Michigan G&W Loco Roster News, Updates & Info Thread

[GreatLakesRailfan]

See the wiki page. All three have links:

http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/M ... ive_Roster

BTW, nice shot of the 3390 at Lamoreaux, JT. My video from the same spot turned out nice, too.

My bad. I meant together. All I've seen are shots of one or two in a consist, but not all 3 together in the same consist. Has anyone posted a shot like that yet?

[Saturnalia]

See the wiki page. All three have links:

http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/M ... ive_Roster

BTW, nice shot of the 3390 at Lamoreaux, JT. My video from the same spot turned out nice, too.

My bad. I meant together. All I've seen are shots of one or two in a consist, but not all 3 together in the same consist. Has anyone posted a shot like that yet?

AFAIK, they have not all been photographed together yet. The '89 and '91 ran as a pair last week, but the '91 was taken off Z151 Friday night and replaced with the '90. So there are shots of the 89 + 91 and 89 + 90, but no 90 + 91 or the trio, yet.

My educated guess is the '90 was sent to Manistee for refuel/resupply, but it could just be a matter of excess power. All three units were likely together at some point during the exchange, however.

[cnw8835]

See the wiki page. All three have links:

http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/M ... ive_Roster

BTW, nice shot of the 3390 at Lamoreaux, JT. My video from the same spot turned out nice, too.

My bad. I meant together. All I've seen are shots of one or two in a consist, but not all 3 together in the same consist. Has anyone posted a shot like that yet?

AFAIK, they have not all been photographed together yet. The '89 and '91 ran as a pair last week, but the '91 was taken off Z151 Friday night and replaced with the '90. So there are shots of the 89 + 91 and 89 + 90, but no 90 + 91 or the trio, yet.

Here you go, with the 3839 added in for good measure.

Z151-22 Southbound by cnw8835, on Flickr

[GreatLakesRailfan]

Here you go, with the 3839 added in for good measure.

Z151-22 Southbound by cnw8835, on Flickr

Wow. Nice shot, Jon!

Thank you for sharing.

[Saturnalia]

Here you go, with the 3839 added in for good measure.

Z151-22 Southbound by cnw8835, on Flickr

Wow. Nice shot, Jon!

Thank you for sharing.

Beat me by about 5 miles. Got a shot off at Bridge Street. Just wish big red wasn't in there

[J T]

My "pool" shot is pretty much identical to Jon's so I'll post this one instead.


MQT3391-0191 by Jim Thias, on Flickr

[Saturnalia]

Fresh out of school, got them at Bridge street. Guy driving this car gets a point for attempting to stay out of the way, but failed! I waved him on while he was looking at me, but just stopped here...


MQT Pumpkin Trio by MQT3001, on Flickr

Here is that ballast gon


Ballast Gon by MQT3001, on Flickr

[bnsfben]

One of the HESR SD40M-2's is at GLC in Owosso. It must need work. I'm thinking they may repaint it while its there?? Well see what happens

[bctrainfan]

Intersesting ballast hopper, MQT, a little different than other types I've seen. Anyone know its heritage?

[CAT345C]

Intersesting ballast hopper, MQT, a little different than other types I've seen. Anyone know its heritage?

Old Alogoma Central ore car. They have Canadian truck stampings on them.

[bctrainfan]

OK. thanks, Cat!

[CAT345C]

On another cool car related note, the PMRX sand cars that go to MQT are old Wisconsin Central cars. A lot of the cars the billboard lettering is starting to bleed through the cheap patch job.

[GreatLakesRailfan]

My "pool" shot is pretty much identical to Jon's so I'll post this one instead.


MQT3391-0191 by Jim Thias, on Flickr

Nice! Kind of looks like some shots of the TZPR posted elsewhere on the internet...from the angle to the color of the power. But it's still a nice shot.

[AARR]

My "pool" shot is pretty much identical to Jon's so I'll post this one instead.


MQT3391-0191 by Jim Thias, on Flickr

I didn't realize that MQT has at least one of those "snoot" nose SD40-2's. EMD built them for UP and put some electronics or something like that in the extended nose. You can tell because the "porch" in front of the nose is not as wide as regular SD40-2's.

[SD80MAC]

My "pool" shot is pretty much identical to Jon's so I'll post this one instead.


MQT3391-0191 by Jim Thias, on Flickr

I didn't realize that MQT has at least one of those "snoot" nose SD40-2's. EMD built them for UP and put some electronics or something like that in the extended nose. You can tell because the "porch" in front of the nose is not as wide as regular SD40-2's.

3391 (ex GLLX 3003) is a former CP Snoot-nosed SD40-2. CP had several (100+?) Snoot nosed SD40-2s. The snoot noses contained the electronics necessary for radio controlled helper/slave locomotives, a precursor to modern DPUs, IIRC.

[J T]

Nice! Kind of looks like some shots of the TZPR posted elsewhere on the internet...from the angle to the color of the power. But it's still a nice shot.

Got a link to the pic you're referencing?

[Saturnalia]

Nice! Kind of looks like some shots of the TZPR posted elsewhere on the internet...from the angle to the color of the power. But it's still a nice shot.

Got a link to the pic you're referencing?

CAT has a bunch recently on his Flickr...

[GreatLakesRailfan]

Nice! Kind of looks like some shots of the TZPR posted elsewhere on the internet...from the angle to the color of the power. But it's still a nice shot.

Got a link to the pic you're referencing?

Yes.
Kind of.
Couldn't find the exact shot I was referencing, but here's a couple that are very similar to the one I was thinking of.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=189501

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=370167

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=237403

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=191485

They're obviously not exactly the same, but a couple of the elements are pretty similar.

[bctrainfan]

Thanks for sharing the TZPR pics, MKT. Neat area and very interesting power mix! How often ya gonna see a lashup of a GP10, SD20 & SW14 pulling a train thru a downtown?

[J T]

Couldn't find the exact shot I was referencing, but here's a couple that are very similar to the one I was thinking of.

Cool pics. I don't recall ever seeing those before.