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05/23/02 10:24 |
D. T. Sprau |
"Can anyone provide
the road numbers for the four NP U-25Cs set up for Locotrol circa 1969? Also, the road numbers for the
converted F7Bs? Anyone have photos of
same?" The master unit was the
2523 and the slave was the 380. I am not aware of any others being so
converted, though they could have been. I'd thought the NP had, by mid-1969,
experienced all the misadventures of which tales are told about those slaves
and they were gone by then. But I could be wrong because I also was gone by
then, to the GNRy, where similar contraptions had been tried and found
wanting... radio control master slave GP18 380 U-25C 2523 Compiler C Frissell |
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05/23/02 10:49 |
John Phillips |
> Where were these
units used in remote service?
> The _1971 BN Annual_
shows that the Locotrol was in place on the rear from Glendive to Glen Ullin, ND, where it would be placed on
the head end for the trip to Mandan.
It would be cut off there and placed at
the rear of the power on the return trip to Glendive. radio control master slave GP18 380 U-25C
2523 Compiler C Frissell |
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05/23/02 18:54 |
Micheal Farley |
According to a green book
I have, the first Locotrol master was U25-C #2523, with GP18 #380 as the
remote. They were so equipped in the mid 1960's. Added late 68-early 69 was
U25-C #2524. U25-C's 2502 & 2508 were also added near merger time, and
the #380 lost its remote unit around then, too. The RCU/RCC's were: RCU1 Conv. 12/68 from F7B 6010C(2)
Master:2502 RCU2 Conv. 6/68 from F7B 6007C(2) Master:2523 After 3/2/70, the following assignments
apply 2502(5602) w/RCU 1 2523(5623) w/RCU 2 2508(5608) w/RCU 3(ex-GN)
2524(5624) w/RCU 4(ex-GN) radio
control master slave GP18 380 U-25C 2523 Compiler C Frissell |
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05/23/02 14:14 |
Lynn Francis |
NP RCU1 ex-NP F7-B 2-6010C master unit U25C BN# 5602. This ex-NP
#2502 ? NP RCU2 ex-NP F7-b 2-6007C master unit U25CBN# 5623. This ex-NP #2523 ? GN # 1 ex-GN F7-B 438c master unit
U25C BN# 5608. This ex-NP #2508 ? GN # 2 ex-GN F7-B 446B master unit U25C BN#
5624. This ex-NP #2524 ? ex-NP U25C 2500-2529 to BN 5600 to 5629. NP RCU2 to
BN RCU2 to BN RCU102 first. Destroyed
in wreck. This info from BN 1973 Annual, page 120. Photos of RCU102
(1st),(2nd),RCU103,RCU112 all in BN paint.
BN Annual 1974-75 has photos of GN #2 & GN #3 in GN colors and
NP RCU2 in original configuration and
paint plus NP 2523 and gp18380. Also
an article on locotrol and photos of RCU109 inside and out. radio control master slave GP18 380 U-25C
2523 GN BN Compiler C Frissell |