Now this is a good looking locomotive!

Yeah I agree.  The Berks were well proportioned, great lines hands down. 

Just my opinion, if you really want to see the minute detail, B&W photos are the way to go.

Excellent shot, but that green vest...

DV

A really nice looking locomotive but I still think the NYC Hudson was better proportioned overall. Love those Berkshires though. 

Btw, a safety vest is mandatory on today's railroads. May be ugly but you must wear it.

The safety vest is NOT mandatory in the cab of the locomotive, ESPECIALLY a steam locomotive! The vest/jackets are mandatory if personnel are on the ground.

Once it has been pointed out to pilot crew members that those vests/jackets are made out of polyester, the pilots quickly take them off. Besides, the weekend trip that was operated with 4449, last month, on BNSF, we tried to make sure no one in the cab had a vest/jacket on (they are NOT required by Amtrak, anyway).

Eh.

It's ok...

Rusty

Thanks Jack for the correction, that's what I get for listening to the wrong people,

Dave

765 looks grand, but the best lines of any Berk in this writer's humble opinion was without a doubt L&N's M1s.  The Big Emmas had painted yellow straight running boards which matched the tender stripes perfectly and had a neatly packaged smoke box and sand dome.  That's not a knock on 765 at all, I'm happy she's alive and well.

That bright green vest sure ruins the picture. Your eyes are just drawn to it.

Maybe we could PhotoShop it out of there. Otherwise a great photo.

What was he thinking?

Flame & high heat cause polyester to MELT and stick to the wearer! The cab of a steam locomotive is NOT the place for any clothing drastically affected by flame or heat. That is why ONLY 100% cotton work clothes are, and have been, worn by railroaders since before the Civil War.

Thank you.

Thanks Ed, nice picture. 

Thanks Marker.

Amazing, a photo of a really pretty locomotive and eight of the 13 posts

are about a green vest.

Ed

works pretty well for dramatic pictures also....

The big Lima berks are my favoriate locomotive.

Here is a few shots of them that I have taken.

I'm kinda partial to that Berk...not sure why. 

Looks better in person..and sounds better too !

All of the other photos posted here show the engine very lovely, indeed.But none of them show her good lines with that lovely twelve wheel tender, boy what a matched pair.  Black and white? She looks pretty dxxxx good in color

in the linked photo in my original post above. We see a ton of photos of her in "wedgie" type shots, you don't see many of her sideways the right distance away to show those nice lines.

Ed Mullan

best one I have with the tender that works as a B&W....you'll have to excuse the overly large flags.

Kevin

Here is another shot of the 765 

This is another nice photo...

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=409669&nseq=19

Here is some video I shot of her in Pittsburgh this past August...

What has become of 759 that had a life like the 765?

sitting at Steamtown NHS in Scranton, PA.  Probably a bit big for what they normally run.  It's in the line of future restorations, but the way that place goes, that means they might get to it in 50 years or so.

Kevin