by msernak
Are there any C-liner's left? If so where? If not, when was the last one scrapped?
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missthealcos wrote:There are 2 CFB16-4's in Alberta, both were converted to remote control cars by the BCR in the early '70's CP 4455, 4456, both early units. Thankfully, unlike the C-liner B-units that CP converted to remote(robot) cars around the same time, the BCR ones still look basically as they should, the CP ones(which were all scrapped in the late '80's) were much more modified.I know that up till 2002 there were the carbodies of three ex-Canadian Pacific Railway C-Liner B-units that were formerly robot cars (I forgot their assigned numbers but have them written down somewhere) that are used as storage sheds in an industrial site in south-east Calgary, Alberta. As far as I know they are still there.
Johnny B wrote:The Long Island scrapped (traded out) their C-Liners in the early 1960's, then started acquiring FA's in the early '70's for push-pull power-cab service. What a shame that these events didn't coincide-- The C's could've been converted like the FA's were, and perhaps survive up to the turn of the century.The C-liners wouldn't have been very adaptable as HEP generator cab cars because of, A, their 3-axle rear trucks; B, their greater length than the Alco FAs; C, the 2000hp or 2400hp prime mover was too big and had too much power for the HEP demands of a typical LIRR push-pull train, which averaged 5-7 cars. The FAs kept their model 244 Alco prime movers as HEP engines, at least for a while, until the railroad began replacing them with smaller engines and alternator-rectifiers instead of straight DC generators with their commutators and brushes.