mack@c... wrote:
>
> The U30C and U23C are virtually indestinguishable from each other,
> having the same full-height radiator carbody (GE seemed to love to
> to switch engines withoutmaking carbody changes). However, because
> of the U23C's smaller engine, it actually has less full-height
> engine access doors on the hood vs. the U30
>
= The U30 series phase II had angled sheet metal at the top foreward
= end of the radiator housing bulge going to the top of the engine room
hood.
> Where it starts to get confuding is when the 10 U30B's 140-
> 149 came in also in 1966. These Actually started life as U28B's but
> were immediately upgraded to 3000 HP U30B's. Since GE used the Phase
> II U28B carbodies on their Phase I U30B's these 10 U30B units are
> identical to the 10 U28B's. Again, the identification plate is about
> the only thing that differentiates them on the Q.
= The U28bs weren't upgraded untill the summer of 68 according to Al
Holck's
= book and photographic evidence shows that they kept the original U28
= model plates.
Gordon
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