Tom - Yes, that's also in the plan, though I don't remember F9B's as much as the GP35's and GP38's being stuck (one or two) in between two Frisco "hammerheads". By the time Kurt and I started chasing trains (1979-80) the F9B's had been traded in I think. I have a Highliners FxB unit with all the correct fans and grills to make it into a F9B. I'll probably keep it a dummy, though I have several Kato/Stewart drives that would fit it (probably be too smooth for the non-Genesis Athearn's! The Kato's run great with the Genesis Frisco b/y F3 units.) And ..... ..... I plan to do it in the austerity black color scheme, not o/w. I just can't deal with F-units in o/w. Un-American and a violation of Mother Nature I say. Ken
The normal consist for a KCP coal train out of the "big mine" at Catale was a B unit sandwiched between two SD45s. I remember in 1972 I was hostling and had pulled several short rests and was beginning my second shift in a row when our first move was to make up this consist. We left the lead SD45 under the sanding tower and went to pick up the B unit with the trailing SD45. I went brain dead on the way back and came to when the hostler helper jumped off the B unit as we hit the standing 45. I hit that unit so hard that we moved it so far that the sand was pouring out on the cab roof. Probably didn't do too much good there.
SD45s were like comparing a a v8 to 6 cyl power, had a neat sound, powerful, they would pull their hearts out on a hill with high amps and low speed. I was veeery happy to have two 900s in a consist.
