Re: [CBQ] Demonstrator Locos

["qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Thanks for the info ! All the more reason to hope for a photo of this lash up to appear.

By the way the Fox River branch was one of the last bastions for the Q's SD-24s on #11811-12 in the 1970s. They worked in 4 and 5 unit sets. 

Leo Phillipp

On May 14, 2015, at 10:10 PM, Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

The 5579 was most likely EMDX 5579, their SD24 demonstrator (EMD order #5579, EMD serial #24701, blt 7/58) which was later sold to the UP as their 448.

msw

largofl

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:46 PM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

There is a photo of the J 913 and 3 sisters working they're way west on trk 1 in the east yard in one of either the Spoors Q books or Four ways west.

I have the Eola rdhse loco assng book of 1955-58 in my collection. It shows each and every loco moving in and out of the rdhse by day and job.

>From August 11-18 the Fox River had 2 geeps and the 5579 and 909 each day. When I showed this to long time switchman,foreman,brkmn and Condr Wade Gorman he recalled the Fox tried the center cabs for a short time to get over Wedron Hill. The 900 series were the J center cabs.
This number series was not in use on the Q in 58 nor was the 5500 series. But I have no idea what the 5579 was or where from.

Wouldn't it be a real treat to fin a photo of this lash up out on the branch ?

Leo Phillipp

> On May 14, 2015, at 7:02 PM, Scott Walker js.ygrps@runbox.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> My question is when at Eola. I was in high school in Barrington in the
> early sixties, and the daily local from the J would deliver their cars
> to the CNW interchange yard, which today is the commuter train storage
> yard. As of that time, each of the center cabs had been re-engined with
> 2-1200 hp EMD 567's with the change out to the EMD hoods, tapered from
> the top of the cab roof to the original height of the original ends of
> the locos. An interesting locomotive, especially in the orange and green
> of that time. The loco set on the J for the local was the BLH reengined
> plus an SW switcher making about 3000HP for the set, an
> ant-and-grasshopper act.
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> Scott Walker
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>> On 5/14/2015 9:14 AM, qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:
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>> We have documentary evidence of the Q trying out the E.J.&E. center cabs
>> on the Fox River Wayfreight out,of Eola.
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>> The center cabs were routinely seen at Eola where the "J" interchanged
>> with the Q. They would come down into the east yard.
>>
>> Leo Phillipp
>>
>>
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