Nostalgia & History > A Plethora of Fallen Flags

Don't get to use that word often. It's July of 1968,
and here's 4 units ready to be shipped from GE in Erie -
U30C's for the CB&Q (technically C&S) and C&O, and U33C's
for EL and GN.

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Athearn?

Out

I can't tell if this is real, or a model!!

Posted from Android

I can smell the paint!

As we are near election day - let's get the voting started. I'm for the GN unit being best use of color in this line-up.

RMD23 Wrote:
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> As we are near election day - let's get the voting
> started. I'm for the GN unit being best use of
> color in this line-up

EL but that's my fav FF

Awesome photo! Who would ever guess that combo would be captured together? Any other photos from GE during that era?

Thanks for sharing.

pal77 Wrote:
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> RMD23 Wrote:
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> > As we are near election day - let's get the
> voting
> > started. I'm for the GN unit being best use of
> > color in this line-up
>
> EL but that's my fav FF


I agree with the EL being the best one in the picture.

Posted from iPhone

GN blue is terribly awful, EL is a great paint scheme.

Wow! What a line up of history and beauty. I'll take any one of those units!!

CR4110 Wrote:
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> I can't tell if this is real, or a model!!
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> Posted from Android


I was going to say they look like toys.

Adam

RMD23 Wrote:
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> As we are near election day - let's get the voting
> started. I'm for the GN unit being best use of
> color in this line-up.


My vote is for the Q.

Adam

I'd go for the GN if it were in GN colors. Or the Burlington if it were in "Everywhere West" colors. The C&O scheme is boring. So that leaves the EL by default, which is the DL&W scheme. But it is nice when a plethora happens!


Marty Bernard

This is one of the best new power photos I have seen. The GE building and sign is icing on the cake. My pick for first place is the C&O motor; really like that color scheme when new or clean. Can't thank you enough for the great photo.

Rich

Surely you jest, these are not toys.

A fine photo that illustrates how colorful and diverse America's railroads were before deregulation, mergers, and system "rationalization..." Thanks for sharing...

ShastaDaylight

Nitpick. Not "technically C&S". Colorado and Southern had autonomous management
into the BN, and was not formally merged until about 1980. While the Q, later BN,
was the majority stockholder, the C&S had it's own executives and board, and it's
employees senority was separate fro the Q's. The FW&D however, was wholly owned
by the C&S and existed basically to satisfy a Texas law that required all railroads
that operated in that state to have their executive offices in that state. That's
why there were various subsidiaries of the railroads, e.g. Gulf Coast and
Santa Fe, Panhandle and Santa Fe, Texas and New Orleans, among the most prominent,
that operated in Texas for years.

Personally, I'll take the C&S engine with the EL second. But then, I'm biased to the
Midwest.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

CR4110 Wrote:
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> I can't tell if this is real, or a model!!
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> Posted from Android

when in doubt always zoom in on the trackwork ... the detail in real trackwork can very rarely be duplicated in model scale ...

RMD23 Wrote:
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> As we are near election day - let's get the voting
> started. I'm for the GN unit being best use of
> color in this line-up.

+1. Would love a shot from the other end of the "consist" as well as this. Fab shot.

BSB

That's a colorful lineup of U-boats!

Bryan Jones
Brooks, KY
Bryan's Train Photos