Working rail roads and their tracks.

[MossRoad]

What's a RR slug?

No engine. Just traction motors and weight. Has to be paired with a locomotive. Gets its electric supply from the paired loco.

Slug (railroad) - Wikipedia

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[MossRoad]

There's a good view of one at about 4:47 in the video...

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[BravoXray]

There's a good view of one at about 4:47 in the video...

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I've seen them working that slug quite often when I go by the yard.

 

[Hay Dude]

I just looked up the link to “slug” and scrolled dow a bit to see this picture

That rail yard is about 15 miles from me near Crozer/Chester Hospital and Weidner University.

 

[California]

Thanks everybody. Never heard of a Slug before this.

That makes sense. Horsepower is needed top-end for speed, but added torque and traction are what's needed to get a heavy train started moving, ie this switchyard application.

 

[MossRoad]

Got to watch the whole thing...

There's at least 3 of them in the video.


868


858 & 859


I remember when it was a Conrail yard. There were many more of them back then.

 

[bcp]

Big Boy No. 4014’s Schedule | Union Pacific

Union Pacific connects 23 western U.S. states, providing safe and efficient railroad transportation, freight shipping and logistics.

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Route:

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Bruce

 

[ArlyA]

This is a rail and sail combo I never expected to get after Elevator A along Duluth's MN waterfront was shuttered after the 2013 shipping season. Hansen-Mueller reopened it last year and today they welcomed the first vessel to load there (Maxima loading beet pulp pellets). In the foreground are Riverland AG's ex-Cargill SW1 and their GE centercab. They also use a red former MKT SW1200. Duluth, MN - June 5, 2023. Years ago, I worked on a similar engine seen on the right. This was also posted in the great lake shipping thread.

 

[MossRoad]

There's a little switcher located at a farm service supply center/grain elevator about 8 miles west of me that looks similar. It's usually parked in an area that I can't get close enough to take photos. It's similar to that but I think the cab is not exactly in the center.

There's also an engine that's been sitting on a siding at a grain elevator in La Paz, IN about 16 miles south of me for at least 20 years. I think Conagra owns it. Google street views shows it sitting with the doors open. Used to be a train station at that location. I went with my folks to pick up my cousin there back in the 60s.

 

[bcp]

There's a little switcher located at a farm service supply center/grain elevator about 8 miles west of me that looks similar. It's usually parked in an area that I can't get close enough to take photos. It's similar to that but I think the cab is not exactly in the center.

Maybe this for the centercab?

GAVILON 1

GAVILON 1 Gavilon Grain uses this un-numbered GE 65-tonner at their facility near Plainfield, IN. She was originally USAX 1665.

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There's also an engine that's been sitting on a siding at a grain elevator in La Paz, IN about 16 miles south of me for at least 20 years. I think Conagra owns it.

And the one in La Paz, maybe.

Pictures of CRGX 6990

Pictures of CRGX 6990, Model: SD40-2

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Bruce