Tim --
I don't know whether these engines ever got off the C&S-FW&D corridor. No
doubt others on the list who know more about Second Generation diesels,
power pooling, leasing, &c. will be able to answer that. The thing to keep
in mind about the C&S's U30Cs and SD40s, though, is that they arrived
awfully late in the game (1967-68). So they had just a few years of service
before the merger. Unlike the Burlington proper, the C&S did keep its
separate idenetity (and lettering) until 1981, so if you're modeling the BN
during the '70s, you have vastly more latitude in where you send these
units. But it would seem unlikely the railroad's premier power would have
strayed very far from home when it was still so new, especially since the
Southern always tended to be short on motive power.
What is certainly true, though, is that during the steam era, when the C&S
leased a fair number of engines (especially the M-3 2-10-2s) from its
coporate parent, it also was the lessor of at least a few of its own
engines. A couple of its ten wheelers (nos. 330 and 331) pulled passenger
trains for a good long while on the Burlington's Black Hills lines -- those
4-6-0s being heavier than Q's own K-4s or K-10s. And the C&S's original
mikados (the E-4As, their equivalent of the Q's O-1s) spent much of their
life at work in switching/transfer service on the Beardstown division,
Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul, and other Burlington yards. The C&S also leased
the Q a few of their consolidations over the years.
So while I'd kinda doubt it happened much in the case of the U30Cs, there
is historical precedent for leasing in the "reverse" direction, if you need
to justify your lust for one of these cool new models. Depends really on
how much of a stickler you are for "authenticity" -- or to put it another
way, what "authenticity" means to you. They're far FAR too late for
anything I model, and I can't imagine ever operating them on my RR, but
they're also really neat looking engines -- second only to the GP30 in my
book as the handsomest of the Q's 2nd Gen power. I may just have to get one
...
jonathan
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