Juppo Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hutch 7.62 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > who the heck thought it was a good idea to
> modify
> > the pilots and why?
>
> I don't know who, but it must have been someone
> who stands alone in their hatred for the classic
> front of an F-unit. I didn't know it was possible
> to screw up an F9 THAT BADLY. Those things are
> completely un-photographable, even from the sides.
>
>
> Since it seems as though they're going to operate
> the F9's in that gaudy paint scheme to boot, I
> think I'll just be be satisfied with my slides and
> negatives of Union Pacific operations on the
> branch. SCMB whatever is DOA. One or two
> customers in Pajaro/Watsonville and a thrown
> together Christmas train operation will pay
> nobody's bills over a 120 year old, 32 miles high
> maintenance line.
>
> This one's for the kiddies.


The F9s are being repainted into IP's passenger scheme. One is already part-way finished.

Please enlighten us as to why this operation is "DOA" as you say, yet your beloved taxpayer-subsidised NWP with all three of its customers is supposed to be some kind of cash cow? There are three perishable customers in Watsonville as it stands, and the bio fuels customer's spur has been constructed and will be seeing cars around the beginning of 2013. There are also at least two customers up the line that recieved lumber loads semi-regularly up until the end of Sierra Northern's reign.
Speaking of gaudy, what do you call a Railpower red Genset and an ex-BN GP9 in a crappy, fading wannabe house-paint SP scheme? Whats the matter? Can't scrape together enough pennies for gas money to come down and shoot it? I thought so...