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Nostalgia & History > Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet?Date: 01/26/07 21:17 Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: NH2006 I don't think I've ever seen mixed power with F units and GP/SD units on the Rio Grande, though SP6190 has lots and lots of BN and SP mixes:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/attachments/fullsize/179000/img440.jpg Date: 01/26/07 22:11 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: davew833 The Rio Grande Zephyr occasionally ran with mixed GP/F9B units.
Date: 01/26/07 22:24 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: highgreengraphics Oh, yeah, well before my time, but long lines of mixed F's, geeps and SD's were standard fare for helper sets out of Minturn, CO, and a Geep was added in the middle of F-unit sets to form the "Perlman Mallet" arrangement to speed up schedules. Many pics in Rio Grande books, certainly must be some floating around TO members. - - JLH
Date: 01/26/07 23:13 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: eatontm EF probably has countless negs of this on the Tennessee Pass Line.
TME Date: 01/27/07 06:04 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: qnyla Here is a shot of the RGZ with a GP40-2 mixed with F units.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=151085 Date: 01/27/07 09:13 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: NH2006 Thanks guys!
Wow, That is one clean GP40! Date: 09/02/14 12:29 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: Seventyfive I rode the Zeph in 1974 Denver to SLC and the lead motor was a GP30, and the rest of the consist had the usual motors. The regular F 5771 must have been in the shop. If you google "drgw 5771" a bunch of photos will come up as 'images of drgw 5771'; one of them shows the 5771 with an FB and a black GP.
Rich Date: 09/02/14 13:11 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: WAF NH2006 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think I've ever seen mixed power with F > units and GP/SD units on the Rio Grande, though > SP6190 has lots and lots of BN and SP mixes: > http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/attachments/ > fullsize/179000/img440.jpg I'm assuming you mean GP30/GP35/GP40/SD45s with Fs? Date: 09/02/14 13:14 Re: Did Rio Grande F and GP/SD units ever meet? Author: NH2006 WAF Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > NH2006 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I don't think I've ever seen mixed power with F > > units and GP/SD units on the Rio Grande. > > I'm assuming you mean GP30/GP35/GP40/SD45s with > Fs? Yep. 7 years later (wow this thread is old!), I've seen lots of these now online. Thanks! |