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A power unit removed from a Portugese CP Class 1800 locomotive. Whilst the power unit block is ostensibly the same as that fitted to a UK Class 50 there are a large number of differences in the layout of pipework & fittings such as in this view there are no turbo chargers or intercoolers fitted as there is on a UK Class 50 power unit. Also note the belt driven drive off the main generator
UP 7880 leads a loaded coal train up the eastern slopes of Soldier Summit near Colton, UT. Shortly after crossing underneath US-6 the train will stop to cut out the four manned helpers that were added before departing Helper, UT.
Photos scanned from colour slides taken in the summer of 1975 at Bristol Temple Meads station on a fairly cheap Hanimax compact camera in the days when everything was in BR blue.
A Bristol BVW engine, of 8.9 litres, probably from a Bristol FLF Lodekka. Decidedly inferior, in my experience, to the Gardner LW option fitted to these buses. Seen at Bristol Omnibus Co's Central Repair Works, Lawrence Hill, Bristol, Saturday 26th February 1977.