What am I?

[Gandy Dancer]

I was the last locomotive to officially carry the colors of my original home road after a mega-merger.  The unique thing is that I went to scrap in this fresh coat of paint, after only wearing it for about 3 months. And this was about 8 years after the merger!  My locomotive class also was the last to carry the original home road colors of one of the other parent companies involved in the mega-merger.

What loco am I?

You are Burlington Northern RS3 #4082.  I have a picture of you in bright canoe NP scheme sitting with 13 of your fellow Alcos in the Joseph Simon & Sons scrapyard in Tacoma Wachingon on Decmber 16, 1987.  The only thing that ruins it (other than the 4 digit number) is the BN stencled under the number.  

Source "Burlington Northern 1977-1980 Annual" Page 97. 

[andrechapelon]

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Southern Pacific E-9 #6051.

An E unit with B trucks?  That had to look worse than the D&RGW PB with Bs under it.

 

Nope, the A1A trucks used under the E units were designed by Martin Blomberg, the same guy who designed the Blomberg B truck for freight units.

http://utahrails.net/up/up-diesel-story-1934-1982-a.php 

Snippet from web site:

EMC's answer to these two problems was the model EA locomotive, introduced in May 1937, with six cab units and six booster units being supplied to B&O, and the E1 locomotive introduced in June 1937. (The model designation "E" stemmed from the original powering at Eighteen-hundred horsepower.) Eight E1As and three E1Bs were delivered to Santa Fe. These two designs were streamlined, and both were equipped with EMC's new three-axle, A1A passenger truck (two powered outboard axles, with the center one unpowered). The truck was designed by Martin Blomberg, who, as an employee of Pullman in 1934, had participated in the patent for the streamlined design of UP's M-10000. By 1937, Blomberg had moved to Electro-Motive. He was also involved during early 1938 in solving the B-B truck tracking problem on Santa Fe's two earlier boxcab units, 1A and 1B, by adding an unpowered axle ahead of the two powered axles. Also in 1938, he designed the leaf-spring, swing hanger-equipped, arch-sideframe two-axle truck that was first applied to EMC's FT freight locomotive.

Andre

 

[nscaler711]

no i must have confused you they used Bloomberg three axle trucks.. Co-Co config.

[Gandy Dancer]

Southern Pacific E-9 #6051.

An E unit with B trucks?  That had to look worse than the D&RGW PB with Bs under it.

[nscaler711]

YESS!

another one that would have worked is an E7 6001 

[andrechapelon]

Close but no cigar......its not a GE But its a  Southern  Pacific

the truck types are Bloomberg style but they are not Bo-Bo configuration 

Southern Pacific E-9 #6051.

Andre

[nscaler711]

Close but no cigar......its not a GE But its a  Southern  Pacific

the truck types are Bloomberg style but they are not Bo-Bo configuration 

[joseph2]

nscaler,is it  a 44 Ton GE ? The Sp had a few of them.  Joe

[Gandy Dancer]

Ah shucks... I thought someone had figured out the previous one of what "Texas Zepher" was ....

[nscaler711]

i have one 

i have two engines in my body.... 

yet im not a DD/anything

i have the colors of a famous Steam train.

i am an american loco....but not Alco. 

My # starts with a 6....and its four digits long 

i use trucks that start with a B....the B doesnt stand for Bo

i ran in the South Pac.

What am I?  

[snagletooth]

Hey, I resemble that remark! I had a 50/50 chance, with 50 already gone.

[R. T. POTEET]

You are a Sneaky Falls and Western diamond-stack 2-8-0 rusting in the weeds on the north side of the one-stall enginehouse at South Sneaky Falls!!!

[MilwaukeeRoad]

DING! DING! DING! A 4-4-2 Atlantic was the answer.

[snagletooth]

An Atlantic?

[MilwaukeeRoad]

Close..

[myred02]

I am named after an ocean and am a very popular steam locomotive for the Milwaukee Road. I used to be found by the Milwaukee station.

Let me guess... a Pacific? (That's kind of a "shot in the dark" as I don't know much about steam locomotives.)

-Brandon

[MilwaukeeRoad]

I am named after an ocean and am a very popular steam locomotive for the Milwaukee Road. I used to be found by the Milwaukee station.

