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Now there is a term that I have never heard used to describe railroad
equipment. What do you mean by triple-ended when describing a slug?

Don Trettel
 

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N&W was at least 5 years into the RP-F6Y program by late 1976... these were
triple-ended yard slugs, the first two done in 1971.  The only two six-axle
EMDs that were converted to slugs (RP-E6R) were a wrecked SD35 and a wrecked
EL SDP45 that was N&W owned.  These were converted into double-ended road
slugs for SD45s, and were never intended for yard service that the RP-F6Ys
were.  The last two FMs (VGN 173 and WAB 594) were converted to RP-F6Ys in
1981, almost five years after the previous RP-F6Y had been turned out.

Robb Fisher
RFDI