Wide cab locomotives are ubiquitous on North America’s Class 1 Railroads. It is not necessarily rare to see a motive power consist with one or more narrow-cab locomotives, but it is not common either.
Hence, I stood up and took notice when NS C80 showed up in Alliance with three narrow cab units. It was a light power move and I’m not sure why this power was in town.
The locomotives came in on Track 2, stopped west of the home signal for CP Alliance, and then moved onto the runner before vanishing off to the east.
After the crew tied the units down, it was picked up by a crew van whose driver had a tough time finding the crew even with the assistance of a GPS.
The individual units have some interesting history behind them. All three were on the Conrail motive power roster with two of them having been built for CR.
RP-E4C No. 712 was rebuilt by NS from a GP38 that was built for Penn Central. SD40E No. 6347 was rebuilt from an SD50 built for Conrail. In the middle of the consist was GP40-2 No. 3014.
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November 21, 2017 at 6:18 pm |
Can I say this? the Akron branch is being reopend by NS
We saw the track was cleared, we saw in Hudson one day old ties sitting on the side of the tracks at the wye. plus my dad saw something on Facebook about reopening.