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Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:19 pm**

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SKOL 4199 WB local

Posted: **Thu Jul 13, 2023 6:58 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:04 am**

KCS best paint scheme on the rails today!!
IMHO!!!!

Posted: **Fri Jul 14, 2023 12:50 pm**

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:04 am KCS best paint scheme on the rails today!!
IMHO!!!!

I agree 100%. The first time I saw it was a few years ago as I was driving the Great River Road along the Mississippi. I was headed North, and a Southbound train on the tracks adjacent to the road went by with the locos adorned in that paint scheme. I immediately reversed direction and followed alongside for 10 miles or so.

Here is the new logo, and new look since the CP merger, not nearly as striking imo.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:22 pm**

CP has really increased their footprint now, from Canada into Mexico. Hope they're not overextended.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:01 pm**

KCS 4824 on point of EB stacks. At Udall Ks on BNSF Ark City Sub. KCS units are on borrowed time now that CP owns em

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:19 pm**

BNSF 8420 EB empty Red Rock coal train with 2 DPU units on the rear rolling back to the mine in powder River country of Wyoming. Red Rock Oklahoma power generating station Average is a loaded train about every day about 15K tons

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:39 pm**

Those are awesome.

I need to read up on the Kansas City Southern de Mexico history.

Posted: **Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:19 pm**

Nice pictures folks.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:36 pm**

My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

*edit- that's an ALC-42.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:23 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:36 pm My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

Interesting picture, John, I had forgotten about that look for Amtrak. Thanks for giving this thread something new.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:02 pm**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:23 am
1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:36 pm My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.
Interesting picture, John, I had forgotten about that look for Amtrak. Thanks for giving this thread something new.

The railroad never sleeps, Ike.

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:57 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:02 pm
Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:23 am
1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:36 pm My brother sent me this AMTRAK Heritage picture. I think someone sent it to him, because it looks like he's mowing hay under the powerlines. Those powerlines pretty much cut our farm in half.

The railroad never sleeps, Ike.

And it seems when I am on the AAPK forum...

neither do I ...

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:58 am**

I hear that train a coming...

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:56 am**

Nice! Skip gave me a knife like that.

Posted: **Sun Aug 13, 2023 5:02 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:56 am Nice! Skip gave me a knife like that.

Skip gets (2)

for being awesome! ...

There were several of these Winchesters put together with variations of this "Getaway" them as I recall...

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm**

Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!!

My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:45 pm**

Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Nice post, Theo, and that is some great family history.

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:19 pm**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:45 pm
Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.
Nice post, Theo, and that is some great family history.

Thanks Ike, very nice memories,...even slept in a caboose for a week one time...

Posted: **Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:37 am**

Theo, riding in the engine or sleeping in the caboose, these must have been sensational experiences. This is true at any age but especially if you were a youngster at the time. These must certainly be treasured memories.

Posted: **Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:23 pm**

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:37 am Theo, riding in the engine or sleeping in the caboose, these must have been sensational experiences. This is true at any age but especially if you were a youngster at the time. These must certainly be treasured memories.

They most certainly are QS, and an experience I will never forget...

Posted: **Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:38 pm**

Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Very cool memories, Theo. I remember in kindergarten/elementary school visiting the railroad with my dad and pap, both were B&O carmen. So I never got but 1 or 2 opportunities to ride in a diesel. But my dad did run an electromagnetic crane for loading scrap metal and I was in it often. The only maintenance that Burro type crane got was him spitting Redman chewing tobacco on the cable reel.

I remember being in an airhouse that my pap worked out of in the West Bound Repair Yards. Also being in the offices in the tower and East Bound Repair Yards. My dad didn't work in the locomotive shop until he was close to retirement, around 2010, and that's after a lot of restrictions were put in place to keep non-employees out, for safety reasons.

The railroad was a much different place when I was a kid.

Posted: **Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:44 am**

Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.

Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo

) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...

Posted: **Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:14 am**

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:44 am
Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.
Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo ) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...

Actually, my uncle told me when, my dad and him where in there late teens they hopped trains from Vincennes Indiana t9 Houston Texas..stayed a week doing odd jobs and came back the same way..at least that is what my uncle told me. My dad always told me " you don't want to hear that story when I asked"..

Posted: **Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:15 am**

Theo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:14 am
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:44 am
Theo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:10 pm Loved all the pictures and stories everyone!! My father was an engineer for the B&O railroad for 30plus years before his passing in 1979..and my grandfather before him.. he would sneak me in the engine alot it was so cool seeing the countryside from that perspective.
Wow! What a cool thing to do as a kid. I always wanted to hop on a train when I was kid, (and become a hobo ) but never got the chance... maybe for the best .... as far as the hobo part anyway...
Actually, my uncle told me when, my dad and him where in there late teens they hopped trains from Vincennes Indiana t9 Houston Texas..stayed a week doing odd jobs and came back the same way..at least that is what my uncle told me. My dad always told me " you don't want to hear that story " when I asked.

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