It is still my belief that someday this will be the corporate image of the company that owns F Tower. Purely speculatively, certain recent activity suggests it might even be soon. But enough with the rumors.....for this day, Q-351-07 (Selkirk, NY - North Platte, NE/UP freight) was busy heading west on this sunny but "cool" Thursday afternoon with UP SD70M # 4480 in the lead. Trailing the 4480 were UP C40-8 #'s 9301 (ightning stripe) and 9172 (lightning stripe and yellow frame stripe, and by appearances very recently repainted).
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March 5th, 2008:
Spring may be on the way soon, but it was certainly not here yet on this winter morning of storm recovery, full of snow, ice, and grey skies.
Through the scene next to old B&O depot in Fostoria blasts BNSF SD70MAC # 9618, looking rather ghostly with its "BN" logo no longer on the nose. She is leading CSXT train U-994-04 (Cicero, IL/BNSF - Colona, PA Powder River coal loads) eastbound on B&O main # 2, along with BNSF SD70MAC # 9404, also in the "executive" colors. Both units also have fairly newly applied "swoosh" patches on the sides of the cabs, not visible here.
The winter weather delayed many trains on this day, but didn't keep the Fostoria Rails from being just as busy as ever.
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It is still my belief that someday this will be the corporate image of the company that owns F Tower. Purely speculatively, certain recent activity suggests it might even be soon. But enough with the rumors.....for this day, Q-351-07 (Selkirk, NY - North Platte, NE/UP freight) was busy heading west on this sunny but "cool" Thursday afternoon with UP SD70M # 4480 in the lead. Trailing the 4480 were UP C40-8 #'s 9301 (ightning stripe) and 9172 (lightning stripe and yellow frame stripe, and by appearances very recently repainted).
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