This is one unique train photo!
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Gruesome....the severed heads of for Amtrak F40's on display.
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Posted by on January 8, 2015 | |
This is pretty wild. Well, not so pretty for the F40s...
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say take the number boards! Great Pic Derek!
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I want to say something here, but I'm at a loss for words!
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A sad ending for the former work horses of Amtrak. They are missed.
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Reminds me of Cadillac Ranch, the line of half-buried cars in Texas.
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Sad!! This must mean I'm getting old.
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I mean, I want to favorite this one, but...
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Posted by cnw4007 on January 8, 2015 | |
Are they selling the strobes? Maybe that will make me visible in traffic nowadays.
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The one in the foreground has ditch lights installed, but not the others. Did Amtrak have an alternative for the others, or did they have an exemption to that requirement?
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Corpses pointing to the Great Beyond.
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Derek, Thanks for sharing this photo from "Larry Land". It may only be Amtrak but it saddens me none-the-less. It would be neat to get one of the builder plates.
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Three of those may have been dead long before the end of the F40's on Amtrak, no ditch-lights!
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Always sad to see the end of legends....
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Is Larry's just giant "You Pull It' for railroads? Me thinks there could be many an hour spent just grabbing trinkets!!
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Janusz, I was going to call this "AMTRAK ranch".
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On the very right edge of the photo I see a Phase II F40. I wonder if a museum might be willing to buy it and restore it to look brand new.
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On numerous occasions I have visited auto salvage/wrecking yards. Seldom do you see windshield wiper arms and headlights. These are usually pulled very soon after the vehicle arrives. Seems to me that the couplers would still have immediate salvage value. Evidently the value of scrap iron isn't high enough to support the labor to recycle it.
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