Engine Type?

[Justin99]

What type of engine is this?
Why is the cab closer to the front than usual?
Is this type of engine available?

 

[Azervich]

Looks like a U-30 or something close, I've got an Athearn One.... meh... forgot it's name

 

[pdkoester]

What type of engine is this?
Why is the cab closer to the front than usual?
Is this type of engine available?

Model: GE C30-7, Built As: BN 5017 (C30-7). Serial Number: 42581, Order No: 1811-2.

It is normal, look at this...

This is completely normal.

 

[Azervich]

I guess it's a C30-7 I also have, all this time I was thinking it was a U30C for some reason, took this photo a few years back.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q97/Azervich/100_0477.jpg

Left side in Southern Pacific

I got it 2nd hand so it's got parts missing.

Cheers.

 

[frogpipe]

I was gonna ask about the trucks... Nice SP collection

My one and only, an N Scale dummy GP60, sent to me by an inlaw when we moved to Burbank, CA.

 

[Justin99]

O. K. Thanks

Do you know what the logic behind moving the cab forward a little was?

While having these engines in mind, why are the U-30s, etc. sometimes called U-Boats?

 

[simulatortrain]

Nothing, that's the nose they used. The toilet is behind the cab in a GE unit vs in the nose on an EMD unit, but that's about it.

 

[jadebullet]

Yup, it is just a different manufacturer.

 

[mjolnir]

... <snippage> ... why are the U-30s, etc. sometimes called U-Boats?

The name "u-boat" for any of the GE U series locomotives was mostly, if not entirely, a railfan thing. The Rock Island operated a number of different models in the U series, and I never heard a RI employee, or an employee of any other railroad who was not first a rail fan, use the term. During WWII the numbers of German Submarines assigned by the German navy all began with a prefix "U", e.g., the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The U was an abbreviation for the German word for submarine (Unterseeboot) and most model railroaders in the 1960's and 1970's were familiar with naming convention for German submarines, so it was something of a natural, if dated, railfan moniker.

ns

 

[Justin99]

Alright
Thanks, everyone.