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Old 11th March 2012, 11:26
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21A man,

not true, they are a dirivitive of a 59, when built, they had to use as much as possible from the original 59 design, so as to gain grandfather rights on a number of issues, such as end loading, crash worthyness etc.

No 1 end also houses the computer / control gear, where as the No. 2 end had the rad room directly behind it, the No 1 cab being bigger to allow access to the computers and control gear.

The 59s were based on SD45s and the 66s were more based control/electrically and engine wise on the SD 70s.

R

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