R. T. POTEET wrote:Looks like there were a few. With your info in mind I guess it would be feasible to buy a few Atlas U23Bs and B23-7s and use the AAR Type B trucks to repower some Atlas GP35s and GP40s and use their Blombergs to repower those U23Bs and B23-7s.
I'm pretty sure that Atlas made it's U23B's and B23-7's with the correct roadname-specific trucks under them. Proto 2000 put AAR type-B's under the appropriate GP18's & GP30's. Athearn may have done the same thing with the current GP35's.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
alfadawg01 wrote:Western Pacific U23B's, U30B's and Chesapeake & Ohio U23B's had Blomberg trucks. So did some of Seaboard Coast Line's U18B's and some Family Lines B23-7's as well as the ever-popular BQ23-7. Also Maine Central's U18B's. And SCL's U30B's, U33B's and U36B's.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet