Re: (erielack) The F5

[Kevin DeGroff <kdegroff_@_starpower.net>]

The only other item I can add is the engineering department at EMD was the group pushing the
F5 label.  It seems most other segments of EMD acknowledged them as F3.  

This is reinforced by Preston Cook's use of F3 to identify the 709 and 710 sets. Here was
a guy who worked for EMD and he calls them F3 in his published material.

I asked some management contacts at BNSF to look into these issues in a private email.  My 
contacts said they still know a few people from the Santa Fe Cleburne shops, where all those
F units were converted to CF-7s, and they will try to get some input regarding the sheet 
metal issues (grilles, numberboards, etc) of the units.  I was also informed, however, that 
"the 567 guy" who worked at Topeka shops and was so involved in the Santa Fe 567 rebuild 
programs has retired, so it was going to be tougher to find somebody still around who might 
know the electrical transmission idiosyncracies of these things. 

As for me, I'll be off-line until next Wed, as I'm heading to the BNSF Thayer Sub (ex-Frisco
Springfield MO to Memphis TN).  Trip is about 30% business, related to BNSF snagging the PRB
coal contract for Plant Scherer, and 70% personal vacation.

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