Some of the Q E7's had sheet metal placed over the space where the louvred
doors were, others did not.
Of interest was that the Q seemed to be one of only a handful of railroads
leaving the louvred doors alone. Most others seemed to have replaced them with
a door with two grates, one on top of the other.
Also, many railroads, such as the New York Central and the Gulf Mobile and
Ohio, chose to modify the sides of the units by replacing the anterior double
window with a single window and adding a grating ahead of it at window level.
It seems like E7s could not be left alone for some reason, unlike E8's and
E9's, which were generally not modified until the Amtrak era.
sjl
trains1919 <andy@andyfletcherartist.com> wrote:
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Ewout" <ewout@...> wrote:
>
> by the way, I am pretty sure it is panneled over. My picture is
pretty sharp, in a color book called "E-Units" by Henry Maywald.
There don't appear to be any hinges. On these units, I think they
just closed up the intake. Again, no expert, just going by what I
have seen in E7 pictures.
Andy
Hi guys,
>
> could anyone shed some light (or point me in the right direction) on
the airfilter doors on
> the E7 motor? I'm talking about the louvred doors behind the cab doors.
>
> I see pictures of Q E7's without them and since I have a duplicate
number I thought it
> would be nice to change that feature aswell as renumering one.
>
> What is difficult to make out is, is it still a door, or just a
panel? IE. do I need to remove
> the hinges?
>
> some side questions: what supply of air was actually filtered? And
was there a filter also
> with the non-louvered panel? Where did it get the supply of air
then? From the regular
> intake grille behind it?
>
>
>
> Anyone have a spare set of Proto E7 grabs, liftrings and horns? ;-)
>
>
> Thanks, Ewout
>
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