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| Author: | MilwaukeeroadMatt [ Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A few small visitors |
Spotted at NTW on the no hump track was NSPX SW1200 #1 (ex-MILW) Does anyone know this unit is/was assinged? Bayport has #3 and Becker has an ILS unit. Also on the rear of the NTWGAL was WRIX SW1200 566 (ex-AMTK). Just another reason why I love the main line action of the Twin Cities you never know what is going to come past your camera 
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| Author: | CMST.P.&OLakeElmo [ Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
Maybe it's from the nereby Riverside plant, Xcel is planning to convert all Twin Cities plants, except for Bayport, to natural gas. And the unit is leaving. |
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| Author: | MilwaukeeroadMatt [ Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
Nope Riverside has the #90 and she's still there the conversion wont be complete until some time next year, here are the shots plus a few others NSPX 1 WRIX 566 What happens when a coupler fails? this Plus a long shove ride back to the yard from the Ford plant Remember the post long ago about locomotive windows being bullet proof.... well nope there not, thank goodness no one was hurt |
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| Author: | 8years2Go [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
The windows are shatter proof. They spider web like you see, but don't fall apart. I've had rocks thrown at me, slingshots launching taconite pellets, been shot at, and had a boulder dropped on my head end going under a bridge. I have never seen a window shatter. |
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| Author: | ottergoose [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
| Author: | willard1346 [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
Those windows had a hammer taken to them. I had to run it hostling. All the impact points were right in the middle of each window... |
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| Author: | frontierfan [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
Will do you know any details of what happend, no one I have asked seems to know |
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| Author: | 8years2Go [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:28 pm ] |
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| Author: | brahamfireman [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:36 pm ] |
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| Author: | busyemt [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:52 pm ] |
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Isn't it called "tempering?" Are locomotive windshields thicker than those on automobiles? |
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| Author: | 8years2Go [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:06 pm ] |
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| Author: | john [ Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:30 pm ] |
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The SOO 6059 windshield is still in bad shape.... |
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| Author: | frontierfan [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:21 am ] |
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as far as ive heard they cant get the replacement windows anymore |
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| Author: | john [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
If they can't get the glass for it it would force it into being a trailing locomotive for the rest of its career. That's a sad fate for that old beast. 
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| Author: | Chris [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A few small visitors |
I have a hard time believing that the CP cannot find replacment windows, nor "custom cut" some replacments. (sarcastic comment following)  Perhaps the purchase of the DM&E has tapped all cashflow reserves that windows cannot be purchased? 
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