Tom,
Track you are in that photo should be right on
Oakland Tower. This would be on train #82. Would
be just running along with a ride on the F7's.
CB&Q did not doubleheader units unless there was
some situation of a very unusual situation. One of
the basic questions would be, "where would they get
an engineer at Daytons Bluff"? Did there send an
engineer from La Crosse to get them there? What would
there be doing? It is dead flat railroad. Would make
no sense and most of all the CB&Q did not waste money.
Actually the units that did MU on F3-7's had other
problems and could only be used like that with other
F3-7's. You could not put say a GP7 in a lead behind
an F3-7. The 6BLQ would involve other problems. GP7
would always have no be in the rear or the middle,
not on the head end whether it had MU on not. GP7,
GP9, SD7, SD9 were all 6BLQ. GN also had similar
problems, NP usually did not.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Mack" <thommack@yahoo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 18 September, 2008 06:57
Subject: [CBQ] Interesting Q F-Units Photo, Info, and Questions
> Marty Bernard just posted this photo on the web:
>
> http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1319376
>
> Things to note:
>
> 1. F7's 167-ABC still have not had the unit letter applied as of
> 6/19/1964. BB #4 P. 14 shows that sister F7A 168-C had already had the
> letter added by May 1962. Same BB P. 22 shows 169-A had letter added
> by October 1964. P. 12 shows that as late as 5/26/1965 F7A/F3B/F3A set
> 164 still did not have the letters added. Many F3's and even FT's had
> already had the large letters added by the early 1960's (as a result
> of being split up from their original sets).
>
> 2. The F's are trailing behind a GP30/HH-EMD/GP30/GP30 set. So they
> are either dead or this train is truly being doubleheaded or 167 had
> nose MU (Q F's normally had no nose MU). Or did 167 have nose MU (see
> next item)? (BTW, if 167 did not have nose MU, this gives modelers an
> excuse to prototypically run any trailing A units nose first - but
> they are either dead or double-headed.)
>
> 3. BB #4 P. shows F3A 122-D with nose MU and states that 122-D was one
> of "about eight units equipped with nose M.U. during the early
> sixties". In addition to 122-D does anyone know what other Q F's
> received nose MU?
>
> 4. Can anyone suggest an HO part number for the standard Q F-Unit
> spark arrestors?
>
> 5. Anyone have any links or pointers to other shots of Q F-units (not
> C&S or FW&D) running nose first but trailing in a consist?
>
> Tom Mack
> Cincinnati, OH
>
>
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