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Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL
Author: Hot Water
Date: 11-15-2019 - 10:51

Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> brains Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hey, PDX- Please help my ignorance, and tell
> why
> > this is called a Spartan cab. The North
> American
> > Safety cab is pretty self-explanatory.
> >
> > Thanks in advance. brains
>
>
> The Spartan cab was introduced in 1963 with the
> GP35. Before that you had the sloped noses of the
> GP20 and the SD24,

Except the cab interior wasn't all that different, no matter whether the "nose" was sloped or not. Thus, your "Spartan Cab" was really introduced on EMD GP/SD models with the GP7, as the cab interior of a GP7 was pretty much unchanged up through the GP20/SD24 models. The "standard" cabs we know today started with the 35 series units, as a result of improvements in manufacturing standardization.

and I guess the GP30 doesn't
> count.

Right.

While it would be fun to attribute the name
> to a Michigan State alum, I am sure it was named
> Spartan, as in spare and simple.

Well, in all my years at EMD, I must admit that I NEVER heard the term "Spartan Cab".

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Pdxrailtransit 11-14-2019 - 15:38
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Jack S. 11-14-2019 - 18:07
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL brains 11-14-2019 - 18:23
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Pdxrailtransit 11-15-2019 - 10:37
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Hot Water 11-15-2019 - 10:51
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL HUTCH 7.62 11-15-2019 - 11:03
  Well here is the term used by none other than Gary Dolzall Pdxrailtransit 11-15-2019 - 11:18
  Re: Well here is the term used by none other than Gary Dolzall OPRRMS 11-15-2019 - 12:45
  Re: Well here is the term used by none other than Gary Dolzall Hot Water 11-15-2019 - 13:38
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL OPRRMS 11-15-2019 - 13:27
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL BN Oly 11-15-2019 - 22:19
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL OPRRMS 11-16-2019 - 03:11
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL J.K. Trowling 11-16-2019 - 02:07
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL OPRRMS 11-16-2019 - 03:10
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL OPRRMS 11-16-2019 - 03:19
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Dr Zarkoff 11-16-2019 - 10:04
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Dilworth 11-16-2019 - 14:18
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL OPRRMS 11-16-2019 - 15:32
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Dr Zarkoff 11-17-2019 - 09:00
  Re: EMD Spartan Cab 645s Live on the MRL Peter D. 11-15-2019 - 11:17


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