I think the lesson(s) Charlie was referring to re the Naperville RE collision
was the danger of "sandwiching" lightweight cars ie SILVER INN between
heavyweights.
There were no crossings involved or SUV's
Pete
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From: Frankensteam <earlraysa@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 9:17 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] If only Burlington had purchased F/FP45's?
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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