Very nice picture Sir James. I love the jumbo unit numbers on the noses along with the "safety first" & "keep off remarks." And check out the electrification apparatus filling the sky! No Photoshop required as the pantographs and trolley wires add to the overall ambience. Well done and thanks for the "juicy" photo!
|
It looks as though the coffee cans are capping the sand fills on that side of each locomotives, so perhaps the originals were broken off, or a separate piece that was missing. If this was the case, why the yellow plastic lids are snapped on the solid bottom of the cans is yet another mystery. Nice picture, and I was lucky enough to see the electrics running in the pit, along with leased UP and Rio Grande GP30s, which made the first incursions of the diesel.
|
| Posted by on April 26, 2013 | |
The sand fills are above the first 7 on the left sice of the motor, not sure what the upside down cans are used for. And the electrification was removed around 1982 when the pit was shut down due to low copper prices. When the pit was reopened, the trolley lines were removed.
|
|