Yesterday afternoon I Saw and actual CF7 in blue and Yellow with BNSF patch come through Vancouver Wa on a mixed frieght with a GP-50 and 53 any thoughts on where it was heading. I'm gonna try and get the pics developed soon.
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Hi YoHo, welcome to Trainboard I look forward to seeing pics of the CF7, I didn't realise BNSF still had any. They are a unique looking locomotive, to be sure!
Thanks for the welcome guys. I have some webspace that I KNOW allows remote linking so hopefully this will work. Anyway, as promised the the first two are of the CF-7. The thrid is just a nice shot of 3 SD-40-2s in 3 different paint schemes that I caught that same day. Since I kinda cheated to get these (print screen key) I don't know how the quality and size are. I should have the actual pictures reasonably soon then I will get scans
YoHo Sorry but the 1352 is a GP7, not a CF7. The CF7s were gone about ten years b/4 BNSF. They were all sold off to many shortlines. Will see if I can find a pic of one in Santa Fe paint.
For a good source of CF7 pix & descriptions both as ATSF & on various shortliines see: "CF7 Locomotives: From Cleburne to Everywhere" by Cary F. Poole, The Railroad Press, 1997. It gives a complete history of CF7s.
If it was coming through Vancouver on a grain unit then it was headed north to either Kalama or to Seattle. If I had to guess, I'd say Kalama due to the number of export elevators located there. The other slim possibility is south to Portland and the............(brainfart).......... um, big elevator at the Steel Bridge (I forget who owns it). Finally, it could be headed to Vancouver and the UGG terminal, in which case it should be hanging around the engine terminal there.
What the Santa Fe chopped the noses on GP7s the cabs do have a CF7 feel about them, but the sure fire way to tell is the lenght of the nose. Here's a great CF7 page: http://members.aol.com/JFuhrtrain01/CF7frames/CF7photos.htm
Okay, yeah, (Pulls out old Motive power Annual) That's a GP-7. Should of checked. It does have that CF7 feel to it. I didn't see it up there YEsterday, so I think it moved on.
Back in the mid to late 80s, I photographed several Santa Fe CF7s in the yard at Reading. It was very unusual to see Santa Fe locomotives around here, let alone CF7s. I have a great shots of #2068 (which probably is a low-nose GP-7) and #2590. If I remember correctly, three units were sold to the Blue Mountain and Reading, which used two for passenger excursions and one for parts. The others (there were 7 or 8 all totaled) were sold or scrapped. Sorry I don’t have these photos on the web, they are really good shots of standing locomotives.
