Norfolk and Southern slugs are cool or what???????????????

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been trolling for pix on the N&S road and I found these pix of their yard slugs. WOW. They look so cooooooollllllllll with their dynamic brake setup. They would not look out of place in a Star Trek episode.

In fact my non-road specific empire uses two N&S high hood GP-50’s for pull power, and I simply am in love with the ugly brutes. They remind me of the Borg. Pity they don’t glow green round the exhaust!!!

The slugs look just like they have warp nacelles. Has anyone seen them glow blue?

Humour me, guys, I’m mostly harmless!!! [:I][:I][:I][:I][:I][:I]

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Pix?

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Dunno, but two of them (RF-4D?) are now on the Portland & Western’s Toledo Hauler as #101 and #102 - both tied to GP40s.

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Yeah, common, Maltese_Mike, post some URLs! Otherwise, you’re just being a tease… [}:)]

Brian Pickering

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I was always partial to the slugs that the N&W made from recycled FM Trainmasters. Plain looking? Maybe, but with an Alco C630 Master, they were impressive pushing cuts of loaded hoppers around in the Roanoke yard.

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I like the road slugs of CSX. They resemble the original living locos (GP30’s and GP35’s)

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Canadian National has bult some interesting frankenslugs over the years as well mostly from S3 and S4 switchers. Nowaday’s they use purpose built slugs manufactured from the get go by bombardier at the Thunderbay plant. Rob

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to each his own

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Actually it’s just Norfolk Southern, not Norfolk & Southern.

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Harmless Mike;

They are road slugs, not yard slugs. The N&W made them from GP9/18 locomotives, keeping thier dynamic brakes, to be spliced between a pair of GP40 locomotives. This provided a combination equivalent to two SD40/SD40-2 that could go on much tighter track, with the weight spread out further.

N&S is a road that the Southern absorbed in the 1960’s. NS is the current Class 1 railroad with a Thoroughbred as it’s corporate logo.

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I did a google search on N&W slugs and here are a few photo links I found, but be aware - they took quite awhile for me to load (not sure why):

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=63219
http://alsprr.railfan.net/MyPics/Slug2466.jpg