Nostalgia & History > SP GE Dash-8's dinged noses

SP Dash-8's were not the most popular of SP's units to roll through the Dunsmuir area however most of the shots I have of these units have dented nose's. I have very few shots of EMD units with any nose dents.Why would this be? The first shot shows a small dent on 8023 on a westbound at Sims.

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Heres 8038 above Cantara Loop with a pretty good sized dent.

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Heres 8057 also above Cantara Loop with another pretty good dent.

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more like Bash 8 heard that used in relation to one of the original NYSW units I think 4006 now on the P&W

hmm, looking through some pics of mine from the time before UP, the 8019 and the 8026 don't feature similar dents. I didn't catch many of the B39-8's, I was more intrested in the SD9's.

Ted Curphey
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Maybe Plain Ovak's crane fell on them when you weren't looking Bob…

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Eljays got a dinged UP nose up a few threads too....
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1054742,1054742#msg-1054742

Nice P-Bob! I know of some Espee hogg's that didn't like these guys on mountain grades for obvious four axle slippage reasons. But they were my favorite GE's (still are today even in yellow) and sure did sound neat under load or at idle!

four words:

thin
cheap
sheet
metal

Yup, all of the dash-8 class seem to have suffered from this dented nose phenomenon from their delivery in the late 80's on through the present day. I just like how that SP scarlet still manages to shine even with the B39-8E nose dents!


-Ryan aka "espee_b-boat_boy"
on the ex-WP Oakland Sub MP11.2



photobob Wrote:
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> SP Dash-8's were not the most popular of SP's
> units to roll through the Dunsmuir area however
> most of the shots I have of these units have
> dented nose's. I have very few shots of EMD units
> with any nose dents.Why would this be? The first
> shot shows a small dent on 8023 on a westbound at
> Sims.

Looking at some other pics, the B39's seem have and extra sand filler in the middle position. Maybe if they were sanded too quickly with plugged or no venting, they might have collapsed under vaccum? just a thought.

        The possibility of thinner metal probably has little to do with it. The question was why are they dented therefore the answer most likely has to do with 'what was hitting them' .

if they were hit from the outside, wouldn't the paint be scratched? maybe not necessarily, but most likely? does lend more credence to the internal theory, i.e. 'vacuum'