Western Railroad Discussion > California Northern - Photo Location Help

I took the attached image on the California Northern somewhere between Tracy and Los Banos, California in 2009. I labeled the file "Liberty." Is Liberty a station, town, or street?

I'm updating my files and would like an exact location.

Thank you,

JMW
http://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains

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jmw Wrote:
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> I took the attached image on the California
> Northern somewhere between Tracy and Los Banos,
> California in 2009. I labeled the file "Liberty."
> Is Liberty a station, town, or street?
>
> I'm updating my files and would like an exact
> location.
>
> Thank you,
>
> JMW
> http://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains

JMW,

Liberty Packing, Ingomar Road north of Los Banos.

J.

It would be Liberty Packing, north of Los Banos (actually just north of railroad station of VOLTA).

Outstanding!

Thank you!

JMW

Did the GP-15's have tunnel motor style radiators for a particular reason? Great shots of a shortline hauler.

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nicknack Wrote:
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> Did the GP-15's have tunnel motor style radiators
> for a particular reason? Great shots of a
> shortline hauler.
>
> Posted from Android

You would have to ask the design engineers at EMD about that.

Sure, for the same reason as the MP15's, whatever that was! Guess it was just
ease of packaging the radiator sections, Jack would know.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/14 15:55 by callum_out.

nicknack Wrote:
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> Did the GP-15's have tunnel motor style radiators
> for a particular reason?

When EMD developed its 1500 horsepower alternator equipped MP15AC switcher, they also chose to eliminate the belt driven cooling fan that was used on the MP15/MP15DC and previous switcher models. To do so they chose to utilize a smaller version of the alternative cooling system as utilized on their SD40T-2 and SD45T-2 "tunnel motor" models. This system used an AC powered cooling fan to draw cooling air in through the intake grilles at the bottom of the long hood on both sides. The air was then pushed through the radiators for cooling and the hot air was blown out through the grilles on top of the long hood.

With the development of the 1500 horsepower GP15-1, EMD chose to utilize the same cooling system as on the MP15AC since it was already sized for 1500 horsepower applications.


Chris Toth
NSDash9.com

NSDash9 Wrote:
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> nicknack Wrote:
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> > Did the GP-15's have tunnel motor style
> radiators
> > for a particular reason?
>
> When EMD developed its 1500 horsepower alternator
> equipped MP15AC switcher, they also chose to
> eliminate the belt driven cooling fan that was
> used on the MP15/MP15DC and previous switcher
> models. To do so they chose to utilize a smaller
> version of the alternative cooling system as
> utilized on their SD40T-2 and SD45T-2 "tunnel
> motor" models. This system used an AC powered
> cooling fan to draw cooling air in through the
> intake grilles at the bottom of the long hood on
> both sides. The air was then pushed through the
> radiators for cooling and the hot air was blown
> out through the grilles on top of the long hood.
>
> With the development of the 1500 horsepower
> GP15-1, EMD chose to utilize the same cooling
> system as on the MP15AC since it was already sized
> for 1500 horsepower applications.
>
>
> Chris Toth
> NSDash9.com

Excellent info. Much appreciated !

Chris

Excellent as always! And others take note of where Chris Toth used and didn't use the dash "-" in his EMD models; they are used correctly unlike other posters in the list, i.e there is no dash "-" after GP, MP, E, F, SW, etc!

Peter Arnold

ChrisCampi Wrote:
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> NSDash9 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > nicknack Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Did the GP-15's have tunnel motor style
> > radiators
> > > for a particular reason?
> >
> > When EMD developed its 1500 horsepower
> alternator
> > equipped MP15AC switcher, they also chose to
> > eliminate the belt driven cooling fan that was
> > used on the MP15/MP15DC and previous switcher
> > models. To do so they chose to utilize a
> smaller
> > version of the alternative cooling system as
> > utilized on their SD40T-2 and SD45T-2 "tunnel
> > motor" models. This system used an AC powered
> > cooling fan to draw cooling air in through the
> > intake grilles at the bottom of the long hood
> on
> > both sides. The air was then pushed through the
> > radiators for cooling and the hot air was blown
> > out through the grilles on top of the long
> hood.
> >
> > With the development of the 1500 horsepower
> > GP15-1, EMD chose to utilize the same cooling
> > system as on the MP15AC since it was already
> sized
> > for 1500 horsepower applications.
> >
> >
> > Chris Toth
> > NSDash9.com
>
> Excellent info. Much appreciated !
>
> Chris

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