Down at Brooklyn Yard
We went to the Brooklyn Bay this morning for Russell's birthday party, and on the way back to our (temporarily furnaceless and very cold) big yellow house, we spotted the 700 sitting on the Brooklyn Roundhouse turntable. Now, normally the big steam engines aren't just left sitting outside (they had enough of that at Oaks Park), so we drove over by the roundhouse to see if anything interesting was going to happen.
First generation Alco hood units are so pretty it's almost criminal.
When we got there, the 700 was just sitting on the turntable, but as I hopped out of the car to get a picture of it and the ex-Utah RSD-5 that was idling away on one of the ready tracks, the shop switcher (a little trackmobile) came puttering out of one of the bays, coupled on to the 700, and with a mighty HEAVE started pulling it into the roundhouse.
The mighty trackmobile in action.
We would have stayed longer, but it was cold and the bears were getting hungry.