WOW great pictures everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Lets hope 2021 is better than 2020 (won't be too hard - LOL) Wife and I have transitioned to the east coast, Georgia, to visit family for the month of January - big risk travel with COVID but we decided to take it. Impact to me is that I am now posting some "archive" photos that I took before we left home in Texas.
This Friday, I noticed quite a mixture. SLQ32 the ornaments look great, I have not seen them photographed like that before, good job! So my post today is in celebration of another "fallen flag" the Rock Island taken from a time when it was healthy and strong. It is the Marx E7 interpretation of Rock Island livery. The ABA units date from as early as '58. The A units were available quite late, till '74 but the B unit stopped production in '61.
Here they are in classic F.E.F pose. Getting ready to leave the depot in downtown Savannah (on my fictional RR) don't have any idea what the RI would be doing in eastern Georgia but hey its all in fun!
Here is side view showing the full length of the ABA units. Like Lionel, only the first A unit is powered the other A and the B are dummies.
Of course its hard to tell front from back, but here is the rear unit just as its pulling past the depot.
Just want to wish everyone the very best for the new year
Don
