Used and Abused (Rail)

This Santa Fe Warbonnet has seen better days.

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Woolburr wrote in post #16789555
Clicking image takes you to bigger and better version on black....it makes a difference.

It sure does! I'd hang it on my wall.

Sold one this morning!

Good for you! That was fast.

Well... I can tell you how that happened. That particular unit was in a consist, second or third engine back, when a locomotive in front of it had a turbo let go. When that happens out on the road and the consist is in a hard pull situation where the throttle cannot be reduced, about 500 gallons of hot oil gets pumped out the blown turbo. Goes right out the stack and up in the exhaust, then it rains down on everything from there back. Since it's very hot (scalding usually) it acts as a penetrate on the oil based paint and - the stains will be there like you see them until that unit is repainted.

Nice shot of it. The other shot to have gotten would have been one of the unit that suffered the turbo explosion! They usually are coated in a dark black very sticky oil coating. It's sometimes so thick you can scrape it off the sides of the locomotive like frosting off a cake. Oh, and it is very sticky too! LOL!! Been there done that!

Hillbille

Turbo failure was the general speculation of those of us shooting last night. Throw in a couple of leaky batteries and you have the whole package.

Great capture and nice input on the cause. It still fascinates me that we can see SF on the East Coast so much. Never happened when I was younger.

You never saw foreign power when I was a kid....it was a big treat to see a boxcar from something other than the local line.

Nice shot!

Thanks!