[CBQ] REPLY + NEW Question GP30 Antenna

["Latz Pat pter777opm@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Hello 2/Fellow Q's -

Does anyone know the over all height of its GP-30's including w/the air horns.

On the former NYC we had 2/restrict their use  on the eastern lines, viz., Bay View

which is on the west side of

Buffalo, NY, due to the place- ment of the locomotive's air

horn. Everytime (twice) we

tried running them into this district the air horns keep get-ting knocked off due 2/a clearence issue.

Which part of the Q's GP-30's extremenaties were the high-est, the antenna or the air horns?

This clearence issue was the primary reason why the diesel shop @ Elkhart, IN immediately turned them back 2/the Q on train symbol NYQ. Further, there was the challenge of excessive wheel slipage while in train service. This is why The

CENTRAL generally ran them in groups of 3/4 on light tonnage trains which required high speed operations.

Only had wish 4/these locos was 2/have The NYC 2/open their pocket books and adopt-ed the Lightening Strip paint scheme. Image, Chinese Red

& two-tone Lighting Strip run- ning together acrossed The Praires of Mid-America - WOW!

Ur considerations shall be of mutual value.

Fyi, Pat, aka Indiana Jones

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Rick rkeil6721@hotmail.com [CBQ]

<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Gordon

Thanks for the information.  Now the next question, anyone know who might either make one in HO scale or have a good diagram so one can be scratchbuilt?  A Google search turns up many results, but nothing that jumps out as the type the Q used.

Thanks

Ricky

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Gordon Smith kc2bw@optonline.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 8:57 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] GP30 Antenna

 

Quarter wave verticel...18 inches
tall...mounted on a raised bracket
with the coax routed thru a short
conduit into the roof.

Gordon

-------- Original Message --------
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> All
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> What type of antenna was used on
> GP30s?  Looking thru BB52 shows
> something in the middle of the
> cab roof that is not very tall.
>  Only 957 appears to have a
> firecracker and the others do not
> look like the Sinclair "jack
> knife" type.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Ricky Keil
>
> Papillion, NE
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>



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Posted by: Gordon Smith <kc2bw@optonline.net>
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