Home | Date Photographed4 December 1998 |
UP locomotives at the Proviso yard.
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Chicago & North Western 7033 GM EMD SD50 diesel-electric locomotive running lite in the locomotive yard just east of the Locomotive Maintenance Facility in the Proviso (Melrose Park, Illinois) rail yard. CNW 7033, CNW, GM EMD SD50, CNW locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 4 December 1998 at Proviso locomotive yard by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [railfan/1998/11/98a04d16.jpg] NEW 29 December 1999 |
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CNW 7033, model SD50, built 12/85, builder number 847049-34, C&NW paint scheme SYb [Safety yellow; "Sunburst" yellow, with Sans Serif block lettering, no sill stripe], renumber planned to UP 5093. [Source: The Final North Western Motive Power Roster. Courtesy of The Run of the Ge's, The Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Library of Congress catalog card number 95-83545, 1995, page 86.]
C&NW 7033: Builder's Date: Dec 1985, Builder's Number: 847049-34. EMD SD50, 35 units, C-C, 16-654F3B engine, 62:15 gear ratio, 3,600 horsepower, 390,000 pounds operating weight. Equipped with Automatic Train Control and Pacesetter speed control, for slow speed loading of unit coal trains. Equipped with Union Pacific Coded Cab Signals, for use on Union Pacific lines. Equipped with dynamic braking. EMD order number 847049. [courtesy of Diesels of the Chicago & North Western, Paul K Withers, roster by Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-07-0, 1995.]
C&NW 7033 was built in December 1985, GM EMD SD50, builder number 847049-34. Union Pacific plans to renumber C&NW 7033 to UP 5093. Equipped with C&NW Automatic Train Control. Equipped with Pacesetter speed control, for slow-speed loading of unit coal trains. Upon becoming UP units, all ex-C&NW SD50s were als rebuilt to SD50Ms, reducing their horsepower from 3,600 to 3,500 and improving their cooling system, including the installation of eight-blade cooling fans. [courtesy of Union Pacific Locomotive Directory, Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-16-8, 1998]
CNW 7033: freight locomotive, EMD SD50, 3,600 hp. [courtesy of Roster of UPRR Locomotive Ownership, January 1, 1999.]
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