Are those spark arrestors on the long hood?
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| Posted by cnhog on May 9, 2013 | |
I believe the GT logo was done in error at Battle Creek where it was painted.
It was then re-logoed (is that a word?) at St Albans after delivery.So you might have a very rare shot there.
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It was ordered by Grand Trunk to dieselize the GT Island Pond to Portland in 1956, and while they all wandered to GTW or even DW&P she was on Grand Trunk's dime. She worked there into the mid 80's. She does look rather nice, indeed.
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CN's U.S. operations often swapped motive power, that's how the Central Vermont came to have Alco RS11s on their roster, transferred from the DW&P. The green paint scheme on the 4450, was a CV-only practice, and the GTW did not have any GP9s with dynamic brakes, while CV and GT did have d/b equipped freight power. So this is indeed a rare shot, of a mistakenly-lettered GT unit, transferred to CV, in CV green paint, that also should be lettered CV.
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To David Ellison, yes those are spark arrestors, very common on CN family of GP7/9 engines. I would almost dare to say that they are standard equipment on these models.
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