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Love this, as all critters; but I have seen enough ‘baby blue’ on this site to last me a few days.
) We have all O.D.’d on CMQ. Nice change.
You sure find your way around the Industrial areas of Hambone. Keep at it for us lazy people will you? Appreciated, I am sure, by many.:o)
Funny @awmooney there was a man and his son at Bartlett..yes waiting for CMQ and the little guy kept asking for GATX units!!! “no…those are one the CN….” More blue…;)
Haha, thanks Arnold. I meant to make a joke in the caption about it being yet another shot of a blue unit, however of a much different variety, but evidently forgot.
A couple of the guys on this site know how I LOATHED blue GATX when they were on the D&H some years ago. I would get all hyped up hoping for CP MLWs and along would come a string of these (bleepin) GATX and I was sick of them. Now, since I have not seen them in years, they do not haunt me as much, but they still do to some extent. As in when I go to some obscure railroad hoping for some “new” discovery, only to find, as in the A&O (Appalachian & Ohio) a string of those blue GATX instead of some old relics I expected.
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Same goes for Orange on GEXR. It is disappointing to go as far as, say, Utah; and whaddia see? Same stuff. Different reporting marks. G-r-r-r. Getting grumpy.
GMTX is getting into everything. Shortlines are ridding themselves of 1′st gen power and going 2′nd gen using GMTX. Funny I got A&O paint my last trip there in ’18 – went by the shops in Buckhannon WV and saw GMTX – pass.
Albany Port RR – GMTX – used to have two beautifully painted units, one SW8 and SW1200 each. Now GMTX (bleah)
Trillium (bleah)
VIP Rail Sarnia (bleah!)
CN (Bleah! but i’ll still flick it if this era ever ends it’ll define it)
SOR had those CIT sky blue junkers…
I’m with you arnold, in fact, friends of mine know how much I hate them too
@awmooney I have a model of a’South Carolina Central’ G&W unit I broke the bank for. And I was looking to modeling a GATX Geep.. After this thread maybe i’ll do a re-think. @Stephen C. Host yes they have the GATX unit on the OBRY, Wish it was the RS18u they use Welland way. If so..I wouldn’t have moved out of Mississauga!
Speaking of blue..in my early model railroading years, my first locomotive was a TYCO Conrail f unit! Time to throw on some Muddy Waters or similar Blue’s tune. 
Jamie, this is a good picture. Who would have thought a little over a year after this picture, this engine would pull its last car over to load and head for a torch….sad. Was a good little critter but age caught up with it.
It’s cut up???
Stephen, we are currently ironing out the details on purchasing the TrackMobile on site as it arrived brand spanking new with 3 hours on it. Once that’s done it will be sold for scrap.
Thanks for the update. Too bad to see it go, but it was nice to be able to see it’s little drivers moving around.
The Bunge Blue 45 tonner is sitting behind the fence along Wellington St. just north of Burlington St., across from the parking lot for Collective Arts Brewing.
that was its usual parking spot, and the trackmobile is usually behind it. For now, it lives.
Terry I see you’re finding all our photo spots and haunts in a short period of time
Thanks. The quest for a photo of the NSC SW 1001’s brought a renewed interest in the Industrial Area. I enjoy searching out the best photo locations and occasionally meeting other rp.ca contributors.
I also find interest in seeing some of my Signal work on the N&NW since my first exposure in 1972.
RIP “Blue Thunder”. This just popped on my feed. How nice this was eh…
Bunge needs to get a SW1 or SW900