uhaul wrote:Snowy picture of 8847 and it sure is clean.
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This one was just put into service on 11/28/2007. Still nice and clean on the inside. This engine was part of the M39331 09 That I swapped with. My engineer let me run it for about 20 miles so that I could have the bragging rights at my terminal.
They are nice rides, somewhat comfortable. The conductors desk has no spot to store the orders, just a little clip to keep everything from falling. The reading lights look like microscopes mounted on top of the desk. The light swivels inside. One nice feature I like is that it has a 120vac plug right in the conductors desk. Whether these actually work or the CN disabled them is unknown. I usually carry my laptop with me but on this day I didn't. It would've come in handy because we sat at Madison ave on the IHB waiting to deliver the train to the UP at Proviso yard for 4 hours before we did. Dynamics worked pretty good, perhaps to good, at least compared to what I'm used to.
One draw back is that they are not built with a whisper cab. The engine was noisy as all hell. It was hard to talk and hear w/o raising our voices a little. I've been in much quieter cabs. The bell and horn were not overwhelmingly loud if the windows are open which is nice.
