Western Railroad Discussion > CNW Heritage Unit questions

Here is a question that nags my mind. The CNW heritage unit. Are they going to equip the unit with the C&NW ATS system? I understand that all units have the newer UP Cab Signal system, but only a few select units still have the ATS shoes for use on some of the other CNW lines.

Let's hope that UP equips the CNW unit with ATS equipment for operation on the entire ex CNW system. What good is a CNW heritage unit without being able to lead it anywhere in CNW territory?

off the yahoo illinirails list, for what it's worth:

Came east out of Clinton yesterday on a Lathrop Stack train. Chasing me
all
the way in (well more like crawling since thats all I did the whole
trip in) was
MCLPR. 2nd unit was the 8423. Did a little looksee in the comp and it
shows
that it was to be used in close to Chicago turnaround trips (CLPR, PRCL,
Janesville trains...etc) until Sept 16. Then route to Horicon. Unit
shows for
MPRIT-18. That may change, who knows.
Steve

That should be the DRGW unit... they should have nailed the last of the running DRGW units by then

It will have the CNW ATC for use on the e/w mainline for sure (as anything new has it when delivered), but ATS for the lines north out of Proviso is probably doubtful.

L.G.

I believe Butler is the WSOR interchange.....Anybody smell new paint?
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UP8423 Empty No Arrived Butler, WI 09/18/05 13:45
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