2002 was running yesterday. The snow had been cleaned off the walkways and some of the hood doors were open. There had also been vehicle traffic in the snow next to the engine and a barrel pump was propped up on the walkway by the open hood doors. Wonder if they filled the cooling system with 55 gallon drums. 2001 was shut down.
Dick H wrote:#690: Interesting photo with that "threatening" sky. Were the locos running?
If they are dead and drained, they will have to get a pool company's tank truck
to fill them up and it's supposed to be only 20 degrees today and 3 degrees tonight.
MEC407 wrote:Wow, 690... absolutely fantastic shot with the star trails! Nicely done!Thanks! Both were shut down when I took the picture (12/31), and both were drained (friend told me that they were working on the units the next day, adding water, etc). The Maine Eastern equipment was also shut down, sitting at the interchange with Pan Am. Interestingly, they wyed the engines, with the 3573 now facing west, and 764 facing east.
If I'm not mistaken, MMA fitted some (or maybe all?) of the B23s with auxiliary power units. They did that with some or all of their B39s too. Of course, one wonders whether MMA actually maintained the APUs toward the end, given the company's shall-we-say "unconventional" maintenance practices during their final couple of years...