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Re: On a liter note/40 years. Whats left the RR property?
Author: Erik H.
Date: 04-03-2011 - 18:16
The local agent/depot.
REA/railroad local delivery trucks.
City ticket offices.
Wig-Wag crossing signals.
Crossbuck posts that have the railroad's name on them.
Crossbucks that are built to a railroad's specification, rather than the MUTCD (U.S. DOT) specification.
Anything "Alco" or "Baldwin". Anything powered by an EMD 567 prime mover. Any locomotive with a high nose (unless you're on Norfolk Southern).
Purpose built switching locomotives are starting to get rare; they are all but extinct here on the BNSF side of Portland (there's still one left for the Guilds Lake trackage, but everything else is switched with Geeps. UP still has a few but they are definitely in decline and no longer used in any of the intermediate towns between Portland and Eugene. The Oregon City trackage that mandated the use of SW- type locomotives is now out of service due to the closure of the paper mill there.)
REA/railroad local delivery trucks.
City ticket offices.
Wig-Wag crossing signals.
Crossbuck posts that have the railroad's name on them.
Crossbucks that are built to a railroad's specification, rather than the MUTCD (U.S. DOT) specification.
Anything "Alco" or "Baldwin". Anything powered by an EMD 567 prime mover. Any locomotive with a high nose (unless you're on Norfolk Southern).
Purpose built switching locomotives are starting to get rare; they are all but extinct here on the BNSF side of Portland (there's still one left for the Guilds Lake trackage, but everything else is switched with Geeps. UP still has a few but they are definitely in decline and no longer used in any of the intermediate towns between Portland and Eugene. The Oregon City trackage that mandated the use of SW- type locomotives is now out of service due to the closure of the paper mill there.)
