Nostalgia & History > Blue Monday, CR . . .

.   .   .   during a summer '98 visit, an eastbound CR train was approaching Porter, IN.
JB

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Very Nice! Any idea what the lettering next to the herald on the second engine is?

Negative.
JB

Isn't there some sort of 'box' or tank sitting on the walkway of that second unit ?  The sign probably pertains to that.  Some sort of test / measurement stuff, or a trial installation or something ?

SZ

Steinzeit2 Wrote:
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> Isn't there some sort of 'box' or tank sitting on
> the walkway of that second unit ?  The sign
> probably pertains to that.  Some sort of test /
> measurement stuff, or a trial installation or
> something ?
>
> SZ

That’s where the cab signal box was on the GE’s.

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Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

No, not the cab sigs box;  I was thinking there was a much larger 'box' underneath that special lettering referred to in the second post -- but after enlarging the screen photo 200+ %, I think I was wrong on that;  it must have just been the coincidental angles of railing / hood door edges, etc that made me think that.  Yet that additional white lettering does not appear to be on the hood, unless it's stenciled very crookedly -- could that happen on a railroad ??!

SZ

It was an ad-hoc stencil applied to CR 5025 after the split up was announced, reportedly first appearing in 1997:

https://www.cmrproducts.com/store/N-Scale-Conrail-Paint-Out-Decal-Set-p64180529

~RGDave

https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/7097303/1300921226.jpg

Thank you both.

SZ