Stuart posted:Lou1985 posted:bob2 posted:If it helps, in 1949 the Daylight Northerns clanked through my back yard with heavyweights, Daylight cars, Golden State cars, and Golden Rocket cars. On at least one occasion two fully shrouded Daylights were coupled together.
I cannot remember any freights pulled with shrouded Daylights, but I bet we can find a photo or videoof that fairly easily.
I guess we take this stuff seriously - but I have run SP locomotives with PRR cabin cars, and own a B&O PA. Seems to me we can do what we want. Very few real railroads operated on 3-rail track.
I'm actually looking for photos of black, unshrouded GS class locomotives pulling freight trains. They seem to be few and far between. I mostly have seen photos of them on commute trains. I'd like to find more photos like the above one. The few I have seen are the GS class locomotives pulling refrigerator cars or Overnight Express boxcars. I'm curious if unshrouded black GS class locomotives pulled any other kind of freight trains.
I know I can do whatever I want. I just try and be prototypical where I can. It makes me happy. But so does running my Santa Fe Texas at the head of a streamlined Chief consist on occasion
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What about Rusty's photo just above of the 4448 with the side skirting removed, painted black with the silver pilot and smokebox front?
If you mean completely destreamlined, SP never did that. The only GS series locomotives without the skyline casing, skirts, and smooth pilot were the class GS-1, GS-7, and GS-8, which never had those features. The GS-6 had the skyline casing and smooth pilot, but never had the side skirting.
Stuart
I'd like to see if there are more photos of deskirted, black GS2/3/4/5/6s pulling freight trains besides the one posted above, which I've seen before. The couple I've see have had GS locomotives on refrigerator trains or overnight boxcar trains. I'd like to see what else they would have commonly pulled in freight service.
I know the SP never removed the skyline casting or smooth pilots from the GS2/3/4/5/6 locomotives, just the side skirts. The removal of the side skirts "destreamlines" the locomotive to me.
