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CN slug 600 just out of paint shop at Progress Rail Tacoma Wa . Aug 30  2020 . photo by Chris Marshall

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Interesting to note the 600 number, makes me wonder if this is a rebuild from a 200 series YBU-4 slug. Most of which were rebuilt from GP9 or MLW locomotives. (The 200 series is paired with a transition equipped unit such as a 7200 series GP9 or SD40u). 500 series HBU-4s have a similar electrical system to the GP38-2/GP40, and are paired with a 7500 series GP38-2.

Super-C Wrote:
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> CN slug 600 just out of paint shop at Progress
> Rail Tacoma Wa . Aug 30  2020 . photo by Chris
> Marshall


Not finished yet. No maple leaf heralds.

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cn1063 Wrote:
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> Interesting to note the 600 number, makes me
> wonder if this is a rebuild from a 200 series
> YBU-4 slug. Most of which were rebuilt from GP9
> or MLW locomotives. (The 200 series is paired
> with a transition equipped unit such as a 7200
> series GP9 or SD40u). 500 series HBU-4s have a
> similar electrical system to the GP38-2/GP40, and
> are paired with a 7500 series GP38-2.

It could have been one of the low-200 series, or 500-series HBU-4 or YBU-4 slugs built new by GMD. The ex-GP9 slugs are longer, one extra handrail stanchion and 11 spaced instead of 10.
Fred

Will the mother be painted in the same scheme? If it is would this a change in the paint for other units?

cvrrr

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We don't know yet but there is a hi tech looking GP in there  # 7600 hard to get photo of its still in patched up primer.  there is also another CN slug there ,. Chris

Hopefully the other side reads CANADIEN NATIONAL.
 

Are they Heritage colours if they're not really the heritage colours? Just askin'. Provoking a little debate, perhaps.
Fred

feclark Wrote:
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> Are they Heritage colours if they're not really
> the heritage colours? Just askin'. Provoking a
> little debate, perhaps.
> Fred

The picture is taken from the shady side of the slug, so it's possible the green isn't really that shade.  It's an interesting development, whatever colour it is.

I think the 200- and 500-series slugs also differed in having DC vs. AC blower motors, to match the unit powering them.

GTD

The two CN slugs that were shipped to Progress Rail in Tacoma were the 503 and 516.

MP555 Wrote:
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> The two CN slugs that were shipped to Progress
> Rail in Tacoma were the 503 and 516.

And the two GP38-2s that were shipped there were 4702 and 4728

alamode Wrote:
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> MP555 Wrote:
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> > The two CN slugs that were shipped to Progress
> > Rail in Tacoma were the 503 and 516.
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> And the two GP38-2s that were shipped there were
> 4702 and 4728

What is this project about?  Is CN starting a heritage fleet?

EDITED TO ADD:   I've learned that the work involves creating two mother-slug sets, to be numbered 7600-600 and 7601-601.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/07/20 05:25 by railsmith.