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Nostalgia & History > Extra Ugly F-Unit FridayDate: 05/22/20 16:03 Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: icancmp193 In June of 1976 I ventured home to NJ for the first time in a couple years, and first time since the formation of Conrail. Headed up to the old haunt of Port Jervis, NY and encountered former P-C F7 #1829, front-coupled at that.
When you have come 3,000 miles, you take what you can get! TJY  Date: 05/22/20 21:04 Re: Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: CNW8531 Not ugly to me. Rather a PC classic!
Date: 05/23/20 00:37 Re: Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: krm152 No F-Unit is ugly, not even MKT #401B.
ALLEN Date: 05/23/20 09:47 Re: Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: NYC_L4a No way is that unit ugly. When I saw the word "ugly" in the title, I was expecting a photo of a unit with a snow plow pilot or one of the ones with a squared off pilot.
Date: 05/23/20 23:43 Re: Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: BuddPullman 4thDistrict Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > My favorite - or should I say, unfavorite - "ugly" > F unit is this Rock Island unit with the upper > headlight removed. If I recall, this modified loco is a Rock Island F-2 that lost the upper headlight in repairs after a derailment or incident. Date: 05/24/20 20:28 Re: Extra Ugly F-Unit Friday Author: kenN That's correct, the 49 was repaired that way after a wreck. That's my photo (top) of the 49 in Topeka, KS, on an eastbound Rock Island freight curving onto the big bridge over the Kansas River in 1966, copied from a previous post: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4946397,4946397#msg-4946397
Ken Nagel, Grand Rapids MI |