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-Now, can anybody explain the obviously missing Janney couplings in lieu of the odd buffer - screw couplings on these locos?
GN F7A 274 & GN NW5 192? -C'mon! -What's the story behind these weird looking anomalies?
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Anybody's guess mightn't be just as good as mine...:D
Cheers
Johan
GN F7As: Great Northern Empire - Then and Now
GN NW5s: Great Northern Empire - Then and Now
Those are EU "couplings". Why they're on North american trains,... ???
"The plot thickens as the mystery deepens..."
-Now why would GN locos cruise the european rails?
Here are the real deals:
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There's a "slight discrepancy" between the locos, as most HMT:ers can see
One of these days this minor mystery will be explained, so you won't have to be "dancers in the dark"... (Hidden Clue)
J
These locos are between 68 and 75 years of age. They were not worth the trouble of repainting: The EMD NW5 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between December 1946 and February 1947. The EMD F7 had build dates from: February 1949 – December 1953.
First: NONE of the locomotives has ever set their wheels outside Europe:
The purported "GN F7A 274 & GN NW5 192" were originally built in Sweden:
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(MY loco restored to factory livery)
59 of these were GM EMD license built by NOHAB (Nydquist & Holm AB) for Danish Railways between 1954-1965.
During the nineties electrification of the Danish rail lines, led to 7 of these
were exported to Swedish independent rail operators, of whom one were leased
along with another diesel: the EMD 12-567C-powered T43 from 1963
for the movie production "Dancer in the dark" in 1999, who repainted them in GNR colors.
Noone seems to bother repainting them since.
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Their whereabouts today: Kristinehamn, Sweden.
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MY English Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSB_Class_MY
T43: English Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SJ_T43
Link to the movie:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/
5:14 min long clip from the movie (Bjork singing "I've seen it all") shot in rural Sweden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8FJyhnC2Eo
So, let me speculate once more: The "nuckle couplers" were added to simulate the setting of the referenced movie in North America, even though it was shot in Sweden? Prototypical use of the nuckle couplers in Europe would seem to present interchange problems between countries and railroads.
