Owlface

The March 2007 picture in my All-Pennsy color calendar is four MP54 Owlface MU-cars parading west on the storied electrified Pennsy "Main-Line" between Philly and Paoli.
(Unfortunately I can't attach the picture, because the so-called "silly MAC" I do it with is far away at the Mac-Shack*.
Which means I'm cranking this in on Linda's PC [does that make it "silly?"], being rewarded with exploding hairballs and unexpected trips into the ozone.
I'm using TextPad because it's more efficient than NotePad [which lacks a spellchecker].
But it will do automatic HTML-tags, which is faster than cranking them in manually, but not as fast as an AppleWorks macro.
It also doesn't have all the HTML-tags - like the break-tag and the paragraph-tag, but we added them some time ago.
Most of the frustration comes from using an unfamiliar machine.
And in De Land you don't even have TextPad [or AppleWorks]- i.e. no spellcheck or HTML-tags. I have to crank directly into the FlagOut post-box - which lacks a spellcheck, otherwise the bluster-boy might not come off so bad.
Every rig I've ever driven anywhere has Word, which has a spellcheck; but Word also has too many magic keys that punish keyboard sloppiness (BRAIN-INJURY ALERT) by spiraling you off into the ozone.
And they're things that don't Command-Z; I've already tried.)
Owlfaces were the bane of railfanning.
Here you'd be waiting for a GG1, and an Owlface would appear.
That Owlface might be doing nearly the speed of a GG1-powered passenger-train, but compared to a hurtling GG1 it was a letdown.
But Owlfaces were the backbone of the "big red subway." They only supplied commuter-service, but Pennsy's commuter-districts were so extensive they needed the Owlface.
They had the advantage of being self-propelled passenger-cars, an idea that became the self-propelled diesel-powered RDC car, and later the self-propelled electric cars of the MetroLiner train in the '60s.
Self-propelled MetroLiners fizzled, and were replaced by individual unpowered MetroLiner coaches pulled by an AEM7 (AKA "toaster" and "Swedish meatball"). (The AEM7 was a Swedish design built by General Motors.)
Owlfaces were replaced by SilverLiners, and the Pennsy commuter-districts by SEPTA, DART, and New Jersey Transit, etc.
Passengers apparently hated the Owlfaces. They rode rough and were poorly heated. They also lacked air-conditioning.
The Owlfaces are trundling a snow-scene.
Pertinent to March up here, I suppose; but all our snow-cover might be gone by month's end.
The scene looks more like late January or early February.

* I'll try to add the pik someday.

Photo by Raymond Mueller.

Four Owlfaces.