| Posted by Mike on December 1, 2012 | |
SWEET! A modern BL20-2!
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Kind of strange looking to me, wish the cab roof wasn't lower than the long hood. But nevertheless, something different, thanks for posting and sharing!
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I'l take it. Nice shot.
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Apparently centering the lettering on the hood was going to cost extra design hours.
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| Posted by Renee on December 1, 2012 | |
Awesome! At first glance I thought it was one of those Milwaukee Road rebuilds, but then I noticed lots of details that would only be on a newer model. Love to see about three or four of these on a grain train!
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Do you have any details about what the "-ECO" actually means? Just curious.
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Nice looking unit. Let's hope we see many more. B-B units from EMD again are welcome. CSX might like to copy that cab and short hood. Hint, hint.
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Nice pic for a November day. I don't see any marker lights. Either they are very small or they're missing.
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| Posted by on December 4, 2012 | |
Was this built from a previous locomotive or from scratch?
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| Posted by Mike on December 4, 2012 | |
Marker lights are a thing of the past. Nothing on these units from the frame up is original.
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| Posted by on December 4, 2012 | |
What's with that wavy handrail?
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| Posted by on December 6, 2012 | |
That thing is actually pretty neat looking. Im just gonna be glad to see units in fresh paint. I hope Hunter puts out a memo to wash power more than once a decade, as CP did before.
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Were these rebuilt from GP60s?
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No sir...the frame and bodies are brand new. They do have some similar features but are basically brand new with a limited number of components salvaged from much older GPs.
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Interesting! I wonder of a GP60 in the place to start in HO scale though..? Hmmm
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| Posted by on February 14, 2013 | |
I just worked as a conductor on one of these. The crews will like them because they are new and clean, but the novelty will wear off once they get trashed. They don't have much pulling power, we could hardly pull ten loads. The independent brake is weak (27 lbs.) so it didn't stop when you wanted while bumping cars. They are super noisy like an SD70 and they rattle so much you can't hear yourself think. Also, there is a step down when you walk out of the conductor door. No other engines have this. I almost fell off the walkway the first time I walked out the door because I forgot about it. But the most annoying thing is that the horn is directly above the rear engineer side steps, which is where a switchman spends the bulk of their time riding on an engine. Every time we reached a crossing, the horn was going off right in my ear. The engines could have been great, but they couldn't decide whether they wanted to build a road or switching unit, so they turned out to be lame.
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