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[quote user="7j43k"]The UP rarely ran "funny" passenger loco consists. Meaning things like AAA. Or an ABA with the trailing unit turned. Or AAB.[/quote] or ABBBB (ski trains).  MEC (Maine Central) ran F3A-F3B-GP7-GP7-F3A consists with F3A-GP7 pusher over their Mountain Subdivision in NH and w/o pusher on long potato trains from Bangor to Portland. With the FT drawbar problem, a coupler was an option or modification that could be made to the FTAB set.  Boston and Maine didnt need ABBA sets for their typical freight run.  They solved this problem by ordering single FTAs (EMD changed this order to F2As when FT production ceased) to make FTA-B-F2A sets to break up the FT ABBA sets that BM was running during the war years (was infact the plan all along, however they (BM) was required to order standard sets by WPB).
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