A pair of ‘yard goats’

RLCX1258GB_300402

LAZINESS, ARTISTIC STATEMENT, or just plain run out of numerals, whatever, SW9 RLCX 1258 has just about the most half-arsed livery application that I have ever seen. The offending owner is Relco Locomotives, Inc., and this ‘gem’ was recorded at the massive ADM plant in Clinton, Iowa, on April 30th, 2002. The yellow switcher was built in 1951 for the Chesapeake & Ohio.

AMTK537GB_170402

Originally built for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie in 1975, this particular MP15DC was wearing the silver and black paint of Amtrak by the time it was photographed at Albany-Rensselaer, New York, on April 17th, 2002. AMTK 537, one of ten ex-P&LE MPs purchased by the passenger operator, shares its number with one of the big, but sadly unsuccessful, SDP40F locomotives that joined and left the Amtrak roster in the 1970s and early 1980s.