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Posted by rrnut282 on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 11:35 AM
That's different. Maybe it's an experiment with the decaling of the engine number. IIRC, GFS was a component of SOU before the merger, like CNO&TP and certain locomotives still use those reporting marks. Funny, I haven't seen any NKP, WAB N&W, LE&W reporting marks on NS locos.
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Monday, November 1, 2004 7:44 PM
Hmm, never seen that before.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 1, 2004 7:01 PM
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=14813

MT6 973 also has a patch like this.
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Posted by oskar on Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:41 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

What do you mean by patched ?
Randy



on one side it's patched dose any one know what color GFS was




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Posted by Randy Stahl on Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:06 PM
What do you mean by patched ?
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Posted by oskar on Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:21 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

What...slow down...talk streight, then somebody may be able to answer ya.


what I ment was dose any one know why 6650 is patched




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Posted by UPTRAIN on Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:28 AM
What...slow down...talk streight, then somebody may be able to answer ya.

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NS 6650
Posted by oskar on Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:55 AM
I have seen this a couple times then I saw this yesterday on 191NS 6650 was pached like a CR. is the paint falling off 6650 are why was it pached its a ex GFS or something like that.



any help needed



kevin

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