Steam & Excursion > Ex-DRGW F9B headed to Roseville

This unit was kept from the scrappers just after the merger. It went to Cheyenne with plans made to rebuild it into a unit that could help the steam engines when needed without looking so much like a diesel (a la Clinchfield). It also has dynamic brakes.

That plan was brutally murdered like so many others.

The unit has had the traction motors removed and is headed to Roseville to either be used as a parts source for the existing snowplow snails or to be rebuild into a snail.

Is this the third unit from the Zephyr set? The A and the other B are at CRM.

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What are those hoses by the end door?

Equalize water between the steam generator water tanks.
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Was hoping it was join its brothers.

everyone see this pic the other day

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4338875

Its appearance on 6-11, it was still sitting in Cheyenne, WY by Main P-4 at Crow Creek unchanged two days ago. === === = === JLH



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/17 13:17 by highgreengraphics.

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Makes me wonder what will happen to the CNW F7 #401?

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MJV1988 Wrote:
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> Makes me wonder what will happen to the CNW F7
> #401?
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> Posted from Android

Probably scrap, along with most other items there, including the wheel lathe, the E9B body and E8A body.

Realist Wrote:
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> MJV1988 Wrote:
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> > Makes me wonder what will happen to the CNW F7
> > #401?
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> > Posted from Android
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> Probably scrap, along with most other items there,
> including the wheel lathe, the E9B body and E8A
> body.

Was there any original plans for the CNW 401 like the DRGW B unit? I know the 400 went to Spooner, WI and got scrapped and the 402 and 403 are now at the Royal Gorge Scenic RR.

Torrington Wyoming has wanted the CNW 401, and I think it was just a logistics deal of getting it there. The E8 is owned by a private individual who basically only wants the cab area, and the rest was supposed to be scrapped a long time ago. Not sure on the E9B as it wasn't a high priority for Omaha even when Steve was still around. The budget and some of the late 90's merger, along with 844's new firebox kinda killed that project.

Realist Wrote:
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> MJV1988 Wrote:
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> > Makes me wonder what will happen to the CNW F7
> > #401?
> >
> > Posted from Android
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> Probably scrap, along with most other items there,
> including the wheel lathe, the E9B body and E8A
> body.

Isn't that wheel lathe what could have been used to fix the flat spots on 844s drivers if it were operational?

up3985 Wrote:
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> Realist Wrote:
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> > MJV1988 Wrote:
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> > > Makes me wonder what will happen to the CNW
> F7
> > > #401?
> > >
> > > Posted from Android
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> > Probably scrap, along with most other items
> there,
> > including the wheel lathe, the E9B body and E8A
> > body.
>
> Isn't that wheel lathe what could have been used
> to fix the flat spots on 844s drivers if it were
> operational?

Since the flat-spotted drivers event happened in Texas, even if that wheel lathe had been installed in the Cheyenne shop, it wouldn't have helped much. All four driver pairs would STILL have had to be removed and shipped SOMEPLACE for turning.