Have you ever saw one of these?

[Kb4iuj]

I just saw this thing as I'm on The City of New Orleans heading towards NOL.

 

Looks like the weather forecasters are correct - rainy weather & possible flooding in the next day or so.

[cteno4]

Looks like its a GREX SlotMachine and SPS for doing general ROW maintenance. backhoes and such can run up and down the gondolas as the ends open up to each other.

 

https://georgetownrail.com/Material-Handling/SlotMachine-and-SPS

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Kb4iuj]

Yep... Lots of track maint going on.

 

Wonder what locomotive is under all that styrene.

[kvp]

Wonder what locomotive is under all that styrene.

According to a comment on another forum, it was originally an emd sw9.

[keiichi77]

Speno Rail had a few similar to this but it was a modified F40PH.

 

"The RMS-1 was powered by two Electro-Motive Division (EMD) locomotives specially built for Speno. They incorporated basic components from two different standard EMD designs, the F4OPH and GP38-2. The Speno locomotive car- bodies were similar to those used for the F4OPH, EMD’s standard 3,000-horsepower passenger locomotive introduced in 1976; they are 56 feet, 2 inches long. Speno made some external modifications to the locomotive cab by extending the front windows forward to a point almost even with the plane of the locomotive nose. Unlike the F4OPH, which was powered by a turbocharged 16-cylinder 645E engine that generated 3,000 horsepower for traction, Speno’s locomotives had the power plant and other components normally used in EMD’s popular GP38-2 road switcher. This included a normally aspirated 16-cylinder 645E engine that generated just 2,000 horsepower, and standard GP38-2 fuel tanks. Though EMD considered these locomotives variations of the GP38-2, they are usually classified as F4OPH-2Ms. Between 1982 and 1985, EMD built a total of four of these locomotives for Speno."

 

Source http://www.khurramhashmi.org/crbasic_info/maint_5.html about halfway down the page.