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Re: Help from the train experts ...
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:22:35 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
Strangely, these look like "full-height" units...I say it's
odd only because I've only seen this one other time, in Edmonton,
and the CN units were between 1/2 and 2/3 as tall as normal units.
It seemed like you could put them in front of a normal locomotive,
and the engineer could see over it.
I only found one picture of the CN version, after an evening
of web searching, but that was on the other conputer and I don't
have the URL with me. (I have some short glimpses on a videotape
from our vacation this year, but I haven't mastered getting the
images off the tape and into the computer...yet.)
So, are the ATSF units 'full-height'? How about the CN units?
(Am I misremembering?) Would the term 'slug' apply to either
style, regardless of height?
I used MSN search, and looked for 'CN railroad slugs', and the
results were largely worthwhile to look at. :-)
-Z- frenezulo@baylug.org
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| (...) I'm not sure what CN units you're referring to. (...) No. If they're cut down, they're definitely slugs. Slugs don't need the prime mover, radiator, blowers, dynamic brake vents and cooling fans, etc., since they've been castrated. This GP60B (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Help from the train experts ...
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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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