#fl9

[railwayhistorical]

Changing Power at Poughkeepsie While headed to NYC on the Lake Shore Limited, the train stopped at Poughkeepsie, New York, to change power; the rail line here was formerly the New York Central. Unfortunately, I don’t know what was on point of the train from Rochester (where I got on) to this spot, but from here on in to Grand Central Terminal, it would be an EMD FL9. This locomotive, truly a unique model, was designed for use on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, specifically with GCT in mind. The locomotive could run as a normal diesel-electric does, but also use the electricity of a third-rail (either over or under the shoe) so as to not spew exhaust in the tunnels under Park Avenue as well as in the station itself. There were sixty of these produced; they remarkable for their B-A1A wheel configuration. After the New Haven was folded into the Penn Central, the use of this engine type expanded to the Hudson Valley line, as we see here. Besides what was happening with my train, there is a Rail Diesel Car in the station; RDCs were built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia between 1949 and 1962. I believe these interesting self-propelled units were used for local service on the various Conrail commuter lines north of NYC; Metro North would take over these lines in 1983. Three images by Richard Koenig; taken in May of 1981.

#metronorthrailroad #metronorth #amtrak #poughkeepsienewyork #poughkeepsieny #poughkeepsie #lakeshorelimited #filmphotography #grainisgood #rdc #fl9 #hudsonvalley #hudsonriverline #newyorkcentral

[briansolomonauthor]

Five Angles on an FL9

Five Angles on an FL9

Over the years, I’ve photographed hundreds of locomotives, on scores of railways, in dozens of countries. Occasionally I’ve opted for the classic ‘three-quarter’ roster angle. More often I’ve opted for various more dramatic, interpretive, or dynamic views. A long time ago I learned that when I find some equipment resting in a accessible location, to photograph it from a great variety of…

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#FL9 #New Haven Railroad #Massachusetts

[collinthenychudson]

Powering the Northbound Merchants Limited, A pair of EMD FL9s race through the countryside thundering across a steel bridge that stretches over a road.

Models and Route by: Pweiser, Auran, and Download Station

#New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad #New Haven #New Haven Railroad #NH #FL9 #EMD FL9 #Diesel Locomotives #Trains #Trainz Simulator

[roboraindrop]

I am so full of love,,,,,

#rain rambles #so full of love that it turns to liquid and pours from my eyes when I think about my fl9 #f/os**

[apoorconductor]

TTTT 7: A pair of legends in the diesel-electric world! B&O's EMD EA/EB #51, the first streamlined diesel engine in history; and NH's FL9 #2059, the last in a line of over 7,600 units in the EMD F family. The latter of these engines never received its own B variant, but in order to let it run through the underground tunnels to NY Grand Central, it was fitted with electrical equipment, third-rail contact shoes, and an extra rear axle to carry them!

#minecraft trains #emd e unit #b&o ea 51 #emd f unit #nh fl9 #diesel engine #mc shaders #mc builds

[gundamcalibarney]

RL Train design for FL9 2019 please?

Here she is! Unfortunately due to lack of info i can get for her besides the fact that she’s a part of the Railroad Museum of New England i don’t have much to say about her.

[Art Requests are Closed! 1/5]

#answer #art request #core’s art #locomotion #RMNE FL9 2019 #Re:T0LD

[toast-com]

For the request thing, FL9 2019? Thank youu

Quite the Sight

"You look different." FL9 2019 blinked, surprised.

"I do?" Marie, his driver grinned.

"Yeah! Did you get repainted or polished?" The diesel smiled.

"Manager gave me a polish after I entered the shed last night..."

"That's what it is! That polish has you looking quite the sight!"

#toasty's writing #toasty's asks #real trains #i gave real trains personality #fl9 2019 #drabble #a lil something #:3

[aryburn-trains]

Amtrak FL9's were assigned to Albany for use between Albany and New York City for third rail operations into Grand Central. Every now and then one would make a run west of Albany to Niagara Falls. Here the 485 makes a return run on the Niagara Rainbow, the morning EB train out of Niagara Falls, rolling thru Central NY farm fields as it approaches the Oakland Road overpass in North Weedsport. August 1994

#niagara rainbow #amtk #amtrak #1994 #new york city #toronto #trains #passenger train #history #weedsport #new york

[fuzzkaizer]

Ibanez - collection

"Ibanez guitar pedal collection from the early 1980's.

