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[spikejones52002]

I was watching RFD.TV (again).

I seen a strange diesel. It was half again longer as the other diesels pulling around Horseshoe curve.

The entire under frame was a truck or 100% wheels. There was a "B" unit the same.

What was it and how did such a long truck track on the curve especially as tight as Horseshoe?

The quality or clairity was not good enough for me to catch the engine numbers.

Any information please.

[cnwfan51]

     Sounds like the Baldwin Cennipde diesels Seems to me there were only a couple of them built the Seaboard rairoad had one of them I Maybe someone else could give you more inforamtion   Larry

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

If they were Centipedes, which sounds likely, you've run into one of the great mistakes in all of dieseldom.  They were built for PRR, SAL, NdeM plus two demonstrators from a cancelled UP order.  They were rated at 3000 HP each with a 2-D+D-2 wheel arrangement.  On PRR, they started out as mainline passenger power, but their unreliability soon had them demoted to pusher service in the Alleghenies.