I do not think it was an option a lot of railroads had this feature and kept it even after rebuilding. Rock Island was one of them and they were very strapped for cash but it sets their motors apart from the CNW's when looking at the ones aquired by the CNW.
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I do not believe this is a B&O locomotive.
1 BO did not have any 66hundred seires GP 9's till after merger with Chessie system.
and thiis appears to be a GP 7 no dynamic brake "EARS"
i am retired from CSX and hired on the BO in 1968.
This may have been a "6400 sseries passenger locomotive.
as for the encasement over the headlights i can not give any answer
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Follow this link http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo6618goc.jpg is this the same unit in her prime ?
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RowdyRailRider is correct. A easy way to tell between the B&O and C&O examples is the location of the Cat, if the Cat is on the longhood nose it is B&O, if its on the shorthood its ex-C&O.
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Oh, it's B&O. It's a GP-9. The presence or absence of dynamic brake blisters is irrelevant. There where many GP-7s built with dynamic brakes, check SOU, WP, RDG etc. The big tip-off that this is a 9 is the small louver under the radiator at the far end of the unit. GP-7s had two tall sets of louvers as built, and two louvers under the cab while this one does not. The best way to tell after rebuilds etc is to look under the hood. Round access covers indicate a 567C engined GP-9, square covers indicate 567BC GP-7. Be careful particularly with SCL and it's successors. They rebuilt some SD-35s to hump units and installed BCs! Their GP-16 are mostly BCs but some are Cs. I believe the roster gurus will back me up that C&O had no GP-9s w/o dynamic brakes.
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I believe those are classification lights at the number boards
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