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Snippy


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BTW, those SOUTHERN bitches would fly. They would throw you back in your seat if you knew how to work the load meter and turbo with some throttle manipulation. Wouldn't stop, but they would fly.

The ones from the Red Team were slow loading but they had brakes. That a throat gagging acrid piss smell from the urinal that you could wash your hands in.



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BN/BNSF had shitloads of 30s, quite a few still running around, with any number of 'em converted ta GP-39 standards. Some with larger cabs, with proper windows all 'round.

But some still with original cabs...all chopped noses though! Five roads contributed theirs ta 2LARRCO. BN had 'em from GN/NP/CB&Q/Frisco. Santa Fe brought a few hundred ta the party from 1995 on. Loads of 'em!


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steam300 wrote:

pardon me for being train ignorant, but what was the purpose behind the high noses?

 They all started out that way but only the Red Team and the Green Team stuck with it almost to the end.  The Red Team bought some low-nosed power in, oh, I don't know, 1980, maybe.



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The first N&W short hood was 6073 from early 1975.

The agreement and arbitration award, *cy*, on the 6000-6072 right stand LHF configuration. The award that 'we' lost by winning.



-- Edited by Snippy on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 09:42:47 PM

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Uke wrote:

BN/BNSF had shitloads of 30s, quite a few still running around, with any number of 'em converted ta GP-39 standards. Some with larger cabs, with proper windows all 'round.

But some still with original cabs...all chopped noses though! Five roads contributed theirs ta 2LARRCO. BN had 'em from GN/NP/CB&Q/Frisco. Santa Fe brought a few hundred ta the party from 1995 on. Loads of 'em!

 FRISCO never owned a GP30. 



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They leased 'em?

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That part of BN's buyout, or marriage ta the Frisco brought some strange shit to BN... Can't remember what all, but lotsa Geeps! Shortly after that, apprentices were furloughed at most BN shops. Ended up working a section job through summer-fall '80, then went to Alliance ta finish up!

Some of Frisco's junk found their way ta Nebraska tu! Some GEunkers, and a few EMDs. Alliance was a GE shop though. Not much use for Geeps there!

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I remember the powerful sounds the GP-30's made...sort of my
introduction to "turbo-charged horsepower". 3 of them together
in consist would give those bigger horsepower sounds. Oh man
the GP30 is so much my time in railroad history. Think it will be
quite a while before the last GP30 cant run again.

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Snippy wrote:

They leased 'em?

 NNNNNOOOOOOO!! Never Rostered a GP30, not a single specimen, owned, leased, or Parts.

http://condrenrails.com/Frisco/Frisco_Diesels.htm

http://www.american-rails.com/the-frisco.html

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/modelListRR.aspx?id=SLSF

 



-- Edited by Calvin on Wednesday 16th of April 2014 08:12:28 AM

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The rolling museum that was a the WC had a number of GP30's, both ex CNW and Soo Line. The Soo Liners rode on ALCO trucks and rode like hell but could pull. The 700 and 703 were the last ones still in white and red. The 703 had a beautiful soundi g brass bell that was too big to fit in my grip. Hot water heat that worked really well in July. Worn out, filthy, the 700 went to the museum in Duluth and is operable. The 703 is in a wannabe train museum at the old depot in Colfax, WI. I believe one of the repainted 700's is in Green Bay.

It's kinda disturbing to see units I used to run in regular service inmuseums now.

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If the BN dint rebuild a bunch of GP-30's and GP-35's 20 years ago
we wouldnt be see any around today. I havent been trackside enough
the past year to see how many GP-30 rebuilds are still part of the mix.
GPNW always one of the last hang-outs for a locomotive model that
will be extinct soon.

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CSXT has 61 each GP30 Slugs. They will last forever, whats better than getting the performance of a GP-38 out of a carbody load of concrete (under 23mph).



-- Edited by Calvin on Thursday 17th of April 2014 08:40:15 AM

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