Nostalgia & History > SP Long Snout SD40-2, 8379 East "We are on the move!"

Notch em up!

Eastbound at Lafayette, Louisiana, December, 1988.

Regards, Jim Evans



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/17 21:37 by FiveChime.

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Nice spot for video, lots of horn and acceleration. Thanks for sharing

PQM

That is what you call "smokin em up." Thanks for sharing this one.

Kent in CArmel Valley

thanks for shooting whole train in a place rarely seen. Car types and intermodal units as interesting as the engines......

Very impressive! Only the SP could do that!
So there seems to be a lot a particular container on chassis I've not seen before. In the first half of the train, many are a light gray with a red "N" as part of the logo. What were these?

No Tier 4 locos, no whistle ban, no ditch lights, no K horn, no RCO robot voices on the radio.
Lots of smoke and noise. Love it !!!!

Jim,

Another great video! Keep em coming.

Pete

That last car on the train was a two axle inter modal car which I know did not last long. Was the reason the car had issues derailing or just being too light. ?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/18/17 15:38 by czuleget.

I am very curious about that container too. Here is my best attempt at enlarging a screen capture showing the container in questions. Anyone recognize what container company this is?

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> I am very curious about that container too. Here
> is my best attempt at enlarging a screen capture
> showing the container in questions. Anyone
> recognize what container company this is?

Good effort there. It still doesn't hit me what it could be, but I know some in the Facebook intermodal group would probably know. Some other guesses would include something that started with "Nippon." That was a brand back then, although their common logo was different from what I remember. ZIM also had a similar look, but I just can't see where a "Z" would be in that logo.

I found it! "Nippon Liner System!"

Great sleuthing Fizzboy7!! Mystery solved...