More photos: http://www.mikeyuhas.org/albums/2008/20089745.php
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
Aquired from IRM with no prime movers, now fully operational thanks to a donor BN/METRA E9A. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=247713 |
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
More photos: http://www.mikeyuhas.org/albums/2008/20089745.php
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| Author: | Topfuel [ Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
This is really an outstanding project. For such a major undertaking, it seems like this restoration was really under the radar. This B unit now looks to be more original than the one the UP has running with their 2 E9 A units. I would be interested to know more about the arrangement between IRM and W&S for restoring this unit. |
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| Author: | davew833 [ Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
Awesome! Is this the only "true" operating E9B unit in the US? |
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
What it looked like before the rebuild:  
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
My mistake. I was told by a WSOR employee that it was gutted when it arrived. |
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| Author: | Aarne H. Frobom [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
In a historical note known to but a few, this B unit went from Michigan to IRM by way of CSX Transportation in 1990, and was hauled from AnnPere to Wyoming, Michigan in a freight train behind PM 1225, during tests in advance of the 1991 NRHS convention. While on the Michigan Northern, it was briefly used to heat excursion cars on trains out of Cadillac. Some of these were the Southern coaches now being restored by the Bluewater Chapter, NRHS, at Saginaw, and it was attempted to use the steam-ejector air-conditioning on these cars. I always wondered if this was the world's last use of steam air. I'm told the coaches were successfully cooled to 125 degrees F using this unit. |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
But it was a DRY heat..... Howard P. Freon, CT |
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| Author: | Onder [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
Where is the other extant B unit? |
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: E9B Returns to service on the Wisconsin and Southern |
The history of WSOR's E-Units (and other locos) can be found at the following link, in case anyone's interested in their history: http://www.trainweb.org/locollection/index2.html |
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