[Jonatan]

thegrindre, on 03 March 2017 - 03:42 PM, said:

Ooooooooooooooooooo, beautiful blue!!! http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/drool3.gif

Thanks Rick. :good:

[DRelyea]

East of the Susquehanna River,










Doug Relyea

[mmcdude]

NW didn't buy any new, but they did have the ex-Wabash units.

[hiball3985]

When you realize you have more F's then socks and underwear I may need to check my priorities :rotfl:

[hiball3985]

[timmuir]

hiball3985, on 04 March 2017 - 06:37 AM, said:

When you realize you have more F's then socks and underwear I may need to check my priorities :rotfl:

:rotfl: thanks Jim, I needed a good laugh to start the day with. Great shots in a great thread!

[railguy]

A lot of steam lovers despised the F-units because they were perceived as the diesel locomotives that vanquished steam. Way back when I was young, I sort of felt that way about them. Today, though, I realize how really timeless their design was/is. No locomotive, before or since, has equaled their clean, "smooth" look. And, of course, while their horsepower and tractive effort was meager compared to today's locomotives, their fuel and combustion efficiency for the power they generated were, like it or not, a huge improvement over steam locomotives. A testament to the good prime mover design was that the basic EMD 2-cycle Roots blower design that the F's 567 prime mover pioneered lasted all the way up to the last couple years in US locomotives, and is still sold overseas in markets where Tier 4 is not yet in effect.

As far as modeling goes, there are a lot of good F's out there, and many were modeled quite nicely back when modeling was pretty crude in MSTS. They have stood the test of time well, just like the prototypes.

[hiball3985]

Thanks Tim. I'm not laughing now, just realized I need to do laundry or wear yesterdays :dance3:

[thegrindre]

railguy, on 04 March 2017 - 07:54 AM, said:

A lot of steam lovers despised the F-units because they were perceived as the diesel locomotives that vanquished steam. Way back when I was young, I sort of felt that way about them. Today, though, I realize how really timeless their design was/is. No locomotive, before or since, has equaled their clean, "smooth" look. And, of course, while their horsepower and tractive effort was meager compared to today's locomotives, their fuel and combustion efficiency for the power they generated were, like it or not, a huge improvement over steam locomotives. A testament to the good prime mover design was that the basic EMD 2-cycle Roots blower design that the F's 567 prime mover pioneered lasted all the way up to the last couple years in US locomotives, and is still sold overseas in markets where Tier 4 is not yet in effect.

As far as modeling goes, there are a lot of good F's out there, and many were modeled quite nicely back when modeling was pretty crude in MSTS. They have stood the test of time well, just like the prototypes.

YES!!! Fantastic info!!! http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/sign_rockon.gif Railguy.

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[thegrindre]

http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif Jim, you post a lot of favorites. Is that legal? http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif Can a person have more then one favorite of the same thing? http://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/pardon.gif
I love it... Keep 'em comin'...

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