Today's trivia question: does anybody know what this and can describe it for others? Harold ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
It would be a Funky looking SD35 rebuilt by seaboard for yard and hump dutys The middle small radiator fan was removed and the dynamic brakes were covered over. If I heard right you had to manually acheve Electrical Transistion in these suckers. But they had a mode you could set them in that would allow them to be in a regular consist and acheve transistion themselfs. ------------------ Theres no such thing as having to many coal hoppers or GP40-2 when you model Chessie System LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!! LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!! LONG LIVE THE TIGER STRIPE!!! (I am one of those wierd Chessie,CR,BN Fans) I looked at DCC... and stayed DC!
You are on the right track.... Here's an example: Harold ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
Here's another from my archives.... I used to always catch them in pairs at Hamlet: Harold ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
Same locos, almost exact same location and pose, now 2 years later and wearing their CSX numbers (1000+ the original) Harold ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
Oh did I forget to mention they had there turbochargers removed. ------------------ Theres no such thing as having to many coal hoppers or GP40-2 when you model Chessie System LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!! LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!! LONG LIVE THE TIGER STRIPE!!! (I am one of those wierd Chessie,CR,BN Fans) I looked at DCC... and stayed DC!
YES! Major point of contention.... they were de-turbo'ed, used a 4 stack "liberated" exhaust system, had the paper air filter box applied (in front of the DB's), the DB blisters blanked out, etc. I think they ended up being re-rated at 1500 hp. As far as the small radiator fan bing removed, none were as far as I can tell.... however, this IS what occurred to the Chessie SD20-2's! Harold ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
I am not sure of the exact dates... from the locos I used to catch, I'd say they were probably off the roster by 1990. Harold
