White smoke, with locomotives, is condensed water vapor. The greatest contributor is the burning of the fuel, and cool ambient air temperatures. And, yes, with the throttle open, you will have condensed cylinder exhaust up the stack. About 80% of the condensed steam is the products of combustion... just like the con-trails in the sky from aircraft.--- products of combustion are …

Here is my Top 10 list of favorites: 1. AT&SF Bicentennial SD45-2's No'd 5700-5704 2. AT&SF Blue / Yellow Warbonnet 3. Great Northern Big Sky Blue 4. CN Red / Black / White with the strips down the side of the car bodies. 5. Ontario Northland Blue / Yellow 6. D&H Lightning Stripe Blue / Grey 7. Paducah & Louisville 8. BN's White Face 9. E-L ...

2025年1月27日 · 519 - shuttle motor 504 - no exterior changes noted 62500 - viewliner II sleeper (seems to have refreshed trucks, now in the new Amtrak grey paint) 61022 - buffer 33031 - superliner sightseer lounge (seems to have refreshed …

The grey above the red stripe looks slightly different; maybe the rest IS primer. That being said, I think the Scotchlite that UP uses is applied over the yellow, then a clearcoat is applied. At any rate, I predict she'll be yellow before long. That is a neat looking loco, though.

GN sky blue scheme was absolutely awful no matter what they put it on. GN F's orange and green was a classic scheme. Best GP scheme I think is T&P's swamp holly orange and back a shown on GP-7 #1114 attached. It looked great on NW-2's and SW's as well. Edited 1 time (s). Last edit at 08/30/09 17:19 by tomstp.

Tried to check out the Spokane, Spangle and Palouse Ry in Marshall, WA but could not get close without trespassing and settled for some telephoto shots of the power from a road east of the tracks. While checking out their GPs I saw a grey GE U-boat. I could not see much detail, but it looked like an old U series not a Dash 7.

Not many trees, no obvious camping spot, windy, not much of a view, grey skies (water vapor), grey lake (salt), chain across the road (rusted). No t-shirt vendor either.

> Silver Sky 1967 sounded like a VERY GOOD year for you, what with the Reader, the IC, ROCK, KCS...if only you'd gotten in a ride on a TP or MP train it would have been PERFECT!

A colored patch on Amtrak cars with the new Phase VII livery denotes the class of service in the car. Green = Coach Blue = Business Class Red = First Class. The first cars with the scheme were released from Beech Grove this week. TRAINS

2025年3月13日 · 134 - Internal work, went down to Beech Grove two months ago. 115 remains in Beech Grove. 61054 - buffer 39046 - transition sleeper, refreshed trucks, filthy on the outside. Not sure if it was a total refresh. 32109 - refreshed sleeper 34206 - coach, trucks aren't in the new grey refreshed color.