Hello all ;
Here's a cab ride that must be getting sorta rare this days, in a classic road switcher unit. It's not top quality but shows how it used to be, with the usual smoke signature
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My God, there's a lot more room in the cab, and wider windows over the long hood, on the broad gauge!
RSCTwooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Overmod My God, there's a lot more room in the cab, and wider windows over the long hood, on the broad gauge! RSCTwooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I belive the cab is not so different from a standard gauge unit. The only concessions to the broader gauge are the 'special' Commonwealth trucks, and off course a different speedometer, wich is graded in Kilometres per hour rather than Mph. Maybe when the unit was reengined with a 251 in the seventies, some equipment was removed. I dunno why, but I alwways thought these units had a 'Ballrom' cab
Mario_vI believe the cab is not so different from a standard gauge unit.
Ooooooh, but it is!
My first cab ride was in a Jersey Central RSD unit, I believe either 1511 or 1514, when I was four (that would be April of 1961) and I vividly remember the proportions of the windows and layout of the equipment. Those little lookout windows over the long hood were not nearly as long as yours, and the space between the control stands, the brake valve, and the left side of the cab was much more limited.
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Overmod Mario_vI believe the cab is not so different from a standard gauge unit. Ooooooh, but it is! My first cab ride was in a Jersey Central RSD unit, I believe either 1511 or 1514, when I was four (that would be April of 1961) and I vividly remember the proportions of the windows and layout of the equipment. Those little lookout windows over the long hood were not nearly as long as yours, and the space between the control stands, the brake valve, and the left side of the cab was much more limited. RME
Maybe these units were originally like the ones you speak. Since they went to a heavy rebuilt program in the seventies, wich included reengining with a 251, maybe then they were modified. All I know is that the only 'adaptadtions' Alco did were the trucks being different (I'll get a photo as soon as I dig my 'digital' crate). Ah, a little detail I forgot. These units aren't RS's, but RSC's, and the filmed loco still operates in track contractor service
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