A former British Columbia Railway unit, BCOL 4618. It was delivered to the museum's spur on the afternoon of Friday, September 22. This one was repainted into the modern CN scheme around 2010-2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHeVVEE05bA
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Nice...but you know you're getting old when locomotives you remember as being "modern" are relegated to museum status. It's great that these locomotives are preserved..one day they will be looked upon as we look upon steam locomotives.
I ran a locomotive older than that last weekend.
Note that the loco has the "Draper Taper."
At least some of them are being preserved - better than razor blades.
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tree68 I ran a locomotive older than that last weekend. Note that the loco has the "Draper Taper." At least some of them are being preserved - better than razor blades.
I agree, and I thought the Draper Taper would eventually become mainstream..seemed like a good idea.
Just Lovely!
Thank You for the information.
Looks ready to go out and pull Tonnage.
News Wire article:
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/canadian-national-donates-draper-taper-unit-to-museum/
Ulrich Nice...but you know you're getting old when locomotives you remember as being "modern" are relegated to museum status. It's great that these locomotives are preserved..one day they will be looked upon as we look upon steam locomotives.
I can remember when GP7's/GP9's were just about everywhere. A few years ago, my adult son shot a Cargill SD9 that he saw being shipped on BNSF. I congratulated him on his catch of what is now a rare model.
Time marches on - the first AC traction diesel-electrics are approaching 30 years old as we speak.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Locomotive preservation is largely an unpaid labor of love... a few diehards who are willing to give freely of their time and effort. Without them we would have next to nothing..
UlrichLocomotive preservation is largely an unpaid labor of love... a few diehards who are willing to give freely of their time and effort. Without them we would have next to nothing..
And the Fs and steam engines were from a time where the RRs employed every third person and they loved the industry.
Now there's a lot fewer of us. And most of us have non-RR hobbies to pass whatever little free time we get.
Or at least that's my opinion.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
Nice to see a Canadian cowl ending up in a musuem. With this recent news along with the donation of a C40-8W a few weeks ago, has anyone saved a standard C40-8 yet?
As GE's premier product when the competitive pendulum swung towards them on the eve of the widecab era, that model seems particularly historic. It marks the end of EMD's traditional dominance in North America and the beginning of an era that continues to this day to be dominated by GE designs.
"Don't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone..."
Joni Mitchell
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