CS9 - Stereo Chorus PT9 - Phaser AD9 - Analog Delay GE9 - Graphic EQ ST9 - Super Tube Screamer SD9 - Sonic Distortion CP9 - Compressor / Limiter FL9 - Flanger TS9 - Tube Scremer TS10 - Tube Screamer PT-909 - Phase Tone AD-80 - Analog Delay PQ-401 - Parametric EQ OD-855 - Overdrive CP-835 - Compressor FL-301 - Flanger SD-1 - Super Overdrive UE-305 - Multi Effects"

cred: reverb.com/6 Strings Heaven

#ibanez #collection #family

[monstroso]

I keep forgetting this one detail because it was a crazy day, but I saw Silver Pilot run at the North Carolina Transportation Museum when they had the big streamliners event. It was running with a new haven fl9. They looked beautiful in the sun, and I can picture Pilot especially clear as day, but unfortunately I wasn't taking photos at the time. It was such a nice surprise because I didn't know the Q had silvered up an e unit, much less that one could run in 2014!

I know you told me this because you're excited and I am also excited for you but I *do* want you to know that, with all the love in my heart, I am seething with jealousy (affectionate).

As soon as I found out about the Spencer event and started looking stuff up, I knew I'd missed out on something really special. Oh well, at least we have the photos! That's really awesome that you were able to go, that's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of event. The New Haven and the Spencer museum's own ACL E3 are definitely the highlights for me, I love how they took every opportunity to pose the E-units together. The purple and silver set each other off beautifully, and they're the only slantnoses there.

If you have any stories or cool memories from the event, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to hear more about it! This is the kind of thing attended mostly by old guys who aren't on tumblr, and so their accounts and memories of the event get locked behind forums or posted on webpages that google doesn't turn up very easily. Either way, super cool that you were able to go, thank you for sharing!

#asks #galushanationalrailways #ray plays trains #i hope publishing this was okay? if not feel free to msg me i can delete it

[guerrerense]

The Diesel That Did It por David Blazejewski Por Flickr: In 2014 the North Carolina Transportation Museum held their biggest party ever and in my humble opinion the single greatest railfan event I've ever attended before or since. Following up on their wildly successful heritage unit family portrait event for Norfolk Southern's 30th anniversary they planned something even bigger. Gathering 26 surviving freight and passenger diesels from the classic first generation era, they all came together for three days of festivities centered around the old Southern Railway turntable such as this shot I already shared: flic.kr/p/2nD4WQL In addition there were rides and locomotive parades and a seemingly infinite number of photo set ups both day and night. Seeing this locomotive in person was a highlight for sure, because while it may not be the most famous or popular it is arguably the most historically significant. Why? Because this was 'The Diesel That Did It' as proclaimed by the legendary David P. Morgan. GM 103 is an FT blt. by EMC in Mar. 1939 as part of an A-B-B-A demonstrator set. It was this model that was the first true freight road locomotive produced by EMD, and the success of this demonstrator would lead to sales of over 1000 FTs and some nearly 8000 total 'F units' over 21 years until the final FL9 rolled off the assembly room floor in LaGrange. This unit came to the event from its home at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. It was joined by an FT B-unit that is painted to match in the EMD demonstrator scheme. The B came from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke and it is not an original member of the 103 set but rather was built in 1944 for the Southern Railway and survived later in life heavily modified as a steam generator car. If you want to learn more about this railfan event of the century in case you weren't there this gentleman has a fabulous overview on his site: www.wvncrails.org/streamliners-at-spencer.html Spencer, North Carolina Friday May 30, 2014

#flickr

[railwayhistorical]

Through the Hudson Highlands Here we see a New York City-bound train powering through a short tunnel and then rolling into the tiny village of Garrison, New York. The burg is located on the Hudson River directly across from West Point, in the Hudson Highlands. The two locomotives, EMD FL9s, that are powering the train—pushing, in this case—are unique, built specifically for operation in the Park Avenue Tunnel and bowels of Grand Central Station. This line is formerly the New York Central, which was four tracks wide for much of this stretch down to The City. Three images by Richard Koenig; taken in the fall of 1988.

