I like the red-n-grey scheme, myself ?a very hard to find model, by the way.
Unfortunately, I?m just a modeler, not a real railroader ?so I was never there
and only have old photos and the word of those who were to go by.
Athearn, also painted their "freight" F units silver (even though they never
were?think graybacks and harbor mist)(this issue has been addressed in this
forum fairly recently) with a big red stripe down the side completely in error,
un-like the way cars which actually were silver with said big red stripe and
the decal companies went alone with it. I?ve got some of the most beautiful
motive power you?ve ever seen to prove it. Trains that never was?from before I
knew better.
About the recent flooding.
Great flood reporting from the effected areas. They?re pretty interesting to
read. YAHOO!, has published a number of photos showing the power of the mighty
Mississippi (Samuel Clemens said it would never be tamed by man and he was
right) Does this group allow attachments? I wouldn?t mind getting? some, here
if they were CBQ related.
The odd cornfield meet.
As far as the Naperville disaster, wasn?t that caused by excessive speed and
ignoring signals, not SUV?S? (I know they didn?t have ?em then) Anyway, you
wouldn?t believe some of the wrecks we get here. (Texas has the most graded
crossings in the nation) There?s nothin? like a garbage truck stuck on a graded
crossing to ruin your day?at 50 miles an hour.
--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] If Burlington had purchased F/FP45's?
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:26 PM
Well, we already know what Chinese Red F Units might have looked like.....
Athearn painted their F7 in a
Red and Gray scheme. It wasn't attractive.
I think Passenger Silver, "Blackbird", and Chinese Red FP45/F45s have been done
before. I'm not sure that
the Q would have gone to them.... if there had been a need, say to replace the
E5s or E7s, it would have been
part of a larger trend and maybe there would have been an E10 in the EMD
Catalog.
The Q was a big fan of having two prime movers on board a unit for reliability.
....something the FP45 and F40
couldn't do. I think it would have been more likely that the Q would have done
a Morrision Knudson thing and
had the units rebuilt with more up to date power assemblies. Look what the BN
did to make their executive
F units.... maybe something along those lines. A few years later and you would
have seen microprocessor control,
better wiring, and comfort cab features.
I don't think the Q would have made the mistakes that AMTRAK did with their
units and would never have allowed
some of the stuff METRA and the BNSF are enamoured with on their railroad. The
BNSF commuter business
people LOVE the Canadian design cars that shredded when they hit the SUV parked
on the tracks.... guess the
lessons of the Naperville Wreck didn't make it through the BN to the BNSF.
Charlie Vlk
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