Hello, I'm Spencer. A typical railfan from good ole NW Ohio.
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as of 8-27-16: Panasonic LUMIX G7
as of 4/12/14 I use a Canon Vixia HF R300 for video. any videos taken before that date are a combination of my 4th gen. Ipod and a cheep vivtar POS.
Railfanning: On this channel you can find railfanning from various places in NW Ohio mostly of the Norfolk Southern. The CSX is the other railroad in the region but isn't focused on in this channel, however CSX can be found, it just isn't as common as the NS.
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Man, 13 years I lived beside tracks NS owned, never had this chance! Closest I got was one of the engineers talking to me when he had to stop due to debris someone put on the rail. Miss that engineer though, he always honked as he went by after that.
I’ve done that many times when I worked at CSX Transportation in Miami, Florida. I’ve started a handful of different locomotives. The ones that where interesting to me where the EMD SD70M-2s that they leased from Progress Rail that where former FEC engines. The crews down in Miami couldn’t locate the “Knife Switch” and since I was the subject matter expert, they asked me for help. I found it for them in the auxiliary cab outside of the engine behind the engineers door. You have to open the door and go inside. In there is the knife switch and all the breakers but a few.
the sd-70-mac's u missed one. we moved more coal with the sd-60's, sd-70's and the MAC's with the 710 than during the 90's, 2000's, than ANYTHING else.
On the SP Siskiyou Branch and Over Donner Pass. We had SD 9's the 6 axle engines then the SD 40's , For Donner pass the SD 45T-2 the tunnel motors. There are still a lot of SD9's working out west. The tunnel motors with the lower air inlet to the radiators to help them stay cool in the tunnels and snow sheds on Donner. My favorites are the SD 9's, SD 40-2's and SD tunnel motors. The GE D9's and SD 75I.
My favorite selection of trains is unusual. By far my favorite engine is the FM H-24-66. Trainmasters we’re notoriously unreliable and terrible to maintain. But being one of the highest hp engines of its time not built by the big 3 locomotive manufacturers, and had looks to kill for. It was a beautiful engine. It wasn’t an EL-2B or a GG1, but it was a diesel, and by far my favorite Diesel engine, no matter how terrible the engine genuinely was. If only any Wabash trainmasters were preserved.
