An "F-Unit"?After drooling over the SC, one might look beyond?http://condrenrails.com/GTW/GTW-78-Battle-Creek-MI-4-18-63.jpg
GTW 7800, later GTW 78http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/gtw7800.jpgNote here, number changed to just 78, leaving off zeros, and making '78' off set to left on front below rad.http://www.railarchive.net/vintagediesel/images/gtw78-8318.jpg
Thank You.
More F3s. w/ a Santa Fe Helper.https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/photo-toronto-train-canadian-national-steam-engine-4101-and-diesel-9003-pulling-freight.jpgThe Helper would be cut off @ the top of the grade, and the two Fs would take the train thru.The Helper would run back down lite as a 'Train' displaying Markers, and running 'Extra' as per White Flags and illuminated Class Lites level w/headlite.The markers for traveling in reverse can be seen on pilot beam, others on top rear corners of tender tank when traveling forwards. Marker = 3 Green 1 Red lenses.Here Class Lite = 2 White ( Clear ) lenses @ 90 degrees.In reverse at nite, the Smoke box end of engine would display two white lights above, for 'Extra', two red on pilot beam for 'Rear of Train', Headlight extinguished.Tender would have it's Road headlight Illuminated, in reverse.When NOT running as a Train, the Markers ( electric ) were covered w/ round tin canisters visible under smoke box. Other canisters on tender tank.On top of valve chamber is a hand valve which was to be left open when engine tied up to vent steam if throttle leaked.Thank You.
CN F3 9005 was wrecked and parts used in a kitbashed GP7 4824
gmpullman PS, I don't recall ever seeing the water filler in the body-side like that. I wonder how many FP-7s (or all of them?) were so-fitted? Ed
PS, I don't recall ever seeing the water filler in the body-side like that. I wonder how many FP-7s (or all of them?) were so-fitted?
Ed
Virtually all of them..............
Sheldon
The F unit is sharp allright, but the roadway ramp in the background is what caught my eye! I need to make just such a ramp on my layout and that photo will be a great reference.
Not worth starting a new thread over?
Servicing EMD Demo Set, Chapleau, Ont. 1949. CPR.http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YcBsPmM2m4o/UST13hdJrqI/AAAAAAAAIiM/KULa_TeBZlo/s1600/first-diesel-1949.jpg
More EMD/GMD Info.http://trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/GMD/history.htm
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I love these old things:
I think the Milwaukee used this color scheme on F3s, but these are generic old Athearn F7 shells. I've got these 3 A units (2 powered, 1 dummy) and a dummy B unit as well. These are mostly from the 1950s. I picked up some dress-up kits to add window and porthole glass and grabs, and I got a decal sheet to replace the old ones that had fallen off.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I also like the Texas & Pacific Passenger F7's in Mopac Blue/Cream with a silver eagle on the nose displaying the red T&P rhombus logo.
My favorite paint schemes used on F units are (in order of favor) the Rock Island Rocket scheme (for their passenger F´s), Texas & Pacific Eagle scheme (for their passenger F´s), the Santa Fe Warbonnet scheme, the Milwaukee Road 1952 scheme, the earliest scheme of the Chespaeake & Ohio and the Northern Pacific Pine Tree scheme.
Maroon and Gold, the B&M color scheme before McGuinnis.
And MBTA Purple Line.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Don't forget the gorgeous KCS red-black-yellow units and the neat Reading black & green.
But I have to say my favorite is the original B&O scheme.
Roger Huber
Heartland Division CB&Q My vote: .... Burlington
My vote: .... Burlington
Probably the blue and yellow Santa Fe with CN a close second
You're all wrong...
Gotta be the MoPac Eagles!!!
(and me a WP guy)
WP Lives
Night Train, Fun thread!
The paint scheme for my Kato HO F9 was heavily influenced by Milwaukee Road colors. Learning of the Seattle & North Coast Railroad's use of F7s during the early 80s added plausibility to keeping the F9 in service on my freelanced early-1980s shortline ISL with carfloat operations.
Thanks and regards, Peter
My picks would be the Sante Fe Warbonnets and the Wabash Blue Birds.
Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
"Oooh...ahhhh...that's how this all starts...but then there's running...and screaming..."
That's one of the best !!!!
