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C&S E5 9950B |
| Description: |
Colorado & Southern Railway E5 9950B at Colorado Springs, Colorado on an unknown day in June 1965, photographer unknown, duplicate slide by Al Chione, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 9950B was built by Electro-Motive Corporation in March 1940 ( c/n 1037 ) as C&S 9950B and traded to EMD on a SD40 order on October 31, 1967 and scrapped. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1965 Upload Date: 10/8/2020 11:48:18 AM |
| Location: |
Colorado Springs, CO |
| Author: |
unknown |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CS 9950B(E5B) |
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| Title: |
C&S E5 9955 |
| Description: |
Colorado & Southern Railway E5 9955 at Colorado Springs, Colorado on August 19, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built as CB&Q 9914A (c/n 1301) on EMD Order E377-A , named SILVER ARROW, it was sold to C&S September 20, 1961, traded to EMD March 15, 1968. It is seen here at the head of northbound unnamed Train #8, having left Houston, Texas the previous afternoon at 3:00 PM, due in Denver at 6:05 PM. After the C&S discontinued passenger service in 1967, the C&S E5's were pressed into freight service, but were ill suited for slow drag freights and burned up traction motors quickly. Note the retractable front coupler and buffer seen in the extended position. When retracted the coupler was covered with doors, since removed, and because it took 85 complete revolutions of the hand crank to fully extend or retract the coupler, in later years it was left in the extended position. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1964 Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:43:02 AM |
| Location: |
Colorado Springs, CO |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CS 9955(E5A) CS 9952B(E5B) |
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