White River Division

Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.

Thursday 24 March 2022

Throwback Thursday - Not Your Perfect ABA

The three locomotives look a little out of balance on October 03, 1988 as Via number 72 heads east out of the London station.
By Peter Mumby.

Most model railroaders would not likely think of arranging a set of three streamlined passenger locomotives in this configuration. It would seem to defeat the purpose of not having to turn the power at the end of its run, and besides - it just doesn't look right! However, in the prototype world, I'm sure there must have been a good reason for combining the locomotives in this fashion.

F9B number 6631, class GPB-17e, is the youngster in this consist, having been built by GMD in 1958. FP9A units 6501 and 6512 both belonged to class GPA-17a and were assembled in 1954/55. Strung out behind these locomotives were the cars of Via train number 72.

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DandHColonieMain25 March 2022 at 10:40
Did the train split into two parts mid-way? If so, then both trains' engines would be facing the correct direction. I have seen that before.
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Eric25 March 2022 at 22:18
I would have killed to see those Windsor-Toronto trains! Long, interesting locomotive consists, and operating after Montreal-Toronto was taken over by the LRC fleet.
Thanks for sharing,
Eric
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