How many DT&I units received a full orange nosebell?
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Bump. Also, how rare would one be?
Max:
As I recall the DT&I Diesel locomotives were painted all orange on their bodies.
Are you asking if they had an orange painted nose bell similar to what I've seen pictured on the C&NW suburban units? I'm not sue that the question was definitive enough?
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Found a couple of websites with photo's of DT&I Diesels.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=DTI Good collection of photos of their roster engines.
Most seem to have the sil;ver nose bell you mentioned. They apparently did not put nose bells on their short nosed engines.
This link has a mix of DT&I RR photos and other pictures:
http://www.bing.com/images/
This site shows Unit 6217 with an orange nose bell:
Sort of looks like they had no method to application of the orange bell to their equipment. Kind of interesting, I just learned that the AnnArbor was owned by the DT&IRR. ( they did not seem to use the nose bell thing on their equipment, but painted their power that orange color(?).
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No, the majority of the DT&I diesels had silver nosebells just like the CNW. Some however received fully orange ones when they were repainted. Im curious how many did/ how rare finding one today would be.
Were these nosebells any different than the standard crossing gong?
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Yes, the backings were different and they used different mechanisms.
No one here knows anything about nosebells?
Guess not.
I'm just looking through the first photo roster page of DTI engines I found (RRpicture archives). Only one two so far I found with an all-orange nosebell: 417 & 226. Many of the others were silver with just the top lip being orange. Lots of others were rusty. That silver paint on them did not hold up well...
Well i will give you guys another go at it! Here she is! Click to enlarge.
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Hey! Max (Coborn35) :
How about nose bells on UNION PACIFIC?
Zardoz: Has contributed some photos from flickr of UP550 woth a nose bell!
Looks kind like a siler bell on that armour yellow nose? (nee: CNW)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim53171/5638455302/lightbox/
linked from this THREAD:
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/190543.aspx?PageIndex=2
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Wow! I know this thread is old, but I just ran acrossed it via a Google search, and now I am wondering whatever happened to this bell? Do you still have it? Wanna sell it? ;) How about selling a paint chip from it? ;)
Patrick
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