Re: [CBQ] Shovelnose question

["Don Bowen" <don.bowen@earthlink.net>]

On 6/4/2020 8:32 PM, Ed Pavlovic wrote:

Thanks to those that answered my question about the shovelnoses, from the wreck photos that Charlie posted it doesn’t look like it was very substantial construction at all.

I have been trying to find the reference.  Somewhere along the line I read that the operating unions had contract provisions that limited the shovelnose style front ends as being too dangerous.  Grade crossing accidents were becoming all too common with the increase in heavier highway traffic.  Also realize that the object of the shot welded body was weight reduction, there was only a single unreliable 600 HP diesel pulling.  The mechanical department paper on the Winton engine makes interesting reading and as does the SAE paper on the development of the 567.  The 567 paper starts by saying he will not go into the problems with the 201 other to say they had no problems with the dip stick.

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Don Bowen       --AD0NB--

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