deez
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Midland Belt Railway
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Post by deez on Jul 3, 2012 17:41:11 GMT -5
My Midland Belt freelance RR purchased 5 CF-7's and 11 SD26 locomotives from the Santa Fe in 1985. The CF-7's were all in terrible shape but purchased cheap. Since the MB operates 97% turbocharged locomotives. The CF-7's were rebuilt using retired GP20 turbo 567's and their long hoods. Here is a few photos of the project yet to be finnished.   I have some more fine tunning to do but this is the rough idea for this fun little project. The dynamic brakes make them more useful on the Midland Belt also. Their will be 3 built like this while the other 2 will have non dynamics with rooftop air tanks. All will have GP20 hoods.  |
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Post by iomalley on Jul 3, 2012 18:16:52 GMT -5
you certainly like hi cube 40 footers!
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deez
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Midland Belt Railway
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Post by deez on Jul 3, 2012 21:15:31 GMT -5
Yes I do love the 40' hi cubes. My favorite box car. Since my layout is small I try to run Mostly 40' cars to make the train look long.
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Post by gnsteve on Jul 4, 2012 0:49:32 GMT -5
Wow, rebuilt rebuilds. I'm looking forward to updates and completion.
Steve
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Post by poweredby251 on Jul 7, 2012 11:14:19 GMT -5
The perfect industry for the 40' hi cube is an appliance factory. The 40 footers were designed for heavy, stackable appliances (refrigerators, stoves, washer/dryers, etc). This kind of industry would use a large pool of cars from several roads used in dedicated service, and would load quite a few daily. John Yes I do love the 40' hi cubes. My favorite box car. Since my layout is small I try to run Mostly 40' cars to make the train look long. |
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deez
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Midland Belt Railway
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Post by deez on Jul 8, 2012 12:47:24 GMT -5
I'd like to get some of the Hi tech details 40' hi cube kits also. 40' hi cubes are the coolest box cars!
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Post by Packer on Jul 18, 2012 17:21:09 GMT -5
I like the 40' high-cubes as well.
Are you really building 5 of these?
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