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Milwaukee Road Locomotives Volume 5 Second Generation Six-Axle EMD & GE Locomoti
Milwaukee Road Locomotives Volume 5 Second Generation Six-Axle EMD & GE Locomotives
Plus Rebuilt SD10s, and Slug Sets
By Thomas I Strauss
Hardbound 144 pages
Copyright 2013
MILWAUKEE ROAD LOCOMOTIVES
Volume Five
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Author's Foreword Electro-Motive Division Locomotives/Six-Axle
FP45 Nos. 1 through 5
SD45 Nos. 4000 through 4009
F40C Nos. 40 through 54
SDL39 Nos. 581 through 590
SD40-2
Nos. 3000 through 3040
Nos. 130-170 (originally 3000-3040)
Nos. 171 through 181
Nos. 16-20 (originally 177-181)
Nos. 21-30
Nos. 182-209
General Electric Locomotives/Six-Axle
U33C Nos. 8000 through 8003
U36C Nos. 8500 through 8503
U30C Nos. 5651 through 5658 Second Generation Rebuilds/Six-Axle
SD10 Nos. 532, 534, and 543 through 561
Mother-Slug-Mother Sets
Appendix - Diesel Locomotive Inventory
Milwaukee Road's five remaining E7As exceeded two decades of use, and were due for retirement after 1968. By mid-year then, the railroad still operated thirty passenger movements, including two pairs of Union Pacific "Cities" trains.
Management began searching for replacement power and looked with favor at new passenger locomotives developed by Electro-Motive Division in concert with the Santa Fe. Nine of these new units had been delivered to the AT&SF in December 1967. The following year, Deember 1968, five of these huge FP45 locomotives were delivered to the Milwaukee Road, numbered 1 through 5. Only these two roads opted for this passenger version.
They were 72 feet and four inches in length, lacked dynamic brakes like all Milwaukee's passenger F-units, featured their only nose-mounted twin sealed-beam headlights on Milwaukee "second generation" diesels with rotating Gyralites above the cab centers, had the Prime electronic bells to the left of their three-chime horns, and were Milwaukee's largest single-unit diesels, built with 20-645E engines rated at 3,600 horsepower. This new model had become known as a "Cowl Unit", and Milwaukee Road's five locomotives were their last, delivered in Union Pacific's Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray paint scheme with red lettering and road numbers below the heralds on their cab sides, and red lettering from above their water tanks to below their center radiator screens, as well as silver trucks. The E7As were all retired in the first half of 1969, and several FP7s were transferred to either suburban or freight service, with a few former passenger F7Bs. An order for another half-dozen FP45s, intended to be road numbers
6-11, was cancelled in late 1969, after filing petitions to discontinue both the Pioneer Limited (Nos. 1 & 4) and the Afternoon Hiawatha (Nos. 5 & 6) passenger trains.
Milwaukee Road regeared its five FP45s to 62:15, increased their fuel tank capacity to 5,000 gallons by removing the water/fuel partition, and reclassified them as 36-EF-6 with reassignment into the freight locomotive pool following the Afternoon Hiawatha (Nos. 5 & 6) passenger trains' demise on January 23, 1970. Between July 1970 and August of the following year, they were repainted to Milwaukee Road's standard orange and black scheme, with black steps and thresholds below their cab and access doors, and black road numbers centered in their lower rear panels. Their steam generators and piping were removed, winterization covers with ducting added to their radiator's lead No. 1 fans, and most had tall multiple-unit stands installed just to the left of their front walkway centers, and Gyralites plated over on some. Four years later, they were again repainted with the large billboard lettering in black and their road numbers in white centered on their sides just below the sloped eves, the former water tank gauges removed, Prime flashing amber rotary beacons centered in their cab roofs, and their Prime electronic bells upgraded with the Model PM 733 rectangular trumpet twin-speaker style.
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