PC: Re: PC C628s/Windows for RPP SD40/Contact me off list re: autos

["Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why would windows for any other EMD with the same style cab work?  IE
GP35-SD38-GP38-SD45 etc?

BK

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> From: Garrett Rea <Garrett.Rea -AT- worldnet.att.net>
> To: Penn Central <penn-central -AT- smellycat.com>
> Subject: PC: PC C628s/Windows for RPP SD40/Contact me off list re: autos
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 3:32 PM
> 
> Gents:
> 
> Had a chance to operate my new C628 on my father's layout.  Nice...
> 
> Question: the side vents on these locomotives.  At the Lines West meeting
an
> individual and I talked about these units and the vents on them.  He
stated
> that the early ones had the scoops whilst the later ones did not.  At the
> show my father and I bid on and got a bunch of Rails Northeast (only one
> duplicate to what we had) and one of the covers (September 1977) shows an
> ex-PC 628 with the cover, ConRail number 6742, (PC 6304).  The same for
CR
> 6744 in ConRail Power 2 of 1977.   It is my understanding that PRR bought
> two seperate orders (off of the info with the kit mind you...) and it is
my
> guess that the seccond order did not have these, can anyone confirm this?
> 
> I was talking to the staff at the Train Station in Columbus and the topic
of
> Run-8 windows for the Rail Power Products SD 40 came up.  They said that
> they were not listed (the individual had some unfinished kits that he
needed
> windows for) but I thought that I had seen them listed somewhere.  Any
one
> else stock such an item or was I right that Run-8 has them?
> 
> Would anyone interested in talking about or obtaining HO scale
automobiles
> of the PC era please contact me off-list.
> 
> Garrett Rea
> Mt. Juliet, TN
> 
>