Definitely not the original trucks. Most likely there was a swapout before the trip to the boneyard.
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| Posted by FSWood on November 15, 2019 | |
Speculating on the trucks, I'm guessing that when it was designated to be sent to the dealer the railroad swapped out its AAR switcher trucks they wanted to keep to re-use for the Blunt trucks they wanted to dispose of, probably with the goal of retaining a more standardized group of trucks.
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Thanks for finding and posting this picture! The different trucks--Alco's Blunt trucks versus Baldwin's use of AAR Type A trucks--is interesting. One wonders if CGW preferred the Westinghouse traction motors on Baldwin power as compared to the GE motors on the Alco trucks.
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A Baldwin with Blunt trucks - that's not something one sees every day!
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| Posted by FSWood on November 16, 2019 | |
Remembered having a 1984 book on Baldwin locos published by Kalmbach, Diesels from Eddystone, by Gary Dolzall & Stephen Dolzall. Turns out that CGW 40 is listed not as an S-12 but a DS-4-4-1000 with the 606SC engine from a July 1949 order for units numbered 34 to 41 with construction numbers 74225-74232. Text pages covering the DS-4-4-1000 don't make any mention of alternate trucks that I can see scanning the pages right quick, so it was most likely constructed with the standard AAR switcher trucks.
And now for something completely different: curiosity led me to put the 1984 book's $18.95 cover price in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator web page; using June 1984 as original time the book's price would be $47.03 in October 2019.
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| Posted by Reynold on October 8, 2021 | |
I have seen other photos of 40 in 1967 and it has normal AAR switcher trucks like its sister switchers.
I have seen this exact photo on eBay twice with a 1969 June 28 date instead. This would jive better with seeing photos of sisters 38 and 39 with fresh paint in simple scheme in 1966 Nov and 1968.
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