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Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe U-28CG #350Date: 11/22/05 23:11 Santa Fe U-28CG #350 Author: the_expediter Date: 11/23/05 04:50 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: GPutz Expediter, nice image. But where and when ? Also, I think that's a U28CG. Gerry
Date: 11/23/05 09:04 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: the_expediter Taken in 1968, it is a CG...from background it may have been taken at San Diego Depot...
Date: 11/23/05 10:30 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: millerdc What is a CG?
Date: 11/23/05 11:07 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: dcfbalcoS1 The U28CG was a common U28C with a steam Generator installed for passenger work. The old F's and E's were getting AGE on them at the time and the Santa Fe needed new power.
Date: 11/23/05 11:58 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: GPutz Yes, note that the number, #350, is above the passenger F7As the U28CGs replaced. The F7As were then used to make CF7s. Gerry
Date: 11/23/05 12:17 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: QU25C Chug Chug a chug Chug
Date: 11/23/05 12:54 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: the_expediter I talked to Ed on phone this am- that was the power on a San Diegan..."I" (the expediter) didn't "get" into trains until the next year...Steve
Date: 11/23/05 12:59 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: Nova55 Cool pic. . thanks for sharing
i gotta ask tho. . where did they put the steam gen? Date: 11/23/05 13:41 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: topper Nova55 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > where did they put the steam gen? Directly behind the cab. (Note vent on roof of long hood.) Date: 11/23/05 16:02 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: Evan_Werkema Most GE Universal Series units (except the U50's, I assume) had a "steam generator room" just behind the cab. Santa Fe's U28CG's and U30CG's, and NdeM's U36CG used the space as intended; everyone else's freight U-boats just had an empty room behind the cab. The electrical cabinet, which occupies that space on most other types of diesel electrics, was stuffed under the cab on the U-boats - reportedly just one of many design eccentricities that didn't endear the units to the folks who had to use and work on them. GE eliminated the steam generator room and put the electrical cabinet back where it belonged in the Dash 7's. When Santa Fe rebuilt their U36C's into SF30C's, they also moved the electrical cabinet into the steam generator room.
Date: 11/23/05 19:29 Re: Santa Fe U-28 #350 Author: highgreengraphics Many BN U30C's had the steam generator room stuffed with valves, copper-tube plumbing, solenoids, contactors, and all sorts of confusing small machinery for the largely failed first attempt at locotrol unmanned helpers. It looked pretty archaic compared to today's electronic controls for DPU operation. Most of it already was in various stages of not being maintained to ripped out by the time I began running trains on BN's PRB coal lines in 1979. A few had a toilet relocated to this steam generator area still comingling with all the leftover locotrol stuff, and at least one had dual toilets, with a second one still in the nose! - - - - JLH
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