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June 29, 2016
Hol - Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Q 168A delivered as one of a
three unit matched set of F7's, 168A, 168B and 168C, all originally connected
with draw bars rather than couplers? The A and C motors had cabs
and the B motor had no cab. Whereas I do not have an image of 168A, I do
have an image of its sibling 168C that I'm inserting and attaching. No
information came with the image, so if anyone can ID the roundhouse, I'd
appreciate knowing the location.
Thanks for sharing your memories of 168A as it worked out its last days out
of Lincoln in the BN. Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 6/29/2016 3:06:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner
included below]
Jogged my memory a bit (after all, this was 46 years ago!) and did a bit of
digging and here are two views of Q 168A in service on the BN. In May
1970, just over two months after the BN merger, my good friend Ken Crist
journeyed east from Denver to Lincoln to catch the GN and Q E7s that were then
running in freight service out of Lincoln, and also the 168A, since it was the
only Q F-unit to survive the merger. He got great shots of the E7s and
learned that the F-unit was working the Lincoln-Sioux City turn. So he
drove over to Ashland and followed the line all the way up to Sioux City,
arriving late in the evening to find the 168A and Q GP7 265 coupled and
sitting at the GN roundhouse, waiting to head back south to Lincoln with the
local freight. Unfortunately, they were to depart during the night, so
Ken had to be satisfied with a tight shot of the pair at the roundhouse, with
a renumbered former GN GP7, now BN 1527, on the next track, giving testimony
that it was indeed a post-merger photo. The 168A was pretty worn and
ratty by this time, but a month later it was far worse looking when I caught
up with it at the former Q 23rd St. roundhouse in Denver on a dreary, rainy
June afternoon. It had been turned on the turntable (I photographed that
scene, too) after coming in from Lincoln with a drag freight and was placed on
the point of a remarkable power consist to take a similar freight back
east. In the intervening month since Ken photographed the old F-unit,
the 168's nose herald had been peeled of and the BURLINGTON lettering on its
sides literally scratched off, leaving it with no ownership identification
anywhere in sight. Its builder's plates had also been removed -- no
doubt by a railfan -- but its F7 plates were still in place, as was its
anachronistic wagonwheel radio antenna. And the five-unit motive power
consist it headed was a real gem: Behind the 168A were two F7 B-units,
the first a leased D&RGW unit and the second a former GN unit in Omaha
orange and Pullman green. Next was an unrenumbered Q GP35 in Chinese
red, and last came a former GN high-nose GP20 in Big Sky Blue. I would
not have believed it if I had not seen and photographed it! And sadly,
that would be the last time I saw the 168A.
Hol
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Scott Manley
scott.manley@smsooland.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent:
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 1:49 PM
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] The last F unit
Found
this on the internet regarding 168A
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/259885/
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 11:22 AM
To:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] The last F
unit
Michael:
It operated several
times between Lincoln and Sioux City that I'm aware of.
Hol
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Michael Matalis mmatalis@sprynet.com
[CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 8:28
AM
To: Q
Subject: [CBQ] The last F unit
CB&Q F7A 168A made it to merger day, but did the BN
ever operate it? The 1971 Motive Power Annual seems to say so, there’s a photo
of it coupled to other power a couple months after the merger but I’m not sure
if this was for a train or if it was just being shuffled around in storage.
The fact that it was traded in to EMD a few months later without being
renumbered seems to indicate that it’s operational days on the BN were few if
any.
Thank you kindly,
Michael Matalis
Downers Grove
IL
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