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QUOTE: Originally posted by THayman Do CN's SD70M-2's have conventional or desktop control stands? I know the new ES44DC's have conventional stands, like the C44-9W's and SD70/75i locomotives before, but I have yet to see a cab shot of an SD70M-2.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44 And when you say conventional, that means desktop, right?
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QUOTE: I think if they made it so that you could move the control stand closer and farther away as needed, it would be a lot better (but that's my futuristic crazy talk, to be filed away along with my idea for remote-control helocopters with video to watch the opposite end of shove moves).
QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35 QUOTE: Originally posted by THayman Do CN's SD70M-2's have conventional or desktop control stands? I know the new ES44DC's have conventional stands, like the C44-9W's and SD70/75i locomotives before, but I have yet to see a cab shot of an SD70M-2. Conventional is NOT what the C44-9W's have. They have DESKTOP. The SD70M-2's, along with the ACe's, have the CONVENTIONAL control stand, like the SD40-2, but with minor adjustments. A guy i know who works for CN took a pic of the cab and its on rialpictures.net.
QUOTE: Originally posted by THayman QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35 Conventional is NOT what the C44-9W's have. They have DESKTOP. The SD70M-2's, along with the ACe's, have the CONVENTIONAL control stand, like the SD40-2, but with minor adjustments. A guy i know who works for CN took a pic of the cab and its on rialpictures.net. This might have been one of their aquired ex-Illinois Central units, because all of the Dash 9's actually built for CN were done with conventional control stands.
QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35 Conventional is NOT what the C44-9W's have. They have DESKTOP. The SD70M-2's, along with the ACe's, have the CONVENTIONAL control stand, like the SD40-2, but with minor adjustments. A guy i know who works for CN took a pic of the cab and its on rialpictures.net.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Saxman The Dash 9's that are lettered for the IC are ex LMS units that under a lease agreement spent six months on the CN and the other six months on Conrail prior to the splitting up of Conrail.
QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03 Aren't there any adjustment to the seats? No up/down, side to side, back and forth?
tormadeldid crews not like the desktop arrangement?
They were knee knockers and uncomfortable
It's always funny to see a topic this old that someone has dredged up deep from the depths of the forums and surprising when you see that you were one of the responders.
And everything I abhorred about desktop controls still stands.
Although I've not ran a CN SD70M-2,here is a picture of the Engineers's control stand I took of the first NS SD70M-2 I operated.
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