Tom, Can you offer anything on the EL E's that found their way into Cicero
Yard in the early 70's. Bill ps......In the early BN
days......sorry, Everyone loved getting SD-45's but the EL's had dual
control stands in the cabs and when used as headend power in a consist,
everyone felt cramped.
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From: <mack@c...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Update on CB&Q/EL pool power
> In a message in Extra 2200 South Magazine dated 12/27/69, R.A.
> Eisenbrandt states that the Hammond Yard Pool is working well. Q
> units that have the EL radio channel are being seen on run throughs.
> Chicago 12/21/69 saw CB&Q U25C 561 mu'ed with EL SDP45 3653 (so add a
> very unique type of locomotive to your Q consists). Also CB&Q GP40
> 179 and SD45 516 were seen on NE-97 to Chicago 12/26 (is this a Q
> train or an EL train?). The post states that Q units on other runs
> are rarely seen and that SD45's are the most common pooled power by
> EL and Q. Interestingly, EL 3653 was built in 6/69 and was the last
> SDP45 built for EL before the BN merger (the next batch of SDP45's
> started coming in 7/70). The EL SD45-2's didn't start coming in until
> 11/72. So it looks like we could safely add EL SD45's 3601-3634 and
> SDP45's 3635-3653 to the late 1960's CB&Q/EL pool trains. Final note,
> I have seen shots of pure CB&Q 3 unit SD45 lashups on the EL in New
> York, so the above comment about SD45's being the most common pooled
> power makes sense.
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> Tom Mack
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