out, I'd guess they're doing minimal maintenance on them.
Date: 07/07/20 09:19 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: Sp1110 Why did SDNR buy only two of these units?
Date: 07/07/20 10:28 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: PHall Sp1110 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Why did SDNR buy only two of these units? Because that was all they needed, they had a bunch of F40PH-3's already. Date: 07/10/20 20:29 Re: Coaster at Poinsettia (Carslbad CA) Author: Sp1110 I wonder if these will outlast the F40s.
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