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Published: 2008-12-31 00:43:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 585; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 17
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Description Norfolk Southern SD40-2's #3390 and #3396 along with SD60 #6650 sit outside NS's yard in Youngstown, Ohio. The barren land to the left is where some of the steel mills (Youngstown Sheet and Tube and US Steel) used to stand. The bridge is a former railroad bridge (one of many) that used to lead into the mills. That's the Mahoning River you flowing by.

I shot this through the fence on the bridge that runs over the track. The chain link was to small for me to get the lense through. I couldn't crop it in a way that I liked so I am posting it just like this.
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Comments: 20

Sylderon [2009-01-08 22:19:21 +0000 UTC]

Reminds me a bit of where the USS South Works used to be in Chicago. Now it's just a big empty field, a small yard for the EJ&E serving I don't know what customers, and brand new streets behind barricades that nobody drives on, with new traffic lights constantly flashing red...a bit depressing, when you think about it.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to Sylderon [2009-01-10 18:55:53 +0000 UTC]

That's the way Youngstown looks all along the Mahoning River. There are still a few reminders of the mills but not much else.

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Sylderon In reply to LDLAWRENCE [2009-01-22 17:48:57 +0000 UTC]

The only things left of the South Works are a small building that I think was a gatehouse, and the concrete walls of the storage docks alongside the lake.

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hunter1828 [2008-12-31 19:06:51 +0000 UTC]

Looking around online, apparently 6650 has had that patch since at least 2006, but I can't find out why. Also, apparently the other side of the cab isn't patched like that.

The "GSF" stands for Georgia Southern & Florida, one of Norfolk Southern's many subsidiaries. Many NS locomotives carry small reporting marks for one of their wholly-owned subsidiary companies for tax purposes. I've seen a photo of this unit with both "GSF" and later with "NS", which means it's possible that the company transfered ownership from GSF to NS at some point for some reason.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to hunter1828 [2009-01-03 19:27:48 +0000 UTC]

and I we're just talking about that.

Ahhh... that's what it stands for. I've seen many of the other subsidaries before, but never this one.

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zelos22 [2008-12-31 09:22:44 +0000 UTC]

ooo an overhead view. it came out nice! i like how the part of the chain link fence in the photo kinda made a natural border to it

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to zelos22 [2008-12-31 17:58:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I have wanted a shot like this for quite sometime now. It' something different from the norm.
It really does make a nice border. I couldn't bring myself to crop it out.

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labrat-78 [2008-12-31 01:00:47 +0000 UTC]

Interesting perspective. I like it.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to labrat-78 [2008-12-31 02:19:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I wanted to try for something different, I just wish I could have gotten a clear shot. I guess that's what kind of makes this one special though.

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labrat-78 In reply to LDLAWRENCE [2008-12-31 03:32:18 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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JDAWG9806 [2008-12-31 00:54:26 +0000 UTC]

That SD60 looks odd.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to JDAWG9806 [2008-12-31 02:18:18 +0000 UTC]

I know. I can't understand why it has the patch on it.

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Joseph-W-Johns In reply to JDAWG9806 [2008-12-31 00:59:20 +0000 UTC]

No scratch the previous message I found other pics of the patch the oldest dates back to 2005

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Joseph-W-Johns In reply to JDAWG9806 [2008-12-31 00:56:04 +0000 UTC]

I looked at other shots on RRParchives and I can't find any other shot of this engine showing the patch numbering on the left side. One person says that 6650 may have been wrecked once.

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Joseph-W-Johns [2008-12-31 00:49:17 +0000 UTC]

I noticed that 6650 has patch like numbering I wonder why

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to Joseph-W-Johns [2008-12-31 02:16:50 +0000 UTC]

I was wondering the same thing. It looks like the same patch that they used on the old CR units, but from what I could find the unit is NS through and through. It did have NS style lettering at one point, but it changed some where between 2005 and 2006. Also I have seen "GSF" associated with this unit.

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Joseph-W-Johns In reply to LDLAWRENCE [2008-12-31 02:21:30 +0000 UTC]

Well many of the SD60 are lettered for SOU despite never being in SOU paint and I noticed that with the GP59 to and that I never understood.

I wonder why it's sub lettered for any other road besides ns.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to Joseph-W-Johns [2008-12-31 02:28:38 +0000 UTC]

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From what it looks like, it's only patched on one side of the cab.

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Joseph-W-Johns In reply to LDLAWRENCE [2008-12-31 02:30:35 +0000 UTC]

That makes even less sense to me unless it got scratched off somehow.

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LDLAWRENCE In reply to Joseph-W-Johns [2008-12-31 03:12:30 +0000 UTC]

That must have been it, that or somebody vandilized it.

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