Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

:woohoo:
 

Erie Lackawanna SD45s by *classictrains:iconclassictrains:

Categories Photography > Transportation

Creative Commons License
Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
:iconclassictrains:

Artist's Comments

Someone asked me for pictures of EL SD45's a while back. Here are a couple late in the evening after a long day if chasing trains on the Monon around Hammond in 1968.

Curiously enough I found several other photos on the web of these two sequentially numbered units (3617 & 3618) together.

Comments


love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconjimzim66:
=jimzim66 Jul 20, 2007, 7:02:46 PM
The sexiest trains to ever roam the rails.

--
'The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?'
:iconsullivan1985:
=sullivan1985 Jul 20, 2007, 10:41:31 PM
Ahh, there ya go. Now those are some real locomotives. A nice clean set of Erie Lackawanna SD45's. Most bad-ass SD's to ever roll on North American rails.

Norfolk Southern still has a few of the original EL SD45's and they run local trains all over North and Central Jersey.

--
-Sully

Photography pho · tog · ra · phy - (n): The art of trial & error.
:iconjdawg9806:
~jdawg9806 Jul 21, 2007, 4:55:16 AM
wow there's a scene never to be seen again. that's a bike path and some condominiums now.

--
Well I sit and I pray
In my broken down Chevrolet
While I'm singin' to myself
There's got to be another way
:iconsullivan1985:
=sullivan1985 Feb 10, 2009, 10:07:12 AM
I look at this picture now and these must have been brand new units. Once these monsters got to the EL, the location of the horns where changed to above the EN cab and the style of the number boards changed.

--
-Sully

Photography pho · tog · ra · phy - (n): The art of trial & error.
:iconclassictrains:
*classictrains Feb 14, 2009, 7:46:10 PM
They were in service when I snapped them and they were far from clean. (I probably should go back and rescan these.) It would be interesting to find out what the build date was.

--
I dunno... whada you think?
:iconsilverwolf-1ofmany:
~Silverwolf-1ofmany Mar 1, 2009, 11:05:48 PM
Wow, I always thought that the SD45 was a sexy locomotive, for lack of a better term. ;) Gotta LOVE those flared radiators. You don't have any pics of the original GN 'Hustle Muscle' units, do you? :?

--
I miss you so much, Lakota. 4/28/93-11/7/08
~mariokartclub Join Today and receive a free Circuit Guide!:D
I am dA's resident Megaphone Ninja! :megaphone::ninja:
:iconclassictrains:
*classictrains Mar 2, 2009, 10:31:21 AM
You really should check my Journal...

I may have something in one of the boxes that I haven't gotten to yet but if I do have one it wasn't as a lead unit. The original Hustle Muscle was a label applied to the much despised simplified orange and black scheme.

As close as I have posted so far is a Big Sky Blue SDP-45 at [link] That is my second favorite paint-scheme. Santa Fe Warbonnet is #1.

--
I dunno... whada you think?
:iconsilverwolf-1ofmany:
~Silverwolf-1ofmany Mar 2, 2009, 11:08:15 AM
Oh, I like those colors. ;) Gotta go to a dentist's appointment, Mom is pestering me to no end:XD:

--
I miss you so much, Lakota. 4/28/93-11/7/08
~mariokartclub Join Today and receive a free Circuit Guide!:D
I am dA's resident Megaphone Ninja! :megaphone::ninja:
Previous Page12Next Page

Details

July 20, 2007
2.0 MB
137 KB
1024×799

Statistics

12
24 [who?]
238 (0 today)
3 (0 today)

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map

©2009 deviantART. All rights reserved
About Us | Contact Us | Site Tour | Help & FAQ Advertise | Services Etiquette | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Copyright Policy