Re: [CBQ] Passenger Es in freight service

["Bill Belsher" <billyben@att.net>]

I know that the C&S and the Denver tried using their E units for freight service over the "Joint Line" between Denver and Pueblo and it was a dismal failure.  The were soon traded in for C&S SD40s.  Should have stuck them on the Joint lines between Dallas and Houston here in Texas.  Probably would have fared better.  Also they did not change the gearing to freight gearing.  I read that a lot of traction motors and generators got fried on the Palmer Lake grade.

Bill

Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver in N scale.

On Friday, October 8, 2021, 05:51:07 PM CDT, Stephen Levine via groups.io <sjl_prodigynet=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

How often did the Burlington use passenger E units in freight service? I remember seeing one such occurrence in 1966 or 1967 in Illinois from a DZ dome.  The train the two units pulled consisted of farm equipment on flat cars, so it was probably not too heavy

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