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The Great U-Boat Chase: II by ~TheNorthern:iconTheNorthern:

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Gaining ahead, I risked life and limb standing on a narrow overpass with a blind curve on a busy road. But the shot was worth it, and I didn't have long to wait as the U Boats were right on my heels. I don't need to say how great these guys sounded coming up grade through the valley.

"SHUGG-SHUGG-SHUGG-SHUGG-SHUGG-SHUGG..."

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=sullivan1985 Sep 1, 2006, 9:24:44 AM
Not only would the sound been orgasmic, but just to see some u-boats still running would be completely awesome.

NJ Transit used to run about 30 something U34CHs from the Erie Lackawanna and it was so cool when those bad-ass locomotives would go chugging by at 70MPH.

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-Sully

Photography pho · tog · ra · phy - (n): The art of trial & error.
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~jdawg9806 Sep 1, 2006, 3:22:41 PM
i wish i could photograph some u boats, but every railroad near me retired them a year before i got into photography well i guess a super dash 7 would count since they were a u boat.

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Zim: You're nothing Earth boy! Go home and shave your giant head of smell with your bad self!
Dib: Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
~invader zim

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~DocHott Sep 1, 2006, 5:32:27 PM
Great shots ! :thumbsup:

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"Once you go black you never go back" ;P
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~Leadfoot17 Sep 1, 2006, 5:55:44 PM
Nice shot!

The GEs make such a splendid sound, don't they? =)

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"Oh, brilliant! So you're saying that the best thing about your four-seater cabriolet is that you can only fit two people in it? God, you do talk some rubbish sometimes!" -Richard Hammond, Top Gear.
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Mood: Drooling ~deke8706 Sep 1, 2006, 9:30:03 PM
OH MAN, reminds me of chasing the LS&I's ex-BN U-Boats in the UP of Michigan last summer. I dunno what was better: listening to them comming up the hill from the docks with 100+ empties, or listening to them idle at Eagle Mills Jct while a trio of WC SD45s throttled up out that rock cut... I miss the LS&I, I need to get back there in the next year or two.

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Dereck
Iowa Northern Railway's company photographer

My main website with links to the rest of them= [link]

Modeling the CB&Q/BN Savanna, IL to La Crosse, WI
1968-1988
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~TheNorthern Sep 11, 2006, 6:12:12 AM
I have a Pentrex tape called "U Boat Survivors" that feature TTI and LS&I, including some cool old footage of their U25C and U28C's in the neat red and green schemes.

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"I am just an advertisement, for a version of myself."
-from David Byrne's "Angels"
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~TheNorthern Sep 11, 2006, 6:13:48 AM
Ooh, they do! :)

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"I am just an advertisement, for a version of myself."
-from David Byrne's "Angels"
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~TheNorthern Sep 11, 2006, 6:14:40 AM
Thanks so much!

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"I am just an advertisement, for a version of myself."
-from David Byrne's "Angels"
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~TheNorthern Sep 11, 2006, 6:16:30 AM
Well, DASH &'s look and sound just like true U Boats, so I don't see why you can consider them U Boats, too, although these are true U Boats here.

CSX crews use to call these guys, "Rock Crushers." Cool nickname, huh?

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"I am just an advertisement, for a version of myself."
-from David Byrne's "Angels"
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