This locomotive came through our subdivision (Frisco SW) frequently in the early 1980s. Some creative hostler took white chalk and deftly drew a cab window and a jolly engineer on the right hand side. If anyone has a photograph of that, I would love to see it one more time:
photo credit appears on the side.
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Wow. I'd never even heard of a B unit with a cab outline like that before!
That is really interesting. I'd love to hear the story behind the conversion. A few more pictures found here: http://condrenrails.com/BN/GP38-2Bs.html
Would be simple to model.
Found the following info SLSF 660 became BN2600( The unit was damaged in 1980, and when repaired it was converted to a cabless unit by Springfield Shops. , BN 600B then BNSF 2136(GP38AC) some where it was converted back to a cab unit.
Source http://archive.trainpix.com/BN...RBLD/GP38B/INDEX.HTM
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