[CPRail modeler]

no one got it huh?

i am an 44H44A1 or DT2!

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%2010/CP%2010.htm

[CPRail modeler]

i got one! i got one!

i am a very special locomotive

i am the lowest numbered group in the roster

only 14 of us were built

a number of us went on static display

we are CANADIAN!

[Texas Zepher]

Could it be the fist GE, the U25B Demonstrator. What'd they call it U25X or something?

  Don't know much about the U25B, but that is not me.

I was repainted to the old scheme to re-enact a grade crossing accident. 

[Texas Zepher]

Wild guess, but are you a Burlington E-5?   Egad, those were handsome beasties!

No, as far as I know the E5s were always just stainless - no real paint schemes.

[snagletooth]

Yes it is a diesel.

OK, is it http://atsf.railfan.net/cowls/bnsf6550a.jpg ?

Oh that is a way cool guess, and some interesting questions could be constructed about the history of those, but no that's not ME.

I know that an Onion Specific 4884-2 Class rebuilt from a B&O Dockside is not the right answer - but one of these days it will be the right answer

but could it be a GP30?  Possibly Southern and N&W merger?

Not so far out in left field.  GP30s and N&W have very twisty turney histories. I think that is a good guess, just not ME.

I am a 1st Generation Diesel. 

 

 

Texas--

Wild guess, but are you a Burlington E-5?   Egad, those were handsome beasties!

Tom

Could it be the fist GE, the U25B Demonstrator. What'd they call it U25X or something? I heard it wasn't very reliable and almost sunk GE at the start until UP guys got a hold of it and did some tweeking.

[twhite]

Yes it is a diesel.

OK, is it http://atsf.railfan.net/cowls/bnsf6550a.jpg ?

Oh that is a way cool guess, and some interesting questions could be constructed about the history of those, but no that's not ME.

I know that an Onion Specific 4884-2 Class rebuilt from a B&O Dockside is not the right answer - but one of these days it will be the right answer

but could it be a GP30?  Possibly Southern and N&W merger?

Not so far out in left field.  GP30s and N&W have very twisty turney histories. I think that is a good guess, just not ME.

I am a 1st Generation Diesel. 

 

 

Texas--

Wild guess, but are you a Burlington E-5?   Egad, those were handsome beasties!

Tom

[Texas Zepher]

Yes it is a diesel.

OK, is it http://atsf.railfan.net/cowls/bnsf6550a.jpg ?

Oh that is a way cool guess, and some interesting questions could be constructed about the history of those, but no that's not ME.

I know that an Onion Specific 4884-2 Class rebuilt from a B&O Dockside is not the right answer - but one of these days it will be the right answer

but could it be a GP30?  Possibly Southern and N&W merger?

Not so far out in left field.  GP30s and N&W have very twisty turney histories. I think that is a good guess, just not ME.

I am a 1st Generation Diesel. 

 

 

[twcenterprises]

This is a wild, out-in-left-field guess, but could it be a GP30?  Possibly Southern and N&W merger?

Brad 

[R. T. POTEET]

It is an Onion Specific 4884-2 Class rebuilt from a B&O Dockside - and a mighty poor looking one at that.

Back in the '40s - that's the 1940s, not he 1840s - there was a radio program called Twenty Questions; a panel tried to guess the subject with twenty questions or less.  One night the first rattle out of the box guessed The Brooklyn Dodgers and he was correct.  It was a wildassguess but he commented that he knew that one day the subject would be The Brooklyn Dodgers and he had just decided to make that guess at that particular moment.

I know that an Onion Specific 4884-2 Class rebuilt from a B&O Dockside is not the right answer - but one of these days it will be the right answer and I'll be laying in the brush waiting for it to pass by on the trail.

[andrechapelon]

Yes it is a diesel.

OK, is it http://atsf.railfan.net/cowls/bnsf6550a.jpg ?

Andre

[Texas Zepher]

Yes it is a diesel.

[twhite]

andrechapelon and Twhite you are right on the money.  Was that one too easy?

Could we finish one before we start the next!?!

 

You're right, we should.  But I think you're talking about a diesel, and I don't know anything about diesels, LOL!

Tom