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

["Don Winn" <donswinn@gmail.com>]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the info.  I appreciate the amount of detail you sent.  It looks like the evidence shows deliveries but no actual run-through power.  There goes an excuse to buy more locos!

Thanks

Don 

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:26 PM Tom Mack via Groups.Io <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 11:27 AM, Don Winn wrote:

I'm modelling 1966.   What GN power would be realistic by then?

Don,

There is a photo in Burlington Bulletin 48 on page 35 of a westbound freight in July 1966 with two GN U28B's being delivered. The train had CB&Q SD24 504 in the lead, followed by a Q GP35, a Q GP30, then the two GN U28B's.

There is a shot in the book Burlington Northern in Color Volume 1 - The Urge to Merge, of CB&Q Train 97 on Napervillle Curve with CB&Q GP30 961, GP30 963, Q GP20, Q SD24 513, and GN SDP40 325 in May 1966. GN SDP40 325 was being delivered from EMD and is in fresh paint and pointed forward in the consist.

Doubtless the other GN SDP40's and U28B's also came across on Q trains through Savanna and on up to St Paul. Probably just about all GN power being delivered from EMD or GE traveled over the Q, but the question arises as to whether it was in the locomotive consist or in the train. For example, in later years there is a photo of a GN U33C being delivered and it is the last unit in the consist, just like the SDP40 and the U28B's. Same goes for an NP U33C being delivered. But a photo on the GNgoat IO groups shows a GN F45 being delivered at Daytons Bluff yard and it is sandwiched between a SOO Line boxcar and a flat car - clearly not part of the locomotive consist.
 
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Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH

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