Great image. Wow, you'd never know from this photo how quickly the road's fortunes were falling.
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| Posted by John R on February 10, 2017 | |
Beautiful!!!!! Thanks for posting.
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That's a beauty. Those McGinnis era colors really presented a dynamic image, even if it was only window dressing.
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Awesome shot of vintage electric action. I note the first unit appears dead, with pan down. Is that also a Jet in the background? Thanks for sharing.
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This is a great capture on a bright December afternoon in the heart of New Haven country. These electrics added new life to the ageing fleet and gave railfans a break from those weary winter days.
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Wow! Over the wall and out of the ballpark. They're even pretty clean! PCA voted.
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Mr. Murray, over the number-board of EF-4 309 one can see an insulator. This is a bus connection with the 305 to allow both motors to draw juice off of one pan.
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There APPEARS to be 2 EP-5 "Jets" in this image. One behind the brown boxcar of the departing freight and another over to the left on the "Motor Storage" track.
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These units were originally built around 1956. To me, they illustrate the know-how that GE had acquired in building hood-type road locos - which prepared GE to enter the mainline diesel market a few years later. The E33 trucks seem identical to the ones that would be used on U25C models.
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| Posted by FSWood on February 10, 2017 | |
When built as those Virginian EL-C locomotives they had a bus cable which allowed a pair to draw from just one pan and I believe that brown colored cable which arches down from pan, travels alongside roof equipment box then arches up at end is that bus cable. Vertical box over headlight is the giveaway: same structure on long hood end had insulators for the bus cable connection points.
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An excellent example of why the unit acquired by the Illinois Railway Museum (VGN 131, see photo #548592) ought to receive these colors. They're just too cool to lose to Virginian colors when another unit already wears those colors proudly in Roanoke.
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