While not simply an F3A-F7B consist, these photo references will help to show
some interesting consist mixes of F-units on freight trains on the Q in the mid
to late 1960's:
F3A-F3B 6/26/1965 Web photo at Aurora, IL
F3A-F3B 10/11/1965 Web photo at Eola, IL
F7A-F7B-GP30 8/12/1966 Spoor CB&Q Vol. 2 p. 40
GP20-F7A 9/1967 Holck Burlington Vol. 2 p. 66
F7A-F7B-GP20-F3A 5/30/1968 Spoor CB&Q Vol. 4 p. 79
F3A-GP7 1/1968 Spoor CB&Q Vol. 4 p. 95 (Mail Extra)
F3A-F3B-GP20 11/1968 Spoor CB&Q Vol. 4 p. 103
U25B-F3B-F3A BB 16 p. 37
I am sure there are other photos of intriguing F-Unit consists, but these are a
few I had noted in my "interesting Q Consists" spreadsheet. Even though the
pure A-B consists noted above were F3A-F3B lashups, I have to believe if you
want to run an F3A-F7B as a consist on a model railroad, for example, you can
rest assured you are definitely within prototypical bounds.
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Guy" <WeRbothCrazy@...> wrote:
>
> In the mid-1960's, quite common. The F3 and F7 sets were broken up, and
> motive power was "mixed-&-matched" as needed to get the appropriate HP/TE for
> each train. All of the F units were traded-in on newer power by 1968 or so.
>
> See the BRHS web site, which ahs info on CB&Q diesels:
>
> http://www.burlingtonroute.com/docs/rosters/droster_f3.html and
>
> http://www.burlingtonroute.com/docs/rosters/droster_f7.html
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "bdurham260" <bdurham260@> wrote:
> >
> > How common would it have been to see an F3a with an F7b pulling freight?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian Durham
> >
>
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