Portent of things to come – General Electric B40-8 demonstrator 808 greets a new day in front of the NYS&W enginehouse in Binghamton, New York. The demonstration was a success, prompting the Susquehanna to purchase four of the GE’s, its first brand-new power in 26 years. Another year later, twenty more B40-8’s would arrive, financed by CSX to handle stack trains. While on the NYS&W property, the 808 operated on mainline trains, but on this day, it ran solo in local service on the Northern Division.
Looking back down memory lane at the last generation of GE spartan cab which includes the six axles C series and four axles B series throughout the various of Class 1 Railroads in North America throughout the years.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
Not
just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
