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Model Railroading > Mexican Centipedes?Date: 01/22/23 16:31 Mexican Centipedes? Author: RRBMail I have been "down-sizing" my humongous HO collection and came upon a Broadway Limited N de M Baldwin Centipede that I bought in a weak moment. Did the N de M run these on freight or passenger trains or both? Thanks in advance!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/23 16:35 by RRBMail. Date: 01/22/23 17:16 Re: Mexican Centipedes? Author: BrynMawr My memory from summer 1962 is freight. All of the trains I was on were pulled by B-Bs.
Date: 01/22/23 17:38 Re: Mexican Centipedes? Author: emd_mrs1 Based on published photos, they ran mostly on freight trains often with diesels such as the C424.
Michael Date: 01/22/23 20:13 Re: Mexican Centipedes? Author: ts1457 Initially NdeM used them for passenger service, but that did not last past the early fifties.
I would love to see a picture of them in passenger service. Date: 01/23/23 08:20 Re: Mexican Centipedes? Author: BAB BrynMawr Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > My memory from summer 1962 is freight. All of > the trains I was on were pulled by B-Bs. Saw pix of some strange looking CC trucked units down there thought they were EMD units. Date: 01/23/23 10:40 Re: Mexican Centipedes? Author: BrynMawr Trying to be more precise. The trains we were on--an Illini RR Club private car pair added to regularly scheduled passenger runs--were all pulled by what I remember as FP7s or similar except for the CHP where we we pulled by FM hood units. We saw a centipede (maybe two) pulling a freight. Carl Caiti did an article in Model RR about them decades ago.
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