Western Railroad Discussion > UP 6759 Gets a Nose Job

I caught UP AC4400CW #6759 shoving on the rear of a GSTRCB-07 grain empty today in Echo Canyon. It appears the cab has been repainted. Actually, it may have been replaced. Note that this unit now has upper mounted cab number boards and it features a modern GPS dome on top. I seriously doubt these items were factory applied back in 1996.

Does anyone know the story behind 6759's nose job?

JSB

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It kinda has me wondering about a U.P. GE that got a replacement cab from a wrecked CN GE here in WA just before CEECo shut down a year ago, I forgot what the number was.

It got smacked on a Red Rock coal train a couple of years ago at least. The cab came from CN Dash 9-44CW 2584 and you can see the nose has a different contour that allowed for the "porkchop" window design it had as a CN unit. While the front windows were modified to the standard GE type, the nose remains with the CN angles.

Here it is when BNSF brought it back to Topeka KS http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1564633,1564633#1564633

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2055958
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1862898

So that's it, I didn't even think about the odd angle on the nose and i'd thought they would have kept the CN style windshield on.
At least CEECo did a great job putting that CN cab on it before CEECo shut down last year.

Here are some "before" images to go along with your "after" shot. Nice to see it after it was finished. It somehow got by me at CEECO.

1) & 2) What it looked like when it arrived in Tacoma.

3) The donor cab from CN 2584.

Steve Carter
Gig Harbor, WA
My Photography

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Talk about a nose job. Those surgeons did a heck of a good job. I wonder how much Bondo they went through?

Nice shots, must have been alot of work to reconstruct that one.
Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Todd Montgomery
Eugene OR

Looks like they didn't even repaint the whole unit just the cab and trucks, underframe, the long hood looks like original faded paint.

FINALLY a photo of the rebuilt/repaired/repainted UP6759! I've been searching all over the web for a photo of the CEECO repaired unit for many many months! Thanks JSB!

Same here. It'll have to be modeled.

bnsftrucker Wrote:
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> So that's it, I didn't even think about the odd
> angle on the nose and i'd thought they would have
> kept the CN style windshield on.
> At least CEECo did a great job putting that CN cab
> on it before CEECo shut down last year.

If they had done that then there would be one loco with nonstandard window parts to stock. Since the UP was paying some pretty massive repair fees it was just easier to change the windows to match the rest of the GE fleet.

Thanks to those who have contributed the photos. They tell a nice story.