E-units - Southern practice

Tue Apr 9 15:20:53 EDT 2019

Interesting collection of head end equipment on the 2912 slide.
Roger HuberDeer Creek Locomotive Works 

    On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 2:15:22 PM CDT, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  

Southern did this … usually an E-7 or E-8 and either F-3a or FP-7.  Fairly common practice in the ‘60s.  Attached is a pic of an E-7 with FP-7 in 1966 (I think Train 42 was the northbound Pelican) and a pic of another northbound at Bristol about to hand off to the N&W.  The 2nd unit is an F-7.  I also have a pic of the Crescent in Mississippi with 3 E-8s and an FP-7 as 2nd unit.

Didn’t RF&P run E-8s in freight service lashups on an irregular basis?

Jim King

www.smokymountainmodelworks.com

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Jack is currently doing an “E and F Combo” project, for RR’s that ran E-Units and F-Units together regularly.  Maybe if RF&P used this practice, he would include them in his thinking.

Can anybody document such practice?

-Eric Bott

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A few years ago, Jack Vansworth at the Division Point was considering importing a series of E-8A diesels in brass.  I asked him about the possibility of importing the RF&P leased version in two road numbers.  He replied that if he "probably" went ahead with the E-8A project that he would "probably" do the leased RF&Ps.  That was several years ago and don't even know if the E-8A project is still on Jack's agenda. 

Bill King

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The N&W E-units in ACL and/or RF&P colors were very poor sellers. The society had a hard time getting rid of them.

Stephen Rineair

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Is there any chance the Society could re-issue the N&W E-units in ACL and/or RF&P colors using Walthers models in HO? There seemed to be popular and I'm sure others would like them too.

Roger Huber

Deer Creek Locomotive Works

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