At first glance, it looks like a Dash-2 cab grafted on a GP9, but the fuel tank looks more like it would go on a Dash-2 Geep. More likely, it looks like a GP9 hood was grafted on a Dash-2 Geep frame and cab. The prime mover looks like it's a later 567 (round ports on the sides), non-turbocharged (two bucket-covered stacks). Or a 645? A real head scratcher. (researching this, I discovered one can buy an EMD 567 V16 engine on eBay... not a good idea to sneak into the house unbeknownst to the missus... )
Well-now I’ve got a prototype photo to use the next time I weather a boxcar. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's a Battle Creek GP-9, The GTW did a thorough job replacing the cabs, fuel tanks and whatnot. I think it's a nice engine ,or at least was. The 567C was found to have a couple of bent rods so we are changing all of them, the wheels are total junk so we have to change all of them too. its a project and right now the locomotive is quite naked.
Wow... that engine has quite a history. So it was a GTW GP9 (something I can relate to ), with nearly everything replaced with something else save for the frame, trucks and the engine hood (including contents). Now you're doing some major surgery on top of all that... Heck, I might even try it myself now that train shows are sputtering back to life up here. In my mad scientist's lab, I shall create... Frankenloco!
Found where they moved my old friend. It is really in sad shape now. Still in Luling, Texas but a few miles away from when it was a diner there along Interstate 10. Back a few years ago. The number board off of it that is in my collection. Pre-WWII Pullman built Santa Fe Diner. Built for relief service on Super Chief. As it looks today.
The abuse started right after the Santa Fe sold it to Sunny Look's restaurant in Houston in 1968 who gutted it for use as a dining room adjacent to the restaurant. The restaurant eventually donated it to the Houston Gulf Coast Chapter NRHS Museum. The car was not in good shape at that time because of the "Pullman Rot” behind the stainless steel siding and the trucks were destroyed because the restaurant had the suspension in the trucks welded up to prevent movement when in use. The museum was salvaging parts off of it to restore other Pullman built cars before we sold it to someone for use as a roadside diner in Waelder, Texas. It was called the Chew Chew Lounge. It did not last long there and it ended up in a scrap yard. The car then popped up again as part of a road side diner off of Interstate 10 at Highway 183 outside of Luling, Texas. It has since been moved to its present location off I 10 at Highway 80 in Luling. The car was the first light weight diner ordered from Pullman by the Santa Fe and was used to provide backup for the all Budd built Super Chief before W.W.II. Santa Fe did not buy any more Pullman diners until it re-equipped the Super Chief in the early 50's. The car then was used in pool service or being assigned to various trains like the Texas Chief.
That's interesting, concerning Luling, TX. There's also a Luling, LA (I live in Metairie, LA, immediately adjacent to New Orleans). Those are the only 2 towns named Luling in the US. Hmm... on a side note, there are five towns in China named Luling...
I caught the Ozashiki 485 series "Hana" this afternoon as it passed through my local station. It must have been somewhere closer to Tokyo and was headed back a little further north running empty. I found a website that said the use it for your groups. Big windows all down the sides, with tables and chairs in the middle of the coaches. Every one the same. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any shots of the interior, just the one end. Also, we paused along the Chuo line right next to a turnout. Last is a shot of the monorail in Tachikawa, which is a “small” outer suburb of Tokyo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
