| Posted by beano on April 2, 2017 | |
Great photo Tom. A real descriptive photo and angle that's almost 3-D. Pretty cool paint job to. I notice the bell is on the long end and so is the snow plow, I'm curious as is this the way they run those units long end forward no matter what the weather or conditions, and did they have plows on both ends of those GP-9 s. ?Thanks for sharing your photos with us trained nuts. We must have the fervor. I blame it on dad,but we had fun doing it. We would go to Sears n Roebucks and walk across a old wooden pedestrian bridge and watch trains switching and also Lake Union on the southside to a old St. Vincents de Paul the tracks ran right by them and King St. and Union Stations trains galore GN. SP$S NP UP an the M.Road in Seattle. Their was so much variety before the mergers. The sight of those NP F units and GN diesels and SP& S locos exiting the long tunnel under the city with smoke swirling was pretty awesome on a hot day or any day hanging out with my dad watching trains down on Jackson St. We would always look to see if we could spot a hobo catching a ride and wave to him.I remember seeing some NP units with those tubes on top to.
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| Posted by trip66 on April 3, 2017 | |
As for the bell and plow on the long hood, the CV is sort of forgotten as being one of the railroads to run their locomotives long-hood-forward or "Southern style" like the Southern and Norfolk & Western. Almost every photo I see of the CV has their engines running this way.
However, I believe the GP9 and GP7 had a lot of models built for long hood forward operation, it was the Southern and N & W that began to order their second generation locos with high hoods and long hood forward cab controls that no other railroad ordered. The CV would eventually get some second gen locos, GP38s that were second hand from GTW, so they had regular noses and cab forward operation.
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