SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 1) SLSF 928 Thayer, MO. 11/23/1979 2) SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 Thayer, MO. 8/29/1881 3) SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 Kansas City, MO. 9/1985 4) SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 Stored at Springfield, MO. 12/29/1985
Please see this action photograph shot of SD45 SLSF 928 at Marysville, KS. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3715870128/sizes/l/in/set-72157621289131445/ The Frisco engine is "off the property" in pool service. The engine is in a mixed consist with Union Pacific (UP) Railroad locomotives that include General Electric (GE) U-30-C models. Marysville, KS is the first UP division crew change point northwest of Kansas City. The photograph is undated. There are a number of details visible in this photograph including the L shaped window in front of the engineer, unique on the Frisco to the SD-45s, ground light below the engineers window, at night the light helps at low speeds to determine if moving, direction and speed, and the rock pilot common on many Frisco units. Subtle details include the black rubber gaskets around the number boards, windows and class lights. On models these can be replicated with a very fine point Sharpie pen. Coloring the window gaskets also helps disguise thicker plastic cab walls. Also note the white plastic covers over the front running board light. This is the white horizontal strips low on the pointed nose. These can be simulated with a touch of white paint or thin strip of decal. Just to the rear of the ground light is the front truck air supply line and cut out angle cock. The air cut off cock for the rear truck is on the opposite side. This opposite side arrangement was unique to this model. When hosteling units around service tracks and shops having the truck cut off on opposite sides could create extra work moving from side to side, up, over and down - then back again, or up one side, around the end, then back down the other side of the engine(s). Hope this helps! Thanks! Mark
SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 SD45 SLSF 928 - BN 6676 Digging through the Frisco Archives looking at SD45 pictures, I noticed that the unit's trucks had apparently been swapped. The trucks were swapped between high and low brake cylinder mounting positions at least once, high mounted in 1978 and 1979, then low mounted in 1983. I can only guess that swapping power trucks was a method for reducing down-time for maintenance. Can anyone confirm or shed light as to another reason that trucks would have been changed?
While working as a machinist it would not be uncommon to them to lift a unit off one set of trucks, and put them on another, for any number of reasons. I have a picture of a BN SD40-2 sitting on ATSF silver trucks. Those low cylinder trucks were a bear to adjust brakes on, was usually rectified by just adding a new brake shoe or swapping various used ones, to get the cylinder adjustments in proper limits.
