From the Georgia Natoonal Fair today, GSP had a couple cars on display
In reply to ultraclyde :
Ah, the police package notchback. It's been so long since I've thought about one of those, I forgot the name... Oh, yeah, Special Service something.
I was living in Gainesville whenI talked to a FHP trooper that had one for a patrol car in about 1993. They had a huge patrol area, from I-10 at Lake City, all the way to Ocala. He said he'd only had it flat out once; he was in Lake City and got a call for "shots fired" from a trooper just north of Ocala at about 3 AM. Interstate 75 was empty at that hour, and he was rolling at about 140. He said he was shocked when some headlights appeared behind him, closing on him.
It was an FHP Caprice. It rolled past and the taillights disappeared within a couple of minutes. He estimated it's speed at about 155.
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914Driver said:
Holy-Bork. I was looking up Scamps and small travel trailers earlier today and found the exact Sam pic on Google earlier today!
Floating Doc said:In reply to ultraclyde :
Ah, the police package notchback. It's been so long since I've thought about one of those, I forgot the name... Oh, yeah, Special Service something.
I was living in Gainesville whenI talked to a FHP trooper that had one for a patrol car in about 1993. They had a huge patrol area, from I-10 at Lake City, all the way to Ocala. He said he'd only had it flat out once; he was in Lake City and got a call for "shots fired" from a trooper just north of Ocala at about 3 AM. Interstate 75 was empty at that hour, and he was rolling at about 140. He said he was shocked when some headlights appeared behind him, closing on him.
It was an FHP Caprice. It rolled past and the taillights disappeared within a couple of minutes. He estimated it's speed at about 155.
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I heard similar stories from some GSP guys about the Crown Vics of the day. They Vics were slightly faster on top end, and vastly better to drive at high rates of speed. But the Mustangs could get up to those speeds much quicker.
Last place I saw them in regular service was at the toll booths on GA400 north of Atlanta. Perfect for going from zero to stupid chasing down booth bypassers.
Tiger Mom collecting signatures at a HCTM concert.
Tale of Two Tugs.
In reply to KyAllroad (Jeremy) :
Don't we get to see the autograph?
Saw this today on my ride home:
Bird poop... or serial killer....???
Mrs Logdog won the costume contest at a dressage fun show last weekend.
Worst knock-knock joke ever.
Ready for Thanksgiving?
Went to Strasburg Rail Road and the Pennsylvania Rail Road Museum this weekend
Norfolk & Western #475 just came off her FRA 1472-day teardown and was sitting outside the shop gently steaming. She's a 4-8-0 "Mastodon", which wasn't a widely-used configuration in the US, other than the N&W. There are a few out there surviving, but #475 is the only operational
I was glad to see Strasburg #90 (nee Great Western #90) was the engine on duty today, because 10-15 years ago I came here with my father and we were the only 2 people to do the shop tour, so the guide let us up into the cab of #90 and quizzed me on the various controls (I aced it and surprised him). So I have a bit of a personal connection with this engine and it has a special place for me. She's only of only 2-10-0 "Decapods" operating in the US and was turned out by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1920, making her almost 100 years old.
I honestly figured I'd never see Norfolk & Western J-Class 4-8-4 Northern #611 but she's currently on loan from the Virginia Museum of Transportation. It was outside steaming and getting washed up.
PRR #460 is one of Pennsy's 80" drivered class E6 4-4-2 Atlantics. She became known as "The Lindbergh Engine" after completing a flyer of a run from DC to NYC in 2 hours, carrying footage of the ceremony for Lindbergh's transantlantic flight completion.
PRR #5901 is one of the first two diesel locomotives to arrive on the PRR line. She's also now the only EMD E7 locomotive in existence and even that was a fluke. When she was due for scrapping an employee hid her in a disused roundhouse. Not knowing she was supposed to be scrapped already, PRR execs decided to set #5900 and #5901 for preservation. It was too late for #5900 but #5901 was then produced from her hiding spot and saved.
In reply to NickD :
hmm. Strasburg? Train?
This is not PRR E2-class #7002. It's actually #8603, an E-7s class Atlantic. But the #7002, claimed to have gone 127mph, was scrapped before the PRR realized it, so for the 1939 World's Fair, they dressed down #8603 as #7002 to commemorate her unofficial record. It has stayed that way since.
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