Re: [CBQ] GN F's and CB&Q Power on Freight in 1968

["Tom Mack via Groups.Io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 07:43 AM, Tom Mack wrote:
> There is a very interesting slide for sale on eBay right now of a freight train in St Paul led by a GN A-B-A F-unit set followed by a Q U28B and two Q GP40's. 
>
> Does anyone recognize the location? I am trying to figure out whether this train is headed east to Savanna and Chicago or west on the GN. My guess is that at this late date this may be a set of F's being traded in to EMD. If it is, however, it is very interesting to see them on the point! The fact that CB&Q GP40 621 is in the consist confirms that this was indeed shot in 1968 (or later) since the 600-series GP40's were built in February 1968.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 Leo Phillipp wrote:
     
       FWIW, the slide scene reminds me of White Pines state park just west of Oregon,IL and if my guess/hunch is right the train is eastbound. 

We now have more info on this train I posted about back in November 2018. A slide of this train leaving Daytons Bluff yard eastbound just showed up on eBay taken by the same photographer, Tom Smart (who I knew when I was a young railfan).

Here is the original slide from November 2018: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1968-Koda-Slide-CB-amp-Q-Burlington-Route-118-Action-w-GN-St-Paul-5U17-/392165228703?nma=true&si=0phcaohxUek8u0A9lFIB7Lu9CKg%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 

Here is the new slide of the same train from the front: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1968-Kodachrome-Slide-GN-Great-Northern-454-D-ABA-Action-w-CB-Q-A20/392293300164?hash=item5b5680b7c4:g:yNIAAOSwWKhc0v2S 

The lead unit is GN F7A 454D which was not traded in to EMD until 06-16-1970 on a BN order for SD45's! So the slide from last November of an A-B-A set of GN F's leading a CB&Q train was not trade-in F's after all. We also now know the identity of four of the six units on the train: GN F7A 454D, CB&Q U30B 154 (I had originally identified this as a U28B), CB&Q GP40 621, CB&Q GP40 188.

Pretty cool to see a GN F7A-B-A set on a Q train at that late date, and in the lead no less!

-- 
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH

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