Feb 2014 Contest "SD40's in the lead"

[Forum Admin]

After our normal January break, we are happy to announce the subject of the February 2014 contest.

"SD40-2's" in the lead.  You may enter your TWO best images of NS, SR, N&W or predecessor roads EMD SD40-2 leaders. New or old, rebuilt or in not, lets see what you have.  Standard contest rules apply and entries will be taken until the 15th of the month.  

[K8DTI]

NS 176 at McKinney, Kentucky on December 27, 1997.

NS 6131 eastbound at Prichard, West Virginia on March 4, 1995.  The coal dock remains but the signal on the right is now gone.

[TylerHardin33]

SD40-2 Rebuild leading north off of High Bridge. Highbridge Kentucky. November 30th 2013

[Gage O'Dell]

NS 6118 leads NS 275 over the Roller Coaster in Gradison


A rebuilt SD40-2 leads NS 289 around South Wye

[Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR]

Here's a camp car train rounding Waddy curve in the cold ky rain.

[Kentucky & Indiana Terminal RR]

Herzog ballast train sitting at the new crew swap location in burnside, vintage 1625 leading after her facelift.

[RailfanTerry]

6/26/1996 NS local T74 heads to Sheffield, AL with SD40-2 #3327 leading LHF


1/27/2014 NS #3349 leads local A83 to Corinth, MISS


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[Matt L]

Entry #1 is from the last day I saw a former Conrail SD40-2 in dress blue. As I recall, #3360 was repainted the following spring.



Photo taken by me Friday 9/20/2011 in Buffalo, NY.

[Matt L]

Entry #2- speaking of the following spring, NS SD40-2s #3410 and 3395 provided the power for local H06 on the Corning Secondary:



Photo taken by me Sunday 6/10/2012 in Corning, NY. They are former Conrail units on former CR iron.

[Batman]

NS 117 at Black Creek Cut ,  Mountainview , Tn.

NS 161 at Chattanooga with a NS, DRGW, SR combo.

[Bill Richardson]

NS-3439, followed by NS-5127, just after they came out of Kings Mountain Cut, heading north. September 2013.

[srman]

1. Southern SD40-2 3259 slowly leads southbound 229 by SJ near Danville Ky. September 12,1987
2. It's the first day of summer 1986 as Southern SD40-2 3305 leads an eastbound at Clark Station Ky.

[Bill Richardson]

I'm going to add one more photo.  I'm not sure if this will qualify, since the SD40-2 isn't leading a train, but it is in front of another locomotive.  I like the picture.  Photo made at the Danville, KY yard January 2014.

[callduckfarm]

N&W 6081 leads a grain train of open top hoppers on the Southern Tier on 4/30/1978.

[callduckfarm]

CR 6401 leads a UFS coal train on the Port Perry branch on a foggy 10/15/1997.

[Southern6482]

These might not win - but I have to honor my late friend John Farris by submitting two of his images.  I have been in the process over the last year "digitizing" his collection and he has two really nice images from the late 1980's.

The first is SD40-2 6125 leading a hot pig train in the snow at Rogers Gap, KY.  Little has changed with this scene since John took it around 1989.

6125sd402rogersgap by chadaharpole, on Flickr

Second, is SD40-2 3273 doing what it did best - running "Southern Style" around the curve at Georgetown, KY.  This shot is impossible now with the growth of trees and of course, the Southern GRS signals being removed.


3282sd402gtown by chadaharpole, on Flickr

[Forum Admin]

As a reminder, you only have 2 more days to get your entries in.  Saturday 02/15/14 at 10pm Est.   

[K4SOU]

NS 3340 makes its way around Horseshoe Curve with a set of helpers on 5/6/2006.

NS 3323 leads a short cut of cars past The RAIL in Fostoria, OH on 8/29/13.

[legostudios34]

Here are my entries for the month.



The new NS 3554 leads NS G88 intermodal transfer to Whitaker Intermodal yard in Austell, GA. Taken with my Fujifilm S4250 zoomed all the way in to 576 mm. It had a really nice Helm leasing 'Redbird" paint job, but sadly the NS patches were spray painted on and looked awful. January 18, 2014



NS 3464 leads NS G39 through Rome, GA. April 1, 2013. (Sorry for using a RP.net embed, but I couldnt find this one in my Flickr stream, and scroll over or look at the attachment to see the full thing)

[Forum Admin]

Thanks to everyone who entered this month!  The poll will go up and voting will start this evening. 

[Forum Admin]

The poll is open and will remain open for 5 days.  Please vote for your favorite 2 images.

[Forum Admin]

Just a reminder, voting closes in about 48 hours, 7pm est Saturday evening, so be sure to get your votes in before then!

[Forum Admin]

Congratulations to Gage Odell for his winning shot "NS 6118 at Gradison, KY"!   

Thanks to everyone that participated, and the topic of the next contest will announced on March 1st.