Nostalgia & History > RVM-36: N&W leading w./2 UP U50's & GP30

Denver on 7/11/76 ... how's this mix? 

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No dynamics for you, engine crew.

ts1457 Wrote: > ... No dynamics ...

True. I would imagine back in those days (of much shorter trains) UP's engineers used a lot of power-braking to control their trains...

Lance/199



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/24 08:27 by santafe199.

Trucks on the leed unit look wierd. Perhaps the lighting.
Regards, Jim Evans
 

santafe199 Wrote:
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> ts1457 Wrote: > ... No dynamics ...
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> True. I would imagine back in those days (of much
> shorter trains) UP's engineers used a lot of
> power-braking to control their trains...
>
> Lance/199

I agree, but DB was not there if one needed it.  

Back in the mid-seventies early in my N&W career, I rode a train with such a unit back in the power consist. The engineer was pissed. He had a few choice words about the power bureau in SOC. I think N&W may have fixed the problem later, but the non-DB unit would not pass through the DB circuit. Thus DB would not work on the units behind it.

FiveChime Wrote:
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> Trucks on the leed unit look wierd. Perhaps the
> lighting.
> Regards, Jim Evans
>  

Here's a better view of the trucks on a similar unit, this one in Denver on 8/18/76, also by Bruce Black 

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Here is a shot of N&W 1303 taken at Fostoria (OH) in 1976 which shows the trucks better.  This was one of ten GP35s ordered by Wabash just before the N&W takeover.  N&W cancelled the order after just seven units had been delivered.  N&W 1303 was later NS 1303, Springfield Terminal 214.

mike woodruff
anacortes wa

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Good question, when did non-dynamic units start having MU pass thru?

Out 

When the customer specified it in the purchase contract.

Thanks, Mike for the info.  I couldn't remember if those low nosed GP35's without dynamics were Wabash ordered or P&WV ordered units.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA