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 Posted - September 10 2012 : 10:17:15 AM
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Hey guys:
Thought someone on here might find this interesting....
http://www.okthepk.ca/news/2012090701a.htm
Enjoy,
Gareth
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Edited by - romcat on September 10 2012 10:26:40 AM
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Posted - September 10 2012 : 11:57:53 AM
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That's pretty cool. It's neat seeing the tank car in the black/red CN paint 
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Posted - September 10 2012 : 12:23:43 PM
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Now that is interesting! A whole new idea of modeling a tank car "tender"!!!!!!!! 
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Posted - September 10 2012 : 1:26:57 PM
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| actually BN used to use tank cars as tenders the reporting marks were BNT
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Posted - September 10 2012 : 1:59:04 PM
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Ben,
CSX had tank tenders between ALL of there Dash 8's and Dash 9's (which were one and the same on the outside!) To keep the fuel tanks topped off at all times!
A lesson:
When GE first came out wit hthe Dash 8 series locomotives, They were well liked by CSX......THEN, GE mentioned the up and coming Dash 9's.......CSX jumped, Made orders on the Dash 9's before they were even completed! SO, what had happened with this is CSX got Dash 8's that look like Dash 8's, 4,000 HP and then the 4,400 HP Dash 9's were ordered before they were ready and GE took the Dash 8 chassis, and put in Dash 9 internals......
CSX classification? C40-8/C40-8W, and then theC40-8/C44-8W! The last order of Dash 9's CSX got, were fully Dash 9 details inside and out.
The first 2 orders I believe were Dash 8's on the outside Dash 9's on the inside!
[LOL} Funny, huh? BUT at that time, they all were fitted with Fuel tenders from 62 foot tank cars!
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Posted - September 13 2012 : 04:13:33 AM
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quote:actually BN used to use tank cars as tenders the reporting marks were BNT
Originally posted by microbusss - September 10 2012 : 1:26:57 PM
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I owned a Kodak 110 camera... they don't do well in winter-cold conditions... why my input?
I shot many BN trains/locomotives with the LP Gas tender between the two SD40-2's... 
unfortunately, my camera and film became... shot!  couldn't even get the 110 roll of film out in one piece...
That CN tank looks awesome! Any chance of a full on-side photo?
John
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Posted - September 14 2012 : 12:31:34 AM
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BN Edition:
-Gareth
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-Aristotle
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Edited by - romcat on September 14 2012 12:37:05 AM
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Posted - September 14 2012 : 9:34:35 PM
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Don't know about the CN version, but I seem to recall that BN stopped operating their tenders between locomotives because they couldn't handle the stresses.
Glenn
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Posted - September 14 2012 : 9:53:44 PM
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| 800 miles divided by 20,000 gallons of NG is NOT very good MPGs
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Posted - September 17 2012 : 9:10:50 PM
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No Ben, it doesn't sound like good MPG to me either! WOW Only 800 miles? You almost have to wonder why they even thought it be a good conversion to do on a locomotive if thats all it got.....I wonder what the diesel fuel MPG was for the original prime mover at 20,000 Gallons of diesel?
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