What a rare photo op! Well done!
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Sweet! Thanks for sharing your great collection!
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Thanks for the nice photograph. Don't know that this was a total failure. SP subsequently purchased a farly large number of SD40T-2's ("snoots") equipped wth what we now know as distributed power. Not widely successful they were later used as ad hoc fuel savers whereby a "remote" would be cut into a head end consist and could be isolated when not needed.
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The SP SD40T-2's were radio-controlled much like the tested BN system, but without using specially-built radio cars. SP also had their GP40X' split between radio-control masters and receivers. In BN's method, the slave units had to be coupled in m.u. to the radio-equipped booster. Today's computer assisted distributed power systems are more sophisticated, allowing the control of several separated sets of power from a single control stand, without loss of contact in tunnels and mountainous territory.
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