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It looks like a Blomberg truck, to me. Blombergs were the usual four wheel truck for EMD road engines. Def Blomberg. Here are 3 photos of a unit prior to arrival in Hou. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=534690&nseq=15" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://w...

Interesting. I have some interest in Gabon, formerly a French colony. The locos were hauled around Texas. Were they on flatcars? They're not standard gauge, are they? What does the word "sustainable" mean in this context? "Société d’Exploitation" sounds somewhat amusing in Engli...

Article about SD70ACe-T4 including video.

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Thanks for the links , pjw1967. I wonder if they will be used for shunting duties , or perhaps local services. Hi, David. Article says switching which as you know is US parlance for shunting. Noticed you hail from NZ. in the early '80's I was working for the Dutch heavylift carrier, Jumbo. Around t...

I would imagine they arrived in Houston on their own wheels. I'll ask. Meantime here are 2 board threads about Gabon. One has the new EMD unit being dropped a while back, and the other is a video I took myself of loading 3 rebuilt SD40's at our Houston terminal in 2011. http://www.railroad.net/forum...

My former employer is doing the ocean transport. Railserve’s U.S.–Built Green Locomotives Headed to Africa HOUSTON, Texas—Oct. 7, 2015—(James Street Media Services)—A shipment of sustainable locomotives built in the United States by Railserve set sail last weekend on a 6,000-mile ocean voyage to Afr...

Cummins Inc. announced Oct. 2, 2015 that the first production 95-liter, 16-cylinder QSK95 engine built to a rail specification has been shipped. The engine, rated at 4,400 hp (3,281 kW) will be delivered to the Siemens manufacturing facility in Sacramento, Calif., where it will be installed into a C...

I guess this might count as an export model built under license with the 567 prime mover.

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The company from which I retired has a long history of carrying rail equipment by ship. We did most of the shells for the NYC R160 program built by Alstom in Brazil. To brag a little, I personally have been involved in the booking of the first Class 59 EMD's that went to the UK and the King of Moro...

The company from which I retired has a long history of carrying rail equipment by ship. We did most of the shells for the NYC R160 program built by Alstom in Brazil. To brag a little, I personally have been involved in the booking of the first Class 59 EMD's that went to the UK and the King of Moroc...

We carried the first Hyundai Rotem crumple zone car shells from Korea to Long Beach in March 2010. Here are 2 videos of the discharge. The first I shot from the ship's bridge, and the second from down on the pier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlJI7H8Sg_4" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

I took this video a few years ago. About 12 minutes long. A sure cure for insomnia. Nothing bad happens.

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Hi from Texas. I spent 8 years commuting from Bloomfield to Hoboken in the old rattan seat MU's, occasionally supplemented with a U34CH. In Sept. 2004 we carried new PL42's from Sagunto, Spain to Albany. Here is a link to some photos. http://s1355.photobucket.com/user/pjw1967/library/PL42AC" on...

Thanks to a long time friend who retired from GE, here are the photos that were taken of "Captain Nemo" being fished out of the water. Thankfully no one was injured in all of this. http://s1355.photobucket.com/user/pjw1967/library/China%20locos%20Capt%20Nemo" onclick="window.open...

This is anecdotal so I will understand if gets deleted in such a technical discussion. I visited Ireland with my family in 1963. Due to a storm in Galway preventing the tender reaching our ship, CIE put together a special train to take us to Cobh. How they threw together a train for 150 passengers s...