Unpainted C&NW units.

Are the Dash 9 units the only ones left in active service?

Changed the title of your post there dude. Didnt know quite what you ment, i believe alot of there motors are still being used, i get one about every month thats been painted. As far as the ones that havent been painted yet... but have been patched theres still a hand full.

C44-9W 8646 and 8701 are the only unpatched CNW units left. There are still some patched units around.

Doug

There isn't any unpatched CNW units as of 01/01/08. Heres a link to the 2008 roster: http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/attachments/locorost.pdf

CNW C44-9W 8646 and 8701 are unpatched. They usually can be found in Iowa and Illinois.

Doug

UPRR engineer wrote:There isn't any unpatched CNW units as of 01/01/08. Heres a link to the 2008 roster: http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/attachments/locorost.pdf

Sorry dude, saw one the other day...


CNW8701 has a note on it "DO NOT PAINT"

CNW 8646 8701 C44-9W 2

Guess there are two still, skipped right over it when i looked at the roster.

I don't know the status anymore, but there was a set powering coal trains that would come through Lawrence, KS, with a UP unit leading, and a trailing CNW unit (patched) with a SP unit (patched) providing DPU at the rear. Omaha didn't know it but we got our own heritage units every week out here... I haven't seen that set together for a while, although there's a few SP (patched) GE's that make it through on coal trains now and then.

Going around now that the two unpatched Dash 9's that have spent time stored at IRM have been donated to them.

If true, they'll be the first preserved Dash 9's.

Edit: False alarm, it sounds like.

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Sorry about that.