#metronorthrailroad #metronorth #garrisonnewyork #garrisonny #hudsonlinemetronorth #hudsonline #hudsonvalley #hudsonriver #fl9 #filmphotography #grainisgood #newyorkcentral

[fraiserabbit]

If I'm not too late,, how about FL9 2019? I'll let you pick which outfit 👀

#from the Box #✍🐇

[dilf-barbecue-sauce]

If anyone at the mcr okc show needs earplugs I am sitting in section FL9 <3

#mcr okc #mcrokc #mcr paycom #mcr #my chemocal romance

[theflyingkipper]

Alright "show kips a loco" tiem lesss go 🤓

FL9 2019 (plus bonus pictures I recently found of when he was still numbered as 2049)

THE H O N K

I really appreciate this livery, its so fast and streamlined while also keeping some charm(?) modern rail livery is so restricted to blue, black and silver, its nice to see something striking like this with unique geometric patterns

#real life railway #asks

[zponds]

Yesterday, I made a post going over the backstory and info on the three new additional steam engines to my TTTE OC roster of engines from New York Central. Now this post will go over the backstory of the three S Motor electric locomotives:

Sparky - S Motor #100

Skyler - S Motor #110

Sarah - S Motor #106

And the backstory of these three electric locomotives is just below.

On January 8th, 1902, a disastrous collision between an express train and a commuter train took place in Park Avenue Tunnel, which resulted in steam being banned from New York City’s city limits. With news of that, New York Central constructed Grand Central Terminal and electrified railroad lines into New York City such as the new terminal underground tracks. With steam banned in New York City’s city limits, the New York Central needed electric locomotives to bring trains in and out of the city, so ALCO and General Electric delivered the electric locomotives: the S Motors.

Sparky was the first of the class to be delivered, he was originally numbered as Class L #6000. After test trails in 1904-1906, Sparky and 34 other S Motors were delivered to New York Central and they began service in 1907, and Skyler and Sarah were among those 34 additional units. By 1908, 13 more S Motors were delivered. By 1913, the T Motors were introduced, and therefore, Sparky, Skyler, Sarah, and their siblings were sent to only commuter and switching duties, but they didn’t mind. In the 1930s, the S Motors were renumbered, with Sparky being renumbered #100, Skyler renumbered to #110, and Sarah being renumbered to #106. By the 1950s, however, diesels were starting to replace steam engines in New York Central’s roster, and this was when Sparky, Skyler and Sarah met Grey, Jason, Peter, Derek, Bruce and Lenny. Sparky, Skyler and Sarah saw that these six diesels actually had concern and remorse for the steam engines, and the 6 diesels told the three S Motors that they sent Mohawk, Niagara, Hudson, Steele, Mark, and Mercury into hiding. After that, the six diesels and three S Motors kept this a secret and prayed and hoped that the six steam engines wouldn’t found and scrapped.

The three and their siblings continued to serve the New York Central and even served the later Penn Central… and when Penn Central was formed, Sparky, Skyler and Sarah were three of a few S Motors that kept their New York Central labeling and numbers. However, the S Motors were slowly being sidelined when New Haven’s EMD FL9 diesels were brought into Penn Central’s roster. Sparky, Skyler and Sarah were feeling very worried as their siblings were starting to be scrapped one by one. After Penn Central went bankrupt, while the remaining S Motors went to Conrail, Sparky, Skyler and Sarah went to Amtrak. After S Motor #115 was retired in 1981, Sparky, Skyler and Sarah became the only S Motors to remain in operation. While S Motors #111 and #113 were sent to live in museums.

By 1980, Sparky, Skyler and Sarah received news that Mohawk, Niagara, Hudson, Steele, Mark and Mercury were found by Ronnie and Terry (both made by Grantgfan and credit goes to Grantgfan). Once the six New York Central steamers came out of the shops, newly restored back to operational condition, finally met Sparky, Skyler and Sarah. And since then, Sparky, Skyler and Sarah pull small New York Central trains and/or switch New York Central trains in yards, they don’t mind it and gladly work with the other New York Central engines in keeping the spirit and memory of the New York Central System alive.

And so, that’s the backstory of Sparky, Skyler and Sarah. I hope you all enjoyed reading this backstory on these three S Motors, and stay tuned for the posts going over the backstories on the three P Motors and three NYC GP7s.

#new york central #new york central railroad #new york central system #electric locomotive #electric engine #train #trains #railroad #railroads #rail #rails #ttte #ttte oc #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine #passenger cars #passenger train #penn central #amtrak #history