Hi, sorry this isn't locomotive related. I was in Toronto last week and visited the Royal Ontario Museum: there is an exhibit on (I don't know whether it is...
I cam across this group via Google(specifically www.geocities.com/wbd641/U25toU36.html)and saw the cross-sections ofthe GE FDL series prime movers. Would I be...
The GE FDL has cross-flow heads; the intake manifolds are outboard on the engine, with the exhaust in the center of the Vee. GE claimed better scavenging and...
I should have registered side-by-side valves in the head, which is usually a sign of a cross-flow configuration (though someone buit a unit with valves in two...
Hello, all, I just joined this Yahoo Group, found it via Will Davis' "Locomotive Enthusiasts" web site. Great info! I'm looking for a public domain photo of...
... #1900. ... The web page that I would like to update, is this one: http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest/contest_sep_2006_ingalls_diesel_ info.shtml (sorry...
Thanks for the kind words - and that's a really great write-up on the Ingalls unit. I'm sure I've never seen that much information on the unit before in terms...
Starting with the Dash-9 (introduced late 1993), many GE six-axle locomotives have used a truck dubbed "Roller Blade" style by railfans. (This is the...
Update. I have now seen twice (in two different Australian railfan magazines: articles I think by different authors (but see below)) the statement that the...
Hi Would like to find a movie ofthis loco in action. Anything out there ? How do I contact the HO modeller Tom Van den Bosch mentioned in the articles and...
... there ? ... Hi, Charlie, I don't know of a good movie of this loco, unfortunately. If you send me your email, I'll forward your contact request to Tom Van ...
Hi John Thanks for your email. Appreciated. My email is charlie@... Charlie New Zealand ... From: John Sing To: LocomotiveEnthusiasts@yahoogroups.com...
The first diesel hood units in America were... ? Well, Westinghouse appears to have gotten the idea first: its first "visibility cab" switchers were built in...
The first diesel hood units in America were... ? Westinghouse appears to have gotten the idea first: its first "visibility cab" switchers (with a carbody that...
Allen, we don't have a lot of info on these at all other than one or two of the sources you named and that I-R sales brochure. These are pretty early units,...
The December 2008-January 2009 issue of the Australian magazine "Motive Power" has an article about the latest GE locomotives (built by United Group --...
Will-- I wasn't looking for any specific information. It's just that I've long had a (purely abstract: one of the things I kick myself over is not going to...
Friends, one of the byproducts of our continuing effort to get a locomotive book written has been the accumulation of a number of GE locomotive manuals. While...
I'm brand new here as of yesterday and very much looking forward to your posts. Like many of us my first locomotive was a Lionel then over the years my...
Hi Betsy, Many FL9s have been scrapped, but not all of them. Two of them now reside in Maine on the Maine Eastern Railroad, and I know there are a few others...
Richard and R.T. Thank you both! I had Googled FL9s and missed that website. The reason it was so important to me is that I used to commute to Grand...
Go to the excellent site by George Elwood: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ ..and look in the New Haven, Penn Central and Conrail sections for the FL9 photos....
Hi all, I was going to ask Elizabeth, who had asked about info on the fate of the remaining FL9's, if she needed or wanted any additional information about...
Amazon has a number of new and used books on locomotives, some very expensive but many reasonable. I'd love some recommendations from anyone who has read any...
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