Cardiff Model Engineering Society
ROCKY
MOUNTAINEER
the Society's new locomotive, built by a group of members
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 Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian tour company offering Western Canadian vacation packages that operates trains on four rail routes through British Columbia and Alberta. The Locomotive is based on the EMD GP40-2 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division . Power was provided by an EMD 645E3 16-cylinder engine which generated 3000 horsepower |
©Anon.
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| Bogies, motors and some of the control system were used from the Society's scrapped Virgin Locomotive | ||
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| Stripped ready for the painters | ||
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| The 'donor' locomotive | ||
