Overmod But if that's controversial ... ignore it.
But if that's controversial ... ignore it.
Not at all, only fools ignore facts and history.
'Conqueror' well suits multiple locomotive models from over the years, I'll throw the EMD FT in there along with Welch's Dash-8.
Now what do we call the SD50...
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
SD70DudeNow what do we call the SD50...
I'm sorely tempted to call it the "Vasa of the Rails"...
(Other contenders come to mind, but most of them have problems 'by accident' and not due to functional disasters in the design. I thought of Liberty Ships but that was just the welding technology. What am I missing?)
Good one! Pretty hard to beat that, well, unless you're a stiff breeze!
Let's hope it doesn't end up HMS Vanguard.
Too late to matter in a world that's basically now all General Electric at the head of mainline freight trains. And like HMS Vanguard with her obsolete 15" guns that had been in storage for 20 years after being removed from retired battlecruisers, their 710 engines in these have been idle for years and date to an earlier time.
I think CPR will decide they have a winner with these though. Perhaps not enough to seriously consider ordering Tier 4 successors from EMD, but hopefully enough to ensure decades of successful service for these rebuilds. Maybe they'll end up being happy enough that they even keep an eye open for some used 2nd hand deals to rebuild to similar specifications in the future (They've already bought several retired SD9043MAC's from Union Pacific to enable a full 30 unit follow-up order in 2020).
i have operated cp's sd90whatevers, only had 1 trip when they didn't crap out, rebuild them all you want, when they finally get scrapped, the trusty and probally rusty sd40-2will still be out working as EMD intended
Photos are now out of CP 7001 on Trainorders and elsewhere, the first SD70ACU to see sunlight. Looks just like the NS units, except of course for the paint.
Dreadnoughts on the line to Prince Rupert:
https://railpictures.net/photo/708757/
https://railpictures.net/photo/708766/
https://railpictures.net/photo/708768/
https://railpictures.net/photo/708771/
Hopefully these units are successful and we see more SD9043MAC rebuilds in the future.
I've seen the NS rebuilds in regular service so I foresee no problems on CP as most of the bugs have already been worked out.
kgbw49 Dreadnoughts on the line to Prince Rupert:
Hopefully not, CP doesn't serve Prince Rupert.
beaulieu kgbw49 Dreadnoughts on the line to Prince Rupert: Hopefully not, CP doesn't serve Prince Rupert.
As stated in the photo captions, this is a run-through train on CN track. These trains (symbols C741 and C740 on CN) run from mines on CP in southeastern BC to the port of Prince Rupert. Interchange takes place in Kamloops, and the CP power normally runs through to minimize switching.
Dreadnought with a heavy cruiser...
https://railpictures.net/photo/710710/
Looks like a lot of SD70ACU rebuilds waiting to happen.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/711066/
kgbw49 Looks like a lot of SD70ACU rebuilds waiting to happen. https://www.railpictures.net/photo/711066/
Maybe not quite that many. All of the close-up power is Dash-9's, the SD9043MAC's are almost out of sight at the upper left.
Yes I understand. I was just referring to the SD9043MACs in the picture since the thread is “CP Rebuilds”. While CP has done a lot of AC4400s into AC44CWM units, I don’t believe they have done any rebuilding of models in the picture other than SD9043MACs. Counting the large “wedge-shaped” radiators in the view there appear to be 9 and maybe 10 SD9043MACs in the line.
The first two SD70ACU Heritage locomotives at Bensenville Yard;
https://railpictures.net/photo/712451/
https://railpictures.net/photo/712489/
Dreadnought on the move:
https://railpictures.net/photo/713022/
SD70ACU dwarfing FP7s on an office car special:
https://railpictures.net/photo/713236/
https://railpictures.net/photo/713265/
Reminds me of Thoreau, every time I see one of these:
" ... it seems the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it"
...and looking down from the Great Interlocking Tower in the Sky, David P. Morgan smiled, shook his head approvingly, and said, "Well done, Overmod. Well done indeed."
Two heritage-painted SD70ACUs earning their keep:
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/713528/
Back on the high iron earning its keep:
https://railpictures.net/photo/714141/
Good to see these large units out on the high iron again:
https://railpictures.net/photo/714436/
https://railpictures.net/photo/714437/
https://railpictures.net/photo/714438/
https://railpictures.net/photo/714439/
https://railpictures.net/photo/714440/
https://railpictures.net/photo/714443/
CP has been discussing the Heritage Paint Scheme program internally for several years. I just hope that some day it extends to it's merged railroads such as it did for NS. Maybe we can again see a Milwaukee Road Heritage Locomotive properly done in Orange and Black.
CMStPnPMaybe we can again see a Milwaukee Road Heritage Locomotive properly done in Orange and Black.
There's a C630 on DeviantArt done in sample orange and black; a 'heritage' unit like it might be remarkably easy to produce and maintain... and I for one would certainly like to see one of the large EMDs get the treatment!
Of course, I think a 'better' case could probably be made to apply a heritage scheme to more 'heritage-accurate' power ... but, still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaB9yXaqmXQ
Milwaukee Road would only be one example. Others to be included would be SOO, D&H, DSS&A and possibly others.
Let's just be grateful that Canadian Pacific has a small fleet of Heritage power in the first place.
The paint on the trains rolls mainly on the plains.
Just "loverly"!
Overmod CMStPnP Maybe we can again see a Milwaukee Road Heritage Locomotive properly done in Orange and Black. There's a C630 on DeviantArt done in sample orange and black; a 'heritage' unit like it might be remarkably easy to produce and maintain... and I for one would certainly like to see one of the large EMDs get the treatment! Of course, I think a 'better' case could probably be made to apply a heritage scheme to more 'heritage-accurate' power ... but, still... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaB9yXaqmXQ
CMStPnP Maybe we can again see a Milwaukee Road Heritage Locomotive properly done in Orange and Black.
To fuel the speculation mill, four of the units were released under tarps, each with different colored truck and fuel tank paint:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60379445@N05/48968824036/in/dateposted/
Tarped units are 7020-7023 and 6644.
As has been noted on Facebook and other forums 6644 = 6-6-44 = June 6, 1944 = D-Day.
Between that and the olive green paint on 7020 I'm thinking these are military and possibly first responder appeciation units.
What is interesting is that CP must have some confidence that these SD70ACUs will be solid performers as they are putting such hefty publicity eggs in this basket. That would seem to be good news on the surface.
I am thinking with the colors of the running gear there just might be an early Soo Line unit and a MILW unit in there with the first responders and military.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/710989/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/476662/
I would hope that CP 6644 will carry the name "Juno Beach".
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