Cold here this morning with ice and snow everywhere. Reminded me I have this old photo in my Rail Images files. View from Tower 17 in Rosenberg looking NW. On the right, a southbound Santa Fe train waits its turn to proceed through the interlocker. In the center of the photo, a down utility pole with sagging ice covered lines. On the left, in the distance one can make out the fuzzy image of a lighted lens and slightly inclined semaphore arm indicating clear track to the west on the SP. Probably December 1924 as there was ice and snow all over the area then.
NREX 227 looks like a former CP unit with the tubing over the radiator. You can see something similar on CP 6068:
Sunday catches CP 7014-MidDPU on 474. CP 7048 on B70. Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
I was just wondering the same, what is that for? Never seen that. Looks like the last side doors have louvers as well for cooling.
Great stuff, Buddy! Gents, Alberta and Saskatchewan get every bit as cold as the QNSL area--it might be a CP-specific modification. I wish I knew, though!
It looks like the same option used by EL on their SD45-2s with the extra-large 5000 gallon tanks. The expanded tank displaced the air tanks to a location beneath the radiators at the end of the hood. The louvers are indeed for cooling. The former QNSL letters are just barely visible on the side of the hood. One can see QN just before the NREX patch, which obliterates the SL.
Today at Annville, PA. Two 2020 products of the NS Dash9 rebuilding program at Wabtec-Ft. Worth lead NS 26E, bound for Morrisville. This little surprise was along for the ride.