I gotta go with a rare one here, the original Bessemer & Lake Erie units with the black nose wings & rounded end side bands over the orange body. Of course, they look specially great when set as ABBA. THAT is the only way to put 6000 horsepower on the point. Four 567's chanting their way along the railroad . . . awesome!
Hi, #1 would be the true GM paint sceme, Boston & Maine, and # 2, NYC Lightning Stripe. H. Graves
My favorite is the black and red Rock Island "Rock Freight" scheme.
Water Level Route,
I also prefer SP's "Black Widow" over "Bloody Nose".
E-L man tom tstage I agree, Tom... The above Stewart Erie FT A-B I purchased earlier on before settling on the NYC. I really like the contrast of the yellow against the black, as well as the herald on the nose. Ultimately, I'd like to incorporate it into a future layout, where the Erie crossed the NYC. Tom I recently acquired an A-B set of F3's, Athearn Genesis w/ sound in the Erie paint scheme. Haven't had much of a chance to run them as I just moved and my layout is in pieces right now. My freelanced layout is themed on a fictional short line in northwest Ohio which interchanges cars with the Chessie and the Erie Lackawanna in the 1970s. Many of the EL's motive power still had the pre-merger liveries, even up to the Conrail takeover, especially on older units like the F's. Tom and Tom: I certainly can't argue with that elegant Erie scheme, but I really prefer the somewhat later version with more yellow on nose and cab roof. I used to see sets of matched FA's or F's in ABBA (occasionally ABA) configuration, batting through Akron on the Erie mainline before the EL merger. Back then, the units were always clean and the operation was impressive. The road's financial difficulties weren't apparent. ACY Tom
tstage I agree, Tom... The above Stewart Erie FT A-B I purchased earlier on before settling on the NYC. I really like the contrast of the yellow against the black, as well as the herald on the nose. Ultimately, I'd like to incorporate it into a future layout, where the Erie crossed the NYC. Tom
I agree, Tom...
The above Stewart Erie FT A-B I purchased earlier on before settling on the NYC. I really like the contrast of the yellow against the black, as well as the herald on the nose. Ultimately, I'd like to incorporate it into a future layout, where the Erie crossed the NYC.
Tom
I recently acquired an A-B set of F3's, Athearn Genesis w/ sound in the Erie paint scheme. Haven't had much of a chance to run them as I just moved and my layout is in pieces right now. My freelanced layout is themed on a fictional short line in northwest Ohio which interchanges cars with the Chessie and the Erie Lackawanna in the 1970s. Many of the EL's motive power still had the pre-merger liveries, even up to the Conrail takeover, especially on older units like the F's.
Tom and Tom:
I certainly can't argue with that elegant Erie scheme, but I really prefer the somewhat later version with more yellow on nose and cab roof. I used to see sets of matched FA's or F's in ABBA (occasionally ABA) configuration, batting through Akron on the Erie mainline before the EL merger. Back then, the units were always clean and the operation was impressive. The road's financial difficulties weren't apparent.
ACY Tom
For me the top 3 is the Southern Railway black that has been replicated by the office units of Norfolk Southern,
Atlantic Coast Line's purple and silver,
and a toss up between some of the B&O F units that acquired this paint job in service
and the Southern Pacific Black Widows
I forgot Monon Fs, right up their with NYC Lightning stripes. Plus the Monon had a catchy song.
As I posted on the favorite GP thread being a fan of the ACR I am rather partial to:
richhotrain...are your trying to raise the BAR?
Maybe. The colours are good together, but the top of the nose needs something. As it is, it puts me in mind of a big grey fish with its mouth open (a good-looking one, mind you). Even some anti-glare flat black on the top of the nose might help, since it looks to me that they ran out of blue.I definitely would have given it a black roof, though, and maybe the nose top and windshield area in blue, with the curve of the gold striping, just aft of the number boards, mirrored to provide a border. Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder, and I find it quite nice, but a bit unfinished-looking.
Wayne
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-SCALE-ATHEARN-GENESIS-BANGOR-AROOSTOOK-FREIGHT-F-3A-PHASE-2-LOCOMOTIVE-SET-/322210731896?hash=item4b05419778:g:02cAAOSwRgJXkPkG
The photos in this listing do not do them justice. I have the same set and they are gorgeous.
Stewart did them also, but I think the Athearn models look much better.
50 comments about Athearn light bulbs soon to follow ....