Canadian Railroads > Fifty or More Years Ago - CN 3106

(Redo) CN 3106 (MLW RS-18) is in CN's Spadina engine facility in Toronto in June 1972.
Bob

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Great subject(s), and the redo was definitely worth it. That's a spectacularly sharp scan, Bob!
Fred

Very nice.  Strange trucks on some of those 3100's too.
 

Bill Miller
Galt, ON

CCMF Wrote:
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> Very nice.  Strange trucks on some of those
> 3100's too.
>  

These were lightweight B-trucks built by MLW. Some of this is in the Courtney-Goslett-Holland volume 2 on CN diesels. My cursory re-reading doesn't specify the weight of the trucks, which don't have leaf springs and don't have outboard brake cylinders. On p. 61 they noted that heavyweight RS-18s weighed 247,000 lbs. loaded, whereas a typical lightweight version weighed 215,000 lbs. These trucks were not mentioned at all in DSG 2, although they show up in photos of CP RS-23 8030, CN RS-10 3813, and CP RS-18 8790 in that book.
Fred