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Nostalgia & History > few for Maroon Monday . . .Date: 01/23/17 05:46 few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: 3rdswitch . . .
top: With a face only a mother could love one of two Rock Island home built AB's takes a break at Blue Island, IL 8-71. middle: A Rock train has just departed south from El Reno, OK 8-72. bottom: Set of Rock power, Tucumcari, NM 8-74. JB Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/23/17 05:46 by 3rdswitch.    Date: 01/23/17 06:11 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: zr190 The AB6's were not "Home Built". They were built by EMD.
Originally with one prime mover and a baggage room but later upgraded with a second prime mover. zr190 Date: 01/23/17 06:27 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: 3rdswitch Well excuse me, must have had CNW's in mind.
JB Date: 01/23/17 06:47 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: LocoPilot750 They didn't make the MU recepticle easy to get too on that thing.
Date: 01/23/17 07:12 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: bnsfsd70 Yeah, those are the "Crandall Cabs" you were thinking of. These two units, the RI 750 & 751 were built for the Rocky Mountain Rocket as mid-train units that split off the train at Limon for Colorado Springs.
- Jeff Carlson 3rdswitch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well excuse me, must have had CNW's in mind. > JB Date: 01/23/17 08:27 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: milwrdfan RI 750/751 finished out their years of service on the RI in commuter service out of Chicago. Both probably met their fate of the cutting torch shortly after their commuter service was done.
Date: 01/23/17 12:13 Re: few for Maroon Monday . . . Author: bnsfsd70 Interestingly, my Dad took some shots of one of them getting cut up in Rockdale, IL that you can see in this old thread:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3291272,3291736#msg-3291736 - Jeff Carlson milwrdfan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RI 750/751 finished out their years of service on > the RI in commuter service out of Chicago. Both > probably met their fate of the cutting torch > shortly after their commuter service was done. |