According to the Burlington Northern 1973 Annual, the Q bought the
U23C's to power southern Illinois coal trains.
Thank you kindly,
Mike Matalis
Downers Grove IL
On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:16 PM, bkobielusz wrote:
> Hi All
> Any educated guesses on why the Q would purchase the U23C's? They
> were sort of an
> odd locomotive was it maybe for the long speed runs across
> Nebraska? If so I ended up
> seeing them quite a bit in Sheridan Wyoming right before the merger
> which if anyone
> know has has considerable grades. It does not seem thatit was a
> good territory for them
> with the low horsepower trying to pull tonnage over long grades...!
>
> Brad K
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