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Re: More obscure diesel variants (BoCo)
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:53:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell wrote:
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... when was the last time a Bo Co ran?...
James Powell
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Not a real one, but (in a shameless self-plug) my model of one won a prize at
Hull model railway show last November. Here it has red buffer beams, like the
illustrations of BoCo in the Awdry books:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=707083
For the official prize photo I changed them to green:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1149867
CoBos were always non-standard, not conforming to the maxim of making parts as
common as possible, to save money by having more identical parts and fewer types
of part. They weren’t very reliable either, often running double-headed, on a
container train called the “Condor”, which consisted of containers on Conflat
wagons (not ISO boxes like we have now!).
I have only B&W photos of a CoBo in the diesels book, and preservation photos
aren’t really representative of their livery in the 60s, since they must have
been repainted since then. What colour were the buffer beams?
Mark
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 | | Re: More obscure diesel variants (Was Re: BNSF new paint)
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| (...) Actually, I tend to think that it was more along the lines of the original 1950 plan- try everyting, and see what works and what doesn't work. Just because the FT was great in NA did not mean that it was going to be the best way to dieselize (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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