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Was the F-7A at 1500 h.p. basically the same machine as the GP-7 road switcher minus the step ladders and platform?
Why did F units have bi-directional roof horns if they weren't used as road switchers? This has always seemed strange to me considering that even diesel switchers like the EMD SWs had just one forward-facing horn.
[quote user="wjstix"] Well the CNW's "400" last ran in 1963, so I'm sure that slogan wasn't applied after that. It may have not been added to new engines or repaints for a while before that though...seems to me the M-St.L units that got repainted in 1960-61 didn't have the slogans(??) The striping seems to have kinda been phased out. Some had a simplified striping into the seventies...it only had one or two stripes coming down from the top, kinda like chevrons
For me, 'Classic' always brings up images of 1950s, early 60s passenger trains with F units where steam is slowly going the way of the dinosaur. It is just not the same seeing F unit diesels on freight train photos from say the 1970s in comparison. I have always thought of the steam era as just that, or more like 'old time railroading'. A play with words perhaps. Also for me classic railroading also personifies an era when trains were more in the public imagination than today. It
What year/years did the Chicago and North Western stop using the green stripes and '400 route' slogans on their diesels? Also what was more common on CNW trains during the 1950s, bay window cabooses or the old wood ones?
Well then there is also just the opposite. I think I read that the Northern Pacific had a rule to run all their diesels short-hood forward on the road including early diesels like Alco RS3s. I bet many engineers coming out of the steam era preferred long-hood foward just out of habit and for safety.
On a similar note I have to say that I appreciate the layout features in Model Railroader of non-Americans who model a U.S. road. There are some really interesting layouts done by non-U.S. modelers that have been in the magazine.
Recently I was comparing FTs to the later F7s and noticed something I never even paid attention to before. The original FTs had a nice, one-piece side window while later F units had a divided, two-windows. Anyone know why the later F units had the little divided side window? You would think the engineers would've liked one big side window instead.
This is for N scale, say a Bachmann 2-8-0, but I guess HO steam locos apply also. Can you paint (weathering) side rods and the outside wheel rims for steam loco models? Can you even paint the whole wheels? What is the best modeling paint color to use for a weathered/blackish look?
How do today's railroads turn diesels around? Do they still use old roundhouses and wyes for this?