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Subject: Re: Owen Sound/Orangeville Sub Motive Power
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 20:29:01 -0400
From: Paul Tatham <ptatham@...>
Organization: University of Guelph
To: CP Bruce Branches Discussion List <CP_BRUCE@...>
Ron Bouwhuis wrote:
RS18's were common - but there again I'm not good at identifying
differences between RS10"s & 18's.
Without getting into issues of doors and louvres, I believe one of the easier > spotting differences involved the MultiMark: RS10 on the short hood; RS18 on > the long hood.
That painting difference was due to the RS10's being setup for long hood
forward - IIRC an RS10 was just an RS3 with full height hoods. The
same method could be used for the maroon and gray scheme - RS10's had
the gray "front" on the long hood end.
Sure made it easy spotting which was which though!
Anyone know why the RS10's and RS18's were configured this way? I note
that other original long hood forward locos such as the FM's H-24-66 and
H-16-44 were originally long hood forward but were soon converted to
short hood forward.
Scanning Rail Canada Vol 3 it looks like other than RS10's only the
RS2's and 3's (which having a shorter hood had better long hood forward
visibility) and the Baldwin DRS-4-4-1000 units remained long hood
forward into CP Rail days. (That is of course excluding the end cab
"switcher" type locos with no short hood - bit too little collision
protection there!)
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