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Re: Help from the train experts ...
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:42:49 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Walsh writes:
> In my wanderings in search of suitable pictures, I found this:
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> HTTP://ARCHIVE.TRAINPIX.COM/ATSF/EMDORIG/GP60B/331.HTM
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> What do you call this? It is a locomotive that doesn't have a cab. For
> some reason the term "slug" comes to my memory but I don't know if it is
> correct.
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
> http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
> http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
Mike,
The locomotive you are describing is an EMD GP60B (B as in booster). 23 of
these were built by GM between July and September of 1991. With a 710G prime
mover, they develop 3,800 HP. Santa Fe was the only railroad to purchase the
cabless booster version of this model. Like Larry had said earlier,
railroads do not purchase boosters because of poor utilisation. (As a
footnote, EMD was transferring locomotive production away from La Grange to
Ontario, Canada at the time these locomotives were produced.) -Harvey
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| In my wanderings in search of suitable pictures, I found this: HTTP://ARCHIVE.TRAIN...0B/331.HTM What do you call this? It is a locomotive that doesn't have a cab. For some reason the term "slug" comes to my memory but I don't know if it is correct. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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