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 Alex... I love that C424... I thought about having a couple of those be my startup power, as CPRail is pretty close to my railroad's Western terminus in WRJ, just a couple hundred miles South of Montreal.[:)]So Sawyer, you're planning freight push-pull operations? Are you planning on having the engine on the opposite end of the train than the caboose? You'd have to use radio signals to control the train, because freightcars don't have MU cables except for a couple spacer cars and such. That would mean installing radio relays every couple hundred feet in every tunnel along the route, and probably in tight areas as well.Or are you thinking the caboose connected to the locomotive? That wouldn't be too hard, although that leaves the question of where the crew sits in the caboose. The cupola is the most obvious choice, but you'd have to rebuild the interior of the car to add a control room in the cupola (which isn't a room, the crew basically climbs up a ladder to a high shelf where they sit). Also, you could just run the loco long-hood first, that would be easier, and those flared radiators would look great! Just think of the SOU SD45s and later, the NS C40-8s and all those...[8D] That's what my backstory is for the railroad plow I converted from a flatcar and caboose body for my railroad. Since the plow will be operating from one end of the railroad to the other in New England snow storms, the crew can't spend the whole time in an unheated shack on the plow controlling the locomotives by radioing back the engineer in the locomotive cab. The plow will need a locomotive equipped with HEP to power the lights and heat, but that's why they use SDP35 #1402, which had it's old steam generator replaced by an HEP unit. That unit is used on the buisness train as well as in regular freight service. The 6 axle trucks are a bonus when pushing heavy snow...
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