Received the following via email.
Remember when Conrail's brand-new B36-7s were delivered in late 1983 with these SP-esque fabricated sheet metal side air intake 'shields'?
And remember when it was rare to see any CR van train that didn't have a trio or quartet of B36-7s or GP40-2s for power? It was all just yesterday...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1774148
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1624194
CR B36-7 #5010, featured prominently in the above two Chicago Line in Indiana scenes, has since sprouted four more axles, changed gauges and road number, and now works in Brazil toting cargo and passengers! She still sported most of her CONRAIL QUALITY scheme in South America, as recently as eight years ago. As a BB36-7, the unit now seems more suited to mineral drag service with all those traction motors than high-speed van trains, though (wearing the full paint of new owner, Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas), she even hauls passengers:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1671701
Echoes of the Union Pacific / Southern Pacific giant B-B U50 model:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=750580
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=GE%20U50
http://gelwood.railfan.net/sp/sp9552a.jpg
The new VALE "breached police line tape" scheme is likely in #703's future, as seen on repainted ex-CR B36-7 sisters #701 (ex-CR 5000) and #736 (ex-CR #5031):
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2343175
http://www.railfan.net/railpix/submit/pedrorezende/.p.cgi?736_cargueiro_vagoes_GDE_patio_vespasiano_17out2008.jpg
