Re: [CBQ] E7 9935B Question

[<jamessandrin@yahoo.com>]

Hi:  Included are some attachments of the Unit in Question.  The Q era shot is 
by Vince Porreca at Denver in the Summer of 1969 where the unit was awaiting 
its eastbound run on #10.  The clean 3/4 shot of the 9920 shows the unit as the 
only E7 to receive BN paint about a year later in August of 1970, again in 
Denver.  Dirty 9920 in near-broadside is from March 1971, a few weeks before 
the beginning of Amtrak and the demise of the E7 fleet. 

 I suspect that other than showing up in a Railway Age promotional piece, 
nothing extraordinary came of the experiment.  A diesel engine can run on 
practically anything  that is petroleum based and synthetic fuels were used 
extensively by the German Army's Panzer units just a few years before.  That 
is, until the RAF and Army Air Corps did their best to eliminate the sources of 
that fuel.
 

 I just thought that you might enjoy the images of the unit which ran until the 
end of that model's duration.
 Jim Sandrin