HARSCO RAIL Spreader/Ditcher with MQT 2004

[J T]

Awesome clip of the road train meeting the plow special. Probably the first meet in Grant for a LONG time.

I would have kept that part of the clip going longer, but I happened to pick a spot to stand right near a joint in the tracks, which also happened to have a little dip. The whole ground was shaking as the train was passing by the joint. Lesson learned to pay closer attention to where the joints in the rails are when recording video.

You should have seen the awesome dance moves my 3 year old was doing to your music J T

Trains and dancing...gotta get 'em started early, Randy!

[Saturnalia]

Well a second? one, for BNSF, came down a few days ago...and I found this on YouTube from the first one. It is a video from HARSCO, and was shot on the Mighty Marquette during testing:

[CAT345C]

Here it is the other night when it was waiting for pickup.

IMG_9686 by Mike Tabone, on Flickr

[amtrak1007]

Here I was looking for another Bah-humbug express...

[CAT345C]

Here I was looking for another Bah-humbug express...

Its gonna be a different kind of Buh Humbug...

[J T]

Well a second? one, for BNSF, came down a few days ago...and I found this on YouTube from the first one. It is a video from HARSCO, and was shot on the Mighty Marquette during testing:

Nice shaky videos. I guess no one had a tripod.

[Saturnalia]

Debut is due as soon as a lot of snow flies:

http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20New ... tcher.aspx

No mention of the fabrication in Michigan...Shame

[ThatRailfanningKid]

Here I was looking for another Bah-humbug express...

Its gonna be a different kind of Buh Humbug...

Love the decorations on those locos. The line through Grant and Newaygo is a great picturesque background for trains. Love the bridge over the Muskegon river.

[railohio]

If anybody else has photos of the new Harsco spreaders from the past few years, please send me a private message.

[GP30M4216]

My local NPR station in Connecticut (which also covers some of Long Island) aired this story a day or two ago:

That new Harsco Spreader LIRR purchased last year? They call it Darth Vader.....

http://wshu.org/post/lirrs-darth-vader- ... snow-debut

[msurailfan]

Well a second? one, for BNSF, came down a few days ago...and I found this on YouTube from the first one. It is a video from HARSCO, and was shot on the Mighty Marquette during testing:

Best part of the video is easily when it mows down a wooden birdhouse at the end of the film. They couldn't work around it? jeez

[CAT345C]

We don't need bird houses on the MQT ROW for crying out loud north of Newyago the whole railroad is in a state forest.

[Standard Railfan]

Some kid in grade school put his heart and soul into that birdhouse and you guys run it right over like a balsam tree. Is there no humanity?