International Railroad Discussion > They're too far apart (Brazil)

Hi, today morning I met a rail train class V here in town. It was on track 1 waiting another train switching in the yard. The V train was leaded by three fallen flag fca orange livery BB's. When we look to the front porches of the couple of BB40's we realise how far the cabs are apart from each other. 

1 - 3) VLI BB36-7 8501, BB40-T3 8119 and BB40-3 8130 with a rail train here in town.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/22 16:21 by pedrop.

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4 - 6) BB36-7 8501 leading the train V.

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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7) The video.
That's all for now.
Pedro

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

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I've always liked the FCA paint schemes - both the old blue and the more recent orange as well.

As for the 8501, any idea where they took the dynamic brakes that were previously behind the cab?

Great pics!

Nice video and you are right Pedro, long front porches!

Larry

I am not sure, but it looks the dynamic brakes of the GE's were not moved to other locations. I think only the EMD moved them to the rear end. But I will pay attention of this details when I see the next BB36 here in town.

zorz Wrote:
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> I've always liked the FCA paint schemes - both the


> old blue and the more recent orange as well.
>
> As for the 8501, any idea where they took the
> dynamic brakes that were previously behind the
> cab?
>
> Great pics!

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Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/22 15:53 by pedrop.

9 - 10) Here are some pics I took years ago to show how the dinamic brakes of the EMD's were moved to the rear end.
In this link you can see how they modified the SD to BB.
EMD conversion to BB trucks

zorz Wrote:
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> As for the 8501, any idea where they took the
> dynamic brakes that were previously behind the
> cab?
>
> Great pics!

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/22 16:03 by pedrop.

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Thanks, as always, for the photos.  

Do you know what the US numbers/owners were of 8130 and 8119?

Ted in OR



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/08/22 10:48 by gobbl3gook.

Hi Ted,
Unfortunately we could not discover the original owner of most of the units in 81xx series. They belongs to Progress Rail and we didn't have a friend there to give us the original data about the units when they arrived in Brazil.

gobbl3gook Wrote:
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> Thanks, as always, for the photos.  
>
> Do you know what the US numbers/owners were of
> 8130 and 8119?
>
> Ted in OR

Posted from Android

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/08/22 15:50 by pedrop.