{"id":9732,"date":"2015-01-23T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2015-01-17T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:14:25","slug":"lost-treasure-of-the-golden-swoosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lost-treasure-of-the-golden-swoosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Treasure of the Golden Swoosh."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been prevailed upon to tell this tale:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Was it January 11th<\/sup> 2015, when word came over the wire?<\/p>\n

Fellow photographer Pat Yough said to me, and I repeat, \u2018the Golden Swoosh has been sighted at Buffalo and is heading this way.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The what?\u2019 said I.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Golden Swoosh! It\u2019s all the rage. Something about the black swoosh is yellow on one of the BNSF GE\u2019s.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Whoa. Back the trolley up. What\u2019s all this about?\u2019<\/p>\n

So far as I can determine, sometime ago a four-lettered shoe company produced a special runner (that\u2019s an \u2018athletic shoe\u2019 in American parlence). And,\u00a0this deluxe edition shoe carried a yellow tinted zinger on the side and was known as \u2018the Golden Swoosh\u2019.<\/p>\n

This curious term, it seems, was then transferred to a BNSF Railway General Electric Evolution-Series locomotive painted in a one of a kind variation of the company\u2019s livery.<\/p>\n

Instead of black lettering with angled underline (a \u2018swoosh\u2019 as it were), the \u2018BNSF\u2019 lettering and corporate underline logo was painted yellow thus creating\u00a0a unique adaptation of the BNSF image on locomotive 7695.<\/p>\n

And this curious painted variation was eastbound on CSX leading a laden oil train destined for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The wire was live with reports. It was seen south of Selkirk and rolling down along the Hudson on CSX\u2019s River Line.<\/p>\n

But then, just as it seemed that this locomotive note-worthy for its yellow underline, was nearly upon us, word came in that it was at Kearny Yard\u00a0where\u00a0it was tied down and without a crew.<\/p>\n

And so, another day passed, swooshless.<\/p>\n

Finally, after long last,\u00a0on the evening of January 13th the famed \u2018golden swoosh\u2019 was again on the move.<\/p>\n

The weather was cold and the sky was dark. Pat and I visited Neshaminy Falls on the old Reading Company. No swoosh. Then to Langhorne where CSX\u2019s Q417 passed in the gloom\u00a0(144 axles\u00a0led by engines CSX 8768 and 8836). This was followed by CSX\u2019s Q191 led by\u00a05359 and 509 followed by containers.<\/p>\n

\"CSX<\/a>
CSX Q191 rolls though Langhorne, Pennsylvania on the old Reading Company Trenton Line on January 13, 2015. Canon EOS 7D photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the end\u00a0we went to Woodbourne: finally a\u00a0headlight appeared on the horizon. The catenary glistened. and the low chug of a GE engine shook the ground.<\/p>\n

And there, leading a mighty train of oil, was the ‘Golden Swoosh.\u2019<\/p>\n

I racked up the ISO to make some effort to mark its passing.<\/p>\n

\u2018There it is!\u2019<\/p>\n

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My Canon captured this view of the famed ‘Golden”Swoosh.’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"BNSF_golden_swoosh_IMG_9954\"<\/a>\"BNSF_golden_swoosh_IMG_9955\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And there it goes.<\/p>\n

Sort of reminded me of the time Britain\u2019s Queen Elizabeth waved to me on one of her trips through Dublin in 2011.<\/p>\n

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