driving home today i noticed 2 NS engines with 1 heavy weight car and the front engine appeared to be a gp38 and the second engine appeared to be some sort of prototype engine painted brown high nosed gp38 but strangely it had a dip the cab and 6 wheel trucks i will post the photo as soon as possible
To my knowledge, the GP38's had only four wheel trucks.
Rich
sorry i cant fiqure out how to post the photo
Quote from: mr shay on March 15, 2012, 06:16:53 PM
sorry i cant fiqure out how to post the photo
If only a photo, up load to Photo Bucket and then up load the photo bucket link here. Free to do.
That is how photos are generally posted here.
http://photobucket.com/
When you get your account, there will be four options. Use the fourth one, IMG. Copy that one to the forum here.
Try to figure out what you want for albums. This can get addictive and you loose track of where a particular photo is.
Rich
ok its up there how do people view it
Here is a photo from my album I just uploaded.
With a browser opened to the Bachmann forums and a second browser opened to Photo Bucket, You see the four options. IMG is the fourth one. Place the PC cursor over it and click. You will see copied. Go to the Bachmann forum and post that into the message.
Don't try to click on the IMG link in my photo. That will not work. Some have tried that.
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/Flat%20car/Posting%20photos/Screenshot-1.png)
Rich
Quote from: mr shay on March 15, 2012, 06:41:07 PM
ok its up there how do people view it
Where is "There"?
(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p612/mrshay/Dadsphone009.jpg)
sorry my thumb blocked the end of the car but at least i got most of the train
Ok, I see it in that message.
Rich
any idea what the second engine is
I am having trouble reading the text on the loco. Looks like NS11 but cannot pick out the other letters. I see what looks like a business car.
Rich
Below is a March 15, 2012 roster.
http://www.nsdash9.com/roster.html
Rich
friend says it is a reasearch slug
Quote from: mr shay on March 15, 2012, 07:04:12 PM
friend says it is a reasearch slug
Could be.
Can you pick out any letters and numbers? I might be wrong on the NS11.
Rich
engine number ns34
Quote from: mr shay on March 15, 2012, 07:20:39 PM
engine number ns34
Looks like it. I just found the photo of NS 34. Fun research. Must have been renumbered.
http://www.altoonaworks.info/pics/ocs.html
Where did you see this?
I live in Western, MA, Pan Am RR country, called the Patriot Corridor and see a NS once in a while. Both companies are linked.
The rails though my area are being upgraded to double track for the Amtrak, Vermonter.
Rich
Yep, that's the NS geometry train, I've ran into it more than once in person. :)
that research slug is not actually a locomotive, but contains the instrumentation for measuring forces related to the track which are read in the passenger car that travels with the train. i am not exactly sure of its capabilities, but it is something along the lines of the doodlebugs that sperry uses.
it is still sitting on a sidding in burns harbor porter county indiana
Some searching for Norfolk Southern research train. Research slug.
http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=8208
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ymlo944-c
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopicture.aspx?id=13766
How to model one.
http://www.southernexchange.net/geometry.html
Rich