I looked up some GM&O SD-40 pictures I had, and Norm is correct. Attached is a photo of GM&O 902. What I found interesting the that the IC F-unit on the right ALSO has poling pockets. O don’t think I’ve ever seen an F-unit with them before! 
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Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] New Rapido GE 44 Ton Switcher
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Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:27:04 -0700 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. 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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