Sunday, August 26, 2012

Norfolk Southern

 
Rare but far from unheard of spotting of a freight locomotive on the New Jersey Transit line. Looks like it was just cleaned, such a shiny engine. Norfolk Southern, known in the business as The Thoroughbred due to the stallion in its logo.



Norfolk Southern locomotives are often called catfish because the logo also includes stripes which resemble the whiskers of the catfish. I see a locomotive and I dream of hobo hope, hopping aboard to a yard where they let you be, where you’re a given a fair chance at work that will pay for food and shelter.

I dream of a country united by a system of freight that allows us to move my goods to your services, north to south, south to north, west to east, east to east, cities and suburbs and farmland, mountains and sea shores, it’s not virtual like an internet, but real, slicing right through nature and the birds flying overhead in New Jersey may be different species than one above your head in Kansas but there are still birds, and clouds and blue sky and the heavens where God sits in His throne smiling on us both, please his creation created the iron horse and the last great hope for mankind used this form of transportation to unite a nation after the bloodiest civil war in the history of the world.

 

Norfolk Southern has 21,300 miles of track in 22 states, its system ships most of the coal in used in the Eastern portion of the United States. This particular machine is the EMD GP38-2, a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road-switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division. It can run on both diesel and electric rails. Power is provided by an EMD 645E 16-cylinder engine, which generates 2000 horsepower.



 



Let all trains roll on. Norfolk Southern keeps both the individual and national hope alive. This locomotive can make both hopes one.

 

 

 

 

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