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Padnos center cab
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:00 pm
by Dedicated_railfan123
I've noticed something strange happening in the padnos yard in holland i didn't take a photo of it but i am going to. one of the center cab locomotives is off its wheels and it looks like it's being scraped or going to be possibly used for extra parts can't tell which
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:59 pm
by GRHC
Dedicated_railfan123 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:00 pm
I've noticed something strange happening in the padnos yard in holland i didn't take a photo of it but i am going to. one of the center cab locomotives is off its wheels and it looks like it's being scraped or going to be possibly used for extra parts can't tell which
Nothing strange is going on that I noticed.
MBD&T GE 65-ton #4491 is active.
The other MBD&T 65-ton center cab is not being used but still on the rails parked on a siding. Ass
Here’s a couple of pics taken in 2024
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 pm
by GP30M4216
I dug around back through my phone to find the photos I snapped of the one time I saw this “other” 65 Tonner doing some work at the Holland Padnos property. Date is December 23, 2021. I have not seen it move before or since. Close inspection reveals it has seen a lot of “excitement” over its life and is clearly not the favorite among it and the 4491.
Didn’t they have a white centercab too? I recall seeing it through a fence at the end of one of their spurs around the 2016/17 timeframe and then one day it was just gone.
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:20 pm
by SD80MAC
The white one was scrapped in 2013-2014. It was gone by the time I started regularly working Padnos on Y121 and Y223.
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:34 pm
by GRHC
GP30M4216 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:05 pm
I dug around back through my phone to find the photos I snapped of the one time I saw this “other” 65 Tonner doing some work at the Holland Padnos property. Date is December 23, 2021. I have not seen it move before or since. Close inspection reveals it has seen a lot of “excitement” over its life and is clearly not the favorite among it and the 4491.
Didn’t they have a white centercab too? I recall seeing it through a fence at the end of one of their spurs around the 2016/17 timeframe and then one day it was just gone.
Here’s a satellite image that shows the white 65 tonner as well as what GP30M4216 calls the other 65 tonner.
I’ve also included a satellite image of what I believe is the last of what once was a large fleet of Padnos rail cranes being scrapped.
In the mid 70s the cranes were built by American and were painted yellow. Those were then replaced by red and white Linkbelt built cranes in the late 70s early 80s.
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:16 am
by SD80MAC
That's a completely different engine.
Re: Padnos center cab
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:49 am
by GRHC
SD80MAC wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:16 am
That's a completely different engine.
What is a completely different engine? I am not exactly sure what you are talking about could you please specify.
What was Y223? Was that the second shift local that at one time worked out of Waverly yard.
Here’s a satellite image taken at the same time as the others of MBD&T #4491 working on the MBD&T Lake Macatawa dockside track.