| Posted by FSWood on April 3, 2020 | |
What a sight! I only favored BN as a youngster because they featured a lot of covered wagons and other old power out West where I grew up. We lived next to the Milwaukee Road Chehalis Sub, but my grandma lived in Yelm, WA. I could watch down the street from her yard as these old veterans ran on the now mostly abandoned Prairie Line. Oddly enough pretty much the same time the Milwaukee left the West, BN shuttered the Prairie Line south of Yelm, so I lost on both accounts. And the covered wagons were pretty much retired by 1981. Thanks for sharing this.
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| Posted by FSWood on April 3, 2020 | |
There has been a mixup somewhere, that's not my comment, I didn't grow up there, and my comment was about the locomotive's type and appearance; "Posted by FSWood on April 3, 2020 What a sight! I only favored BN as a youngster because they featured a lot of covered wagons and other old power out West where I grew up. We lived next to the Milwaukee Road Chehalis Sub, but my grandma lived in Yelm, WA. I could watch ..."
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What a beautiful cow & calf. I guess if switchers were still being made today this is what they would look like. My hat goes off for the designers & builders of the brace of locos.
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I wonder what the impetus for such a custom design was. Looks to me as if an MP15AC and slug would do as well. But I do like the Horrible Heffalump.
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