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Here's a newspaper article that tells about the wreck that occurred on the C&NW on this day 72 years ago. https://www.wxpr.org/podcast/a-northwoo ... nN9j8UtHp4

Ed in Kentucky

Possibly there was a need for suitable mainline power to relieve tired F units going in for major shopping. The Erie's GP9s were equipped with dynamic brakes, so would be compatible with F units in mainline service.

Ed in Kentucky

I found this 1947 photo of the 4113 last week. It's not a full profile, but is a better angle to see how this unit is different. Take the F3 challenge, download the photo from WorthPoint. Draw a straight line from the front corner of the cab window directly to the rail. Notice where that line inters...

There is a poor photo of the two wrecked units in the February 1960 Trains magazine. The photo is evidently by the author Don Wood. See page 40. Ed in Kentucky

I remember that "Trains" cover story! ... One feature mentioned, as I recall, was that the cab (on the semi-streamlined first generation DRGW diesel hydraulics) was apparently made of a heavier gauge of sheet metal than that used on contemporary U.S. diesels, and that this led to a quiete...

Illinois Central had two E9As on order in the spring of 1954. See EMD order #2062 at http://www.trainweb.org/emdloco/19300.htm The original serials of the IC order were 19371-19372. When IC experienced a wreck in May 1954 a wrecked E6A was quickly traded in to EMD for one of the E9As already on orde...

There is an engine anomaly in Milwaukee's EMC order E298 for a dozen SW1s. These SW1s were built between March and April of 1940. The road numbers are 1613-1624. All have the same wiring diagram 8049492. Eleven of the 567 blocks range in serial from 948-959, the exception is the block installed in ...

This is what Don Strack wrote me back in March after I sent him the wreck photo and the ICC report: "I suspect that the wrecked 4084C was sent to EMD in 1951 and rebuilt. C&NW 4084C --> C&NW 415 --> C&NW 400 (2nd) C&NW 4084C... https://utahrails.net/cnw/cnw07.php#f7a_4072a C&...

Message sent to C&NWHS: "Is someone looking in to the true history of this F unit. The first one was destroyed in a head on collision at Rhinelander, WI on July 4, 1951. And no one has been able to find the rebuilder or site. There are several threads about this wreck online. I understand y...

All the rosters I have show the same frame/EMD build number 8573 for 4084C from 1949, renumbered 415 in 1972, renumbered 400(2) in 1982 and added to the executive train fleet. It was retired in 1985 after the rear frame failed in 1984. The business fleet roster by Joe Piersen shows it was sold to K...

We are 71 years past the actual wreck and there is no correct history of this unit. The unit identity C&NW 4084C 1st was destroyed in a head on collision on July 4, 1951. This same thread is on the EMD Forum of this site. Eolesen said follow up on this type of question would be easier to facilit...

A new underframe equals a new unit. The fact that nothing can be found on this unit's repair suggests that rail historians never saw the photo of the 4084C with the broken underframe behind the cab. Or didn't understand the true meaning of what happened. There is also the very distinct possibility t...

See 1943, 103rd Street facility: https://pullman-museum.org/theCompany/timeline.html

Ed in Kentucky

Well no, the Defense Plant Corporation did not exist in 1946. Its assets had been folded back into the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as of July 1, 1945. See https://utahrails.net/industries/defense-plant-corp.php The building EMD leased from the RFC in 1946 had been used in manufacturing aircra...

Does anyone have an exact date when EMD's Plant 2 in Pullman, Illinois began operations? The December 1968 Trains article, "How the "Home of the Diesel Locomotive" builds diesels" by Jerry A. Pinkepank, pp 26-32 has a partial answer. On page 28 Pinkepank writes that EMD leased th...