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Published: 2011-09-16 01:42:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 668; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 30
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9/14/11: Out of the south end of Corwith; BNSF 2956 (ATSF GP39-2 3702, blt 4/80) makes a GP60B sandwich with an EMDX GP38-2.Related content
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I've never understood the rationale behind cabless road switcher units like this. An EMD F7B I can understand. It's a streamlined unit. A cabless trailing unit looks good. But a cabless GP60? Or any other road switcher, for that matter....
The entire idea of the road switcher concept was to offer the loco crew a decent view of the tracks in either direction regardless of which direction the loco happened to be going. I'm pretty sure that neither EMD nor GE offered their units as cabless units, rather the railroads themselves ordered them that way.
IMHO, having a cab in every unit makes for easier unit assignments. Any unit can be assigned to any train, even solo.
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Wow! Slugages! Look at that giant smoke stack 2956 HAS! WOW!
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I know! Railroads in Chicago! My education!
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It is a book in itself just Chicago railroading alone buddy!
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I wish publishers cared about that stuff!
And I wasn't so damn overwhelmed by life and job and wife and son and shit!
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LOL!! That would be cool about the publishers!
Oh come on, EP! You know you love all of that stuff! ESPECIALLY TRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A book of my pics...shit! I'm no Don Ball or Jim Boyd! But I would love it!!!!!
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LOL!!! I would love it too!!
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Oooh! Wild modern slugs! That's a neat capture
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Thank you very much! Actually they are cabless GP60s or GP60Bs...In England are cabless locos referred to as slugs? In the US slugs usually have prime movers removed but retain traction motors for increased tractive effort...
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You're most welcome!
And I think it might be a lost-in-translation moment, to be honest.
The Slugs' in the UK were a batch of Class 37s' with added ballest for greater adhesion.
The only cabless engines we had were the Class 13 Shunter pairs of A "Master" 08 and a cabless, permanently coupled "Slave". More details are here: [link]
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The only cabless locomotives in the UK were the three 13 class they were a pair of 08 class semi permanently coupled together with one cab removed.
[link]
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Cool looking units. In the US there were many cow and calf sets from the 40s-50s. Luckily I got shots of some before they were scrapped [link] They still use slugs for hump work though and the IHB has powerboosters (roadslugs) [link]
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The Cow and Calf you were looking to link: [link]
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Yes, it is. I felt that a link directly to the full size image would serve better than a link to a gallery of thumbnails. The Orange IHB slug appears at the top, the cow and calf is on the next page.
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You can't download the full image? I don't intend to deprive anyone of my pics! (Puzzled?)
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Why download when I can link. I'm trying to help fellow railfans who might not know what we know.
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I was quite shocked indeed, last thing I expected...
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How many were rolling by?
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They were parked there for a few minutes. They didn't go past where I got the shot. I think they were using headroom for switching at Corwith or heading into the diesel shop.
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I was just going about my merry way, minding my own business then this happened...
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Yeah somehow I dont believe you.... ill call u bass and you can fill in the second half...
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These things...they just happen...
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