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RF&P E-8 question

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RF&P E-8 question
Posted by ndbprr on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 1:58 PM
In the late 50's when the GG1's had a problem with some very unusual snow for Philadelphia some RF&P and ACL E units made it all the way to Philadelphia on the PRR. Pictures show the RF&P E-8's with a forward facing five tome chime on the engineers side of the cab and a forward facing single horn on the firemans side. WHY????
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Posted by emdgp92 on Monday, November 14, 2005 3:51 PM
I'm not sure why that was done. In fact, all of the RF&P E units seem to have that arrangement, at least that's what I saw over on http://www.rr-fallenflags.com.

The ACL units have the same arrangement as well:

http://rr-fallenflags.org/acl/acl548awc.jpg
http://rr-fallenflags.org/acl/acl536awc.jpg



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Posted by jimrice4449 on Monday, November 14, 2005 11:27 PM
Just a guess. Forward facing horn plugs w/ snow, no noise. Rearward facing horn goes beep.

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