There was that most definitely and also the extra large cab portended elimination of cabooses and crews didn't want to support that. I think the BQs eventually had their windows plated over and served in trailing service only.
The following article shows some of the locos that were eventually converted to B-units: https://csxthsociety.org/journal/v0...alv08n3-20200401--bq23_7-footer-apdf-7mb-.pdf
At least that one had some effort done to streamlining it. And some class! A shame Ingalls didn't catch on. That would have made for some interesting variety on the rails.
I was never enamored by the look of these. I guess they were more functional as a road switcher than the F units that they were built from.
The CF7s weren't that bad. I give them extra points because they were almost completely home-built units. The early ones used a piece of the cab area from the donor F7s but the last ones had everything home-built (even the engine hood was a carbon copy of a GP7 hood) save for what was under the frame, inside the hood and cab, and that little piece from the front of the F's above the coupler. At least they look somewhat Geepy. The BQ23-7s only look Creepy...
A sort of anti-beauty contest? Pugs, Slugs and Uggs? I suspect a lot of Mexican rebuilds/kitbashes would make that cut...
That Santa Fe CF7 is coupled to a BL2 by the looks of it. Whoever was assigning locos to trains that day really didn't like rail fans.
CF-7s even went to NJ on the Black River & Western. I found these in July 1985. Both have since been scrapped, tho the 42 went on to serve the Maryland & Delaware before meeting the torch.
Two CR shots here from July 1980. These were shot from a weekend campsite set up by friends and me at Bennington Curve between Horseshoe Curve and the summit at Gallitzin, PA. The view was fantastic. Looking east, two SD-45s have completed their shove over the Allegheny summit and are starting downgrade toward Horseshoe Curve, about four miles away. The second picture looks west toward the tunnels and the summit, about a mile away. The mainline here was four tracks at the time, but within several years, CR slimmed it down to three and it remains that way today under NS. At the time, there also existed a secondary line up the mountain that had a Muleshoe Curve. It was less than a mile distant out of sight to the left, but it was removed from service in 1981 and US-22 was rerouted on portions of its right of way.
Look what popped out of the shadow to see if winter is going to come or go. BNSF 9796 second out on CPKC K38 as they enter the siding to work at Dubuque. Dubuque, IA February 28, 2024 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
We had a celebrity sighting on the coast yesterday. They are running railroad south on the NO&M Sub toward the Big Easy.
Sweet! The Hoosier Line lives on! On the subject of celebrities, one drifted by the Roanoke museum rail cam: There was a certain je ne sais quoi in the air...
