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Rob Leese posted:

What's fun about this locomotive is that you can pull a hodge-podge of CB&Q, NP, and GN (already manufactured) cars and be precisely accurate for a pre-Amtrak passenger train.

March 1970 to May 1971 produced some eye catching consists.

Even early Amtrak would count during the time cars needed to be repainted.  Throwing in some Amtrak cars would be interesting.  The BN E units were used for a while on commute ttains out of Chicago Union.

bigtruckpete posted:

Also, once the portholes went away I believe they became E9s. At that point the nose striping also became orange and white. 

These units ran on the Metra until 1991-1993. 

21 BN E8's were rebuilt and upgraded to E9's by Morrison-Knudsen in 1973.  Another 4 were rebuilt by M-K in 1978.  They received 645EC engines and Detroit Diesel HEP units at the time of rebuild.

All were retired in1992.

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:
bigtruckpete posted:

Also, once the portholes went away I believe they became E9s. At that point the nose striping also became orange and white. 

These units ran on the Metra until 1991-1993. 

21 BN E8's were rebuilt and upgraded to E9's by Morrison-Knudsen in 1973.  Another 4 were rebuilt by M-K in 1978.  They received 645EC engines and Detroit Diesel HEP units at the time of rebuild.

All were retired in1992.

Rusty

Thanks Rusty! Great info. 

Wow! Thanks for the photos and video. I am sorely tempted. I don't remember them in their pre-METRA period, but I commuted behind (or in front of) them hundreds of times between 1988 and when they were replaced by the Winnebagoes. Here's a photo of 9901 in the METRA days...I took it off the internet, and don't know the photographer, date or location. Orange nose stripes and no portholes.

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