Canadian Pacific Control Cabs

[CaptainChuck]

How many CP Control Cabs (If any) are left in service? I'm talking about the rebuilt C424's and GP35's I believe? (1100 series and up)

 

Thanks!

Charles Hastings

Sitting in 16 inches of Snow in Maine 

[nsscot]

http://www.mountainrailway.com/CP%201100%20Page.htm

 

check this web site i think this will help you has up dates

 

Don

[tery84_trainee]

just wondering what a control cab was , it may sound like a silly question but over hear in aus ive never herd of it

[trolleyboy]

just wondering what a control cab was , it may sound like a silly question but over hear in aus ive never herd of it

 

CP rail took some old retired locomotive C424's a couple old GP35's removed the prime mover but left the train controls in them. They were tacked on the end of satck trains or other high priority unit trains, where time was money. They would run the train back using the control cab locomotive instead of breaking up the train or turning the head end power around to run the return train back. Kind of a real life "dummy" locomotive. from what I understood the CP train crews hated using them, as after the conversions they lost  alot of their creature comforts, like heaters etc.