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Canadian Railroads > Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973Date: 11/17/19 09:10 Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973 Author: photobob An eastbound a few miles east of Jasper in May 1973.
Robert Morris Dunsmuir, CA Robert Morris Photography Date: 11/17/19 09:18 Re: Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973 Author: hoggerdoug Interesting to see a CN unit with dynamic brake. I think the first 7 or 8 SD40's that CN bought had dynamic brake, although I'm not sure if it was operative.
Doug Date: 11/17/19 14:12 Re: Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973 Author: eminence_grise hoggerdoug Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting to see a CN unit with dynamic brake. I > think the first 7 or 8 SD40's that CN bought had > dynamic brake, although I'm not sure if it was > operative. > Doug When I visited Jasper in 1972, the DB equipped SD40's were gathered around the shop. I was told they were used on the steeply graded route from Swan Landing east of Jasper to the coal mines north of there at Winniandy. Date: 11/17/19 14:40 Re: Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973 Author: 1-12016 It is correct that the first sd-40s came with dynamic braking . The rest of that first order up to about 5100 came without but all units after that up to the late 5300 came with dynamics
ozzie korsnes trondheim norway Date: 11/18/19 21:14 Re: Eastbound just east of Jasper May 1973 Author: feclark Gorgeous shot, and of course you realize, looking at those teeny little saplings in the foreground, that this shot must be impossible by now.
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