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GN Electrics-Eye Candy for TAC

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#21

Any of you here got that incredible book, ‘Great Northern Railway’ by Charles and Dorothy Wood?

You have?

Right.

Turn to page 237.

The engineer leaning nonchalantly out of the cab of #5012 is ‘Little Mich’, the grandfather of a dear friend who lives in Eugene OR, and who gave me this wonderful book in its presentation cover one Christmas.

I have a deep and abiding love of these ugly old sparkies that is totally unreasonable and hard to understand, but there it is.

Steve, thank you for this thread - some great pics and comments, even from those for whom an electric traction unit is not really a locomotive as we understand it, Jim.

Best to all

tac
OVGRS

#22

Dan Padova said:

Steve Featherkile said:

This is 5011, the Y Class locomotive that jb was referring to that was rebuilt using the cabs of two wrecked F 3 locomotives.

http://www.gngoat.org/gn_y1a_wenatchee.jpg

I wonder what that protrusion is on the hood?

The protrusion on the hood is the lash-up connection later fitted to all Y-1 locomotives in the 30’s, and was referred to as a 'stinger. The locos ran on 11,000V DC, and loco switchyard crew were regularly electrocuted when connecting loco up in their usual multiple lash-ups. Getting down off one of these locos in any configuration was never a a step-down option like you see on other railroads with less ‘exciting’ ways of propelling their locos.

You jumped for your life on the Cascade route…

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

#23

OK, so I got my Covered Wagons mixed up. I’m old, you know. Doesn’t matter. I’ll take a wagon over an electric box cab any day. :smiley:

#24

John Bouck said:

OK, so I got my Covered Wagons mixed up. I’m old, you know. Doesn’t matter. I’ll take a wagon over an electric box cab any day. :smiley:

No worries, its allowed. After all, you are a narrow gauge steam guy. :wink:

#25

Steve Featherkile said:

No worries, its allowed. After all, you are a narrow gauge steam guy. :wink:

Hey, I resemble that remark.