jrbernier Randy, You are correct - it is the camshaft weights that need to be changed. You can drop '645' power assemblies into a 567BC engine - BN has lots of engines like. I am not sure about the 'heads' you are referring to. Timz, Yes the 'GP39' program uses the original V16 567D3 & 567D3A prime movers. And they are turbocharged. Jim
Randy,
You are correct - it is the camshaft weights that need to be changed. You can drop '645' power assemblies into a 567BC engine - BN has lots of engines like. I am not sure about the 'heads' you are referring to.
Timz,
Yes the 'GP39' program uses the original V16 567D3 & 567D3A prime movers. And they are turbocharged.
Jim
You cannot place 645 Pa's in a BC engine , the water jumpers are entirely different. BC = B heads C = C liners. You must have C (or better) head pots for a 645 power pack to get water. They have never made a 645 B head.
Trust me , I would if I could , I'd be more than happy to rid myself of leaking BC engines !
Hi Karl --
Yeah, I caught the 2655 over at the Commerce LMF on Fri. 3/6 - probably similar to the time / place that you did.. my photos have different units coupled fore/aft, but still....
--Gary (Orange CA)
Here’s another interesting tidbit on ATSF’s GP30/35s
"By 1960 EMD was offering attractive trade-in programs to replace four worn out FT's with three new GP-20's, then GP-30's and GP-35's, so the FT's were traded in large numbers, giving up their still-useful Blomberg trucks for use under the new locomotives. All of the Santa Fe's GP-20, 30 and 35's originally rode on traded-in FT trucks. The FT carbodies were cut up for scrap and not one Santa Fe FT survived scrapping."
I don't know if the former ATSF-locos still had the FT trucks after their overhauls in the 1980s?
According to Sean Graham White who supplies monthly BNSF motive power updates the rebuilds are being done at Topek and at the RELCO facility in Albia,IA.
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