Nice to see someone that believes the CF7 is still a viable locomotive. My favorite locomotive is GP-7 in modified that is still has the factory cab heaters. Beautiful thing about the GP-7 cab heaters is in the summer you opened the manual operated shutters for number one fan and shut off the fan with the factory supplied switch in the cab. On a hot summer day you selected low fan speed and instead of heat you got nice cool air over the entire width of the engineers or fireman's window after it cooled down the heater ducts which the first time I did it on a hot sunny August day my conductor and brakeman thought I had gone off the deep end. After I explained my reasoning and they saw me open the shutters they said we'll give you 5 minutes then off they go. 8 minutes later they were still on and I asked did they want them off? The brakeman looked at me and said I've worked and sweated on these engines for over 17 years and I never have been as comfortable on one as I am today. Who knew and it took a engineer rail buff to figure it out. Two days later the railroad wanted to swap out the old GP-7's for SW-1500's and I inquired of the night Trainmaster as well as the road foreman to keep the GP-7's in yard service. They weren't planing I found out to retire them just wanted to use more modern switchers. After listening to my arguments about keeping the GP-7's in our yard the SS-1500's showed up in force and all but one GP-7 were sent west. Yes using a geep is a little slower getting it moving but once it loads up it works as well as a Sw-1500 but the primary reason I wanted the GP-7? Far better engine brakes. The SW-1500's
Nice shots. If memory serves correct when i was a child, 49 used to work the leesburg FMID branch out of wildwood.
Nice to see someone that believes the CF7 is still a viable locomotive. My favorite locomotive is GP-7 in modified that is still has the factory cab heaters. Beautiful thing about the GP-7 cab heaters is in the summer you opened the manual operated shutters for number one fan and shut off the fan with the factory supplied switch in the cab. On a hot summer day you selected low fan speed and instead of heat you got nice cool air over the entire width of the engineers or fireman's window after it cooled down the heater ducts which the first time I did it on a hot sunny August day my conductor and brakeman thought I had gone off the deep end. After I explained my reasoning and they saw me open the shutters they said we'll give you 5 minutes then off they go. 8 minutes later they were still on and I asked did they want them off? The brakeman looked at me and said I've worked and sweated on these engines for over 17 years and I never have been as comfortable on one as I am today. Who knew and it took a engineer rail buff to figure it out. Two days later the railroad wanted to swap out the old GP-7's for SW-1500's and I inquired of the night Trainmaster as well as the road foreman to keep the GP-7's in yard service. They weren't planing I found out to retire them just wanted to use more modern switchers. After listening to my arguments about keeping the GP-7's in our yard the SS-1500's showed up in force and all but one GP-7 were sent west. Yes using a geep is a little slower getting it moving but once it loads up it works as well as a Sw-1500 but the primary reason I wanted the GP-7? Far better engine brakes. The SW-1500's
Thanks airing the outstanding video.Bliss
This is my local short-line. One of my favorites!
I live by one of their railroad tracks
RIP to those old B36-7 units.
Good video