Railfest 2009: Human Interest

So your child is about to walk in front of someone else's video camera while he's snapping off pictures of his own - how do you get him to stop? Why, you stand right behind the operator of the video camera and you YELL to the child, of course! Yeah, that's the ticket! (sigh) Ah well, at least he didn't bump the tripod.

With a little more human interest of the audio kind than I normally like, ES40DCs 7599 and 7520 descend through Horseshoe Curve on the point of a manifest freight on June 29, 2009. Shiny-clean SD40Es 6311 and 6303 help out with braking from the rear.

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[hhp8]

don't u mean es44? does ns have es44ah's?

[FastFlyingVirginian]

They have two dozen ES44ACs now, but they are numbered in the low 8000s, 8000-8023, and for now I think they are kept in coal service in the Pocahontas region. I remember reading they were also ballasting them with extra weight similar to what CSX did with the AHs, but I don't know if they are calling NS' version an AH officially.

[trainutjob]

Nice video, you gotta hate it when people do that.

[FastFlyingVirginian]

Yep. I think he must have seen the look on my face or seen the large microphone on top of the camera, because they stayed on the other side of the park the rest of the time they were there. :)

[hbkrulez1]

love those sd40es but gosh i hate the horn. coulda put a better one on there

[Squawk7600]

Maybe he thinks you are doing "silent films", LoL-- of course that big 'ole mic on your tripod setup SHOULD be a giveaway!! Gotta love that horn on the pushers-- and he was having fun with it, too, LoL!!

[Stephenson18]

Nice P5 on the sd40-e

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

thats 36A you see here!

[trainutjob]

lol.