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[railwayhistorical]

Mount Hood Railroad

To follow up on the previous post, here are some images taken of the Mount Hood Railroad, in Hood River, Oregon. It originally operated between 1906, when it was built, and 1987. At that time it was purchased and transitioned to primarily a tourist operation.

The railroad is one of the few that still utilize switch-backs. The station dates from 1911, built by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The GP9 seems to have been built for the Chesapeake & Ohio in 1957.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken March 20th 2023.

[onepiecefanz]

Are you being serious asking why the members of cp9 are being promoted? They were a highly skilled assassination unit. And during the time skip I'm sure they were still if not even better after enies lobby. Lucci and Kaku became part of cp0 after that. And it wasn't cause they felt bad for them? The strawhats beat them but that doesn't mean they were bad at what they did. They may not be the threat they used to be but don't act like they weren't ever a legitimate threat.

Look, I'm surprised none of them got fired after what happend on Enies Lobby! Just take a moment and see it from a marine perspective right.

- The most dangerous woman in the world escapes

- A secure/important government island gets destroyed

- BY A TINY ASS pirate crew no-one heard about

- All agents get their asses kicked

- They ran off with the giants (they used as slaves)

- The weapon blueprints get burned

Basically their entire mission they worked for years for completely and utterly fails. Someone has to take responsibility for that. The Marines need to explain this to the world government right...

And we all now how forgiving they are, when it comes down to failures that makes them look weak....

All I'm saying is, it does not matter if they are strong now or strong then.. They failed a mission. As a super secret spy that usually means death.

[briansolomonauthor]

The Legacy of Buffalo & Pittsburgh 207

Here’s another example of tying the threads together. A few days ago, Wayne Duffett sent me a photo of a bridge on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh that he’d inspected some years back. In his story about the bridge (that was involved in a fire) he made mention of B&P GP9 number 207 that later was sold to the Finger Lakes Railroad, becoming its 1751. About a dozen years ago, Conway Scenic traded a pair…

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Layout Update | New Locomotive Ops

[eltristan]

That PRR GP9B!

Western Pennsylvania coal train bound for Edison's River Rouge power plant near Detroit, Michigan, led by PRR GP9 7253, PRR GP9B 3818 and Detroit, Toledo & Ironton GP9 990 rolling through Oroville, Ohio on November 11, 1967. Photo by W.D.Volkner

[graintrainbrain]

Wrecked CNR steam locomotive No. 5115 sits nose-to-nose with NAR 202 after a head-on collision near Carbondale, Alberta, that led to a tank car explosion, the destruction of the nearby train station, four deaths, and nineteen injuries, 1959. Photo from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, via the Carbondale Railway Station

[catenary-chad]

I can be laughably inconsistant in how I portray Electra’s build besides “somewhat to very short and denser than you’d expect”. On one hand, it makes sense for an electric train to be very lean because they notably don’t “store” anything fuel-wise irl (unless they have a battery or are a dual-mode electo-diesel). On the other hand, it’s a running joke that Americanized versions of European engines have to be waaaay heavier than the originals for crashworthiness reasons (other countries just have better signaling/fewer road crossings to begin with) so modern-day Electra being heftier checks out. Also not immune to making stupid jokes about how electric locos often have issues with being too light irl and making them heavier can be a GREAT thing for freight service since it reduces wheelslip and lets them pull more.

[untoterxhund]

rain? usually cold and wet. rain after weeks of natural (an one unnatural forest-fire because of one whack-job in Nova Scotia) forest-fires? y u m. anyhoo, how're y'all today?

[eltristan]

3194 did end up with the GGRM at Brightside, California. Not sure about current status.

SP 3194 (GP9) in Brisbane, CA at the east end Bayshore Yard in March 1981 by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: A Roger Puta Photograph

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Minuteman Diesels: The GP9s

[aryburn-trains]

B&O GP9 6604 and Port Authority Transit RDC (Monongahela Valley Commuter Trains), Pittsburgh, PA on October 18, 1978

[guerrerense]

Two Classics in Retirement por Don Kalkman Por Flickr: The only surviving Western Maryland F7A sits out her golden years in the company of a B&O GP9 at the Beeno Mewzam, hon.

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iconic NWP railfan location...

goin for a swim brb

blub,, glub,bg,,

[sharknoseshenanigans1951]

I love my Proto 2000 gp9, one of the best models I own