Re: [CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher

["norm1garand via groups.io" <norm1garand=yahoo.com@groups.io>]

The GM&O 901-class SD40's, from 1966, along with the 1969 built, 701-class GP38's, and 1971 built, 721-class, GP38AC's all had poling pockets.  The 1964 and 1965 built 601-class GP35's also had the poling pockets.

Norm Fenske

On Monday, October 27, 2025 at 04:06:19 PM CDT, William Hirt via groups.io <whirt=fastmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

Reportedly NKP GP35 910 Built in June 1964 was the last factory
delivered locomotive with poling pockets.

My part was pestering Craig Walker of Rapido for Phase I 44 tonners and
CB&Q 9103 when the Rapido road show visited the main train shop in town
in March 2024.

Bill Hirt

On 10/27/2025 2:38 PM, Jonathan Harris via groups.io wrote:
> Got mine a couple weeks ago, and yes it's a beautiful model and a
> much-needed and appreciated addition to the HO CB&Q roster.
> As for the practice of poling, well . . . it may have been banned in
> the '60s, but such bans were honored in the breach, as I saw it done
> on a shortline in 1967.  My hunch is that Class I railroad crews kept
> doing it too sometimes, when they thought they could get away with it.
> Also during the (earlier part of the) 1960s, I tried it out on our
> high-school model railroad club, using an appropriately shortened
> round toothpick. It may have been illegal, but it worked great.
>

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