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Reason

Quality photo of Canadian National Railway freight train in Alberta, Canada. The train is fronted with three locomotive models, front to back: EMD SD70M-2, SD75I and SD60F. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Canadian National Railway

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Land

Creator

David Gubler

• Support as nominator – Bammesk ( talk) 00:48, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply

Just above the locomotive, that stained-glass effect on the background is a heat distortion from smoke or something? It looks odd, so I'd like to figure out what it is before supporting. Adam Cuerden ^{( talk)}_{Has about 8% of all FPs} 02:02, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply

• Yes, that is heat haze owing to the exhaust vent on the top of the loco. -- Tagooty ( talk) 03:27, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Adam, that's the exhaust haze of the locomotive's engine. These locomotives run on a diesel engine. The power generated by the diesel engine is then converted to electricity. This electricity then runs electric motors which turn the locomotive's wheels. Therefore the name " diesel-electric locomotive". There is a brief description here: [1] and videos. In the nom photo, the front locomotive is a SD70M-2, it has a 16 cylinder diesel engine: [2] Bammesk ( talk) 04:10, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply

  Support, then. Adam Cuerden ^{( talk)}_{Has about 8% of all FPs} 10:18, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply

• Support Excellent image, good EV. -- Tagooty ( talk) 02:32, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Support I'm partial to trains... see [3] ;-) -- Janke | Talk 09:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Comment – Me too, up to a point – but this pic. is seven years old. – Sca ( talk) 12:39, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
  • So what? Here, we're still running engines that were built in the 1960s... such as VR_Class_Dv12 - they don't look any different in older pictures. -- Janke | Talk 12:47, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Support Beautiful image! Even a non-train fan can appreciate it :) JungleEntity ( talk) 16:52, 21 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Support Great photo with strong EV Nick-D ( talk) 23:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC) reply
• Support. MER-C 15:24, 24 July 2022 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:CN 8015, 5690 and 5517 Hinton - Jasper.jpg -- Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:18, 31 July 2022 (UTC) reply