unique ns engine

[ForThemPanzerz]

engine number ns34

[richg]

engine number ns34

Looks like it. I just found the photo of NS 34. Fun research. Must have been renumbered.

http://www.altoonaworks.info/pics/ocs.html


Where did you see this?
I live in Western, MA, Pan Am RR country, called the Patriot Corridor and see a NS once in a while. Both companies are linked.
The rails though my area are being upgraded to double track for the Amtrak, Vermonter.

Rich

[jettrainfan]

Yep, that's the NS geometry train, I've ran into it more than once in person. 

[jward]

that research slug is not actually a locomotive, but contains the instrumentation for measuring forces related to the track which are read in the passenger car that travels with the train. i am not exactly sure of its capabilities, but it is something along the lines of the doodlebugs that sperry uses.

[ForThemPanzerz]

it is still sitting on a sidding in burns harbor porter county indiana

[richg]

Some searching for Norfolk Southern research train. Research slug.

http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=8208

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ymlo944-c

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopicture.aspx?id=13766

How to model one.

http://www.southernexchange.net/geometry.html

Rich