[N&W] Re: GP-40 Question - "Storm Windows"

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Harry Bundy wrote (in response to my original question):
 > The so-called "storm windows" were installed every
 > November and taken off every April. This was written
 > into the labor contract for engineers. I'm not sure it
 > applied to engines in captive service on the Atlantic
 > and Pocahontas regions, so it's possible they weren't
 > applied to every engine during the winter season.
 > Jimmy Lisle indicated they were a pain.
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Harry,

Did this apply to the GP-40s, too? If I model, say the early fall, then I
could get away with leaving off the "storm windows" on my GP-40s? What
timeframe did this cover?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Kert Peterson
Fircrest, WA
kertp at sinclair.net
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"Original" N&W guys thought these things were laughable.  It was the NKP 
and WAB guys that had them in their contracts.

In the Summertime, these things cut air-circulation in the cab down to 
nearly nil.

But then, if you were switching in Buffalo or Cleveland or Detroit, where 
the wind-chill might be 40 below zero, and hand your head hanging out the 
window most of the night, a "bay window" was probably a luxury, not a laugh.

-- Abram Burnett, Pius10th at aol.com
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They first showed up on the N&W as NKP and Wab requirements after that
merger. The first ones I came into contact with were on the DM&IR engines
N&W leased in 1962 or 1963 or so. They were a pain, indeed.

EdKing
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 >The so-called "storm windows" were installed every
 >November and taken off every April.

Harry,

Around here they most definitely were not taken off every April! We had to 
suffer with the things through the summer and boy was it hot in the cab 
with those things installed. Someone has stated that they were applied 
because of an agreement with the NKP boys so they wouldn't get their little 
heads cold in the winter. I don't know. If so it was another jerk-ass move 
along with the killer cabs they sent down this way!

Jimmy Lisle