Southern Railway train #219 passes thru Howell Junction with a mid-train Radio Control Car receiving radio telementry from the lead locomotive,          
Southern Railway 905930, a predecessor to DPU technology, had MU capabilty to allow any locomotive on the roster to serve as DPU power
Date: 9/7/1981 Location: Atlanta, GA Views: 2774 Collection Of:   Bernie Feltman
Locomotives: SOU 3166(SD45) SOU 3058(SD35)   Rolling Stock: SOU 905930 (Other/Not Listed) Author:  Bernie Feltman
Southern Railway train #219 passes thru Howell Junction with a mid-train Radio Control Car receiving radio telementry from the lead locomotive,
Picture Categories: Action This picture is part of album:  Southern Railway Georgia action shots
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Atlanta Rails General Not as efficient but certaintly more interesting than DPU's, good shot. If i tried this today id probably be arrested! 7/3/2009 4:59:24 PM
Darrell Krueger General Just as efficient as todays DPU's. The only difference is that the electronics back in those days were so huge that you had to have a dedicated car. Now they're so small that they can fit in an equipment rack right ahead of the engineer. 10/3/2010 9:17:50 PM
George Redmond General Good shot, Good catch Bernie. 11/21/2010 12:14:34 PM
Charles Burgess General Excellent photo! 11/22/2010 12:34:18 AM
Dale Burns General That's a fine shot Bernie!! Man I wish I'd have taken some photos of those!! 11/22/2010 1:30:05 AM
Jeffrey Allen General Thanks for this wonderful shot. 11/22/2010 8:57:05 AM
Fred Stuckmann General Cool shot. 11/22/2010 11:56:21 AM
Karl Rethwisch General 11/22/2010 1:07:03 PM
Karl Rethwisch General A "Stealth" RCU receiver. GREAT shot Bernie !!!! 11/22/2010 1:08:08 PM
Clifford Nunn General The one time that I sat there on the acess road ( early 80's) I was asked to leave. I sat in a area next to the building behind the train just above the s on the radio car 11/22/2010 6:55:30 PM
David Barrentine General Nice catch and shot Bernie! 11/22/2010 7:41:53 PM
Dennis Weber General Nice Catch & Shot. 11/23/2010 4:52:22 PM
Bryan Smith General Through the early 1980's these were referred to as "slave units". In the mid 1980's political correctness dictated that they be called "radio units". 11/28/2010 7:23:06 AM
G Gerard General Awesome catch! 12/23/2010 9:55:42 AM
Terry Tsutsumi General Just love that berrwick radio control car! It rocks have a few of the wrighttrak models of!!not to mention fantastic photo op!!! 2/24/2013 9:42:07 PM

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