Nostalgia & History > Fill in the blank: CNW 414? GP7

Photo taken over the fence with step ladder at Motive Power Industries Boise, ID 7/3/00.

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Parts is Parts.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

CNW 4148. It was one of several CNW 414x units sold to Boise Locomotive, but the only one that was ex-DRGW which had the sideframe around the fuel tank like in the picture. The ex-CRIP units had a different design.

Death by a Thousand Cuts.

ble692 Wrote:
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> CNW 4148. It was one of several CNW 414x units
> sold to Boise Locomotive, but the only one that
> was ex-DRGW which had the sideframe around the
> fuel tank like in the picture. The ex-CRIP units
> had a different design.

Ex Rio Grande 5101 via RI? From http://www.drgw.net/info/GP7

"To CRIP 4200 on 6-Nov-1972
To CRIP 4485 on 29-Mar-1975
To CRIP 4473 on 21-Oct-1976
To CNW 4148 on Feb-1981
Scrapped 1996"

Maybe not, since the photo was taken in 2000. Or, the drgw.net roster is incorrect.

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/09/19 17:31 by CPR_4000.

CPR_4000 Wrote:
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> Ex Rio Grande 5101 via RI? From
> http://www.drgw.net/info/GP7
>
> "To CRIP 4200 on 6-Nov-1972
> To CRIP 4485 on 29-Mar-1975
> To CRIP 4473 on 21-Oct-1976
> To CNW 4148 on Feb-1981
> Scrapped 1996"
>
> Maybe not, since the photo was taken in 2000. Or,
> the drgw.net roster is incorrect.

Hmm, that info differs slightly from what is on this site...

http://utahrails.net/up-diesel-roster/up-x-cnw.php#gp7r-cnw4100

The utahrails.net site does agree with drgw.net on the renumberings, but shows 1996 as the UP retirement date, not the UP sale/disposition date. It further lists a sale date of 4/29/99 to BLC would seem to work with the photo date of 7/3/00.

Can't offer anything more than that as to which site is correct.

Maybe it was "retired" not scrapped, in 1996.

No dynamic brakes on it.  Doubt Rio Grande.

tomstp Wrote:

> No dynamic brakes on it.  Doubt Rio Grande.

Dynamic brake blisters are easily removed, and granger CNW was famous for shunning dynamic brakes even on big power like SD45's.  This is CNW 4148 in service:

https://www.cnwhs.org/photos/images/desm/cnw4148.jpg

The tank skirting matches, as do some of the paint blemishes on the short hood.

Thanks for the replies. It appears to be either 4146 or 4148
John Bargert