by CN Sparky
Seems someone's decided to finally spend some money upgrading the older units to be more like the newer units in the fleet...
Saw one of the 5600's come through today, with the electronic fuel gauges, Witronix, video camera, and auto-start installed. Kinda threw me off for a minute, couldn't find the damn start switch!! Now it's in the cab...
I've noticed the older Dash 9's are getting retrofitted with the auto-start as well.. along with many of them getting distributed power. And the higher-numbered BC Rail units have CN-compatible distributed power radios now.. but the start switch is still in the carbody, no one-button start mod on those..
Rumour has it some of that the IC's in the 1000 series are going to get distributed power mods this year as well... first of the older SD70's to see DP. Maybe the CN ones will too...?
Kinda makes me wonder what the purpose of picking up those ex-UP Dash 8's is.. unless they're getting a bunch of upgrades as well..?
Saw one of the 5600's come through today, with the electronic fuel gauges, Witronix, video camera, and auto-start installed. Kinda threw me off for a minute, couldn't find the damn start switch!! Now it's in the cab...
I've noticed the older Dash 9's are getting retrofitted with the auto-start as well.. along with many of them getting distributed power. And the higher-numbered BC Rail units have CN-compatible distributed power radios now.. but the start switch is still in the carbody, no one-button start mod on those..
Rumour has it some of that the IC's in the 1000 series are going to get distributed power mods this year as well... first of the older SD70's to see DP. Maybe the CN ones will too...?
Kinda makes me wonder what the purpose of picking up those ex-UP Dash 8's is.. unless they're getting a bunch of upgrades as well..?