Re: [CBQ] Builder in 56

["little-q@att.net" <trains@davidstreeter.net>]

I acquired the train from the estate of a deceased friend. The box is labeled "Empire Builder summer 1956" or something to that effect. I suppose I should do some research on it anyway, but that's the base point I'm working from.

He assembled the train from a variety of sources, some brass, some Brass Car Sides, some plastic, and painted them all himself. He also did an ABBA set of Athearn Fs in GN, but he didn't put DCC in them, whereas I have a fleet of BLI Burlington Es with DCC (and sound; the first thing I do is lower the volume to a tolerable level) to go with my BLI CZ. I don't have a layout at home, and the two clubs I might join both use DCC, so I need it.

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David Streeter

On 3/22/2021 6:09 PM, Richard Gortowski via groups.io wrote:

If you are really feeling ambitious, you can splice an EA (with the "beauty" treatment) or an EA-B unit between two E units.  Per Mike Spoor's CB&Q in Color Vol 1:  "After the arrival of the E-7s and E-8s in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the EA-Bs were normally found spliced between two of the larger EMD locomotives.  Beginning in 1953, "Diesel Passenger Power Pool #3" called for two 2,250 hp E-8As and one 1200 hp EA-B to be assigned to the EMPIRE BUILDER."  Maybe move up your era a little?

Rich G.

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From: Patrick Egan <padraice38@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Builder in 56

I believe in the late spring of 55, it was 3, most likely 1 forward.

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