Re: SP SW8's Part 3
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 05-04-2014 - 07:46
Bill K. Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Were all of the 1100 series of the SP SW-8's
> fitted with dynamic brakes? I always thought the
> two at the Yreka Western were unique. I guess I
> was wrong! :o)
All 20 that were ordered for SP's Pacific Lines (became 1109-1128 in the 1965 renumbering) were built by dynamic braking. Most were disconnected by the early Seventies. The five units ordered by the T&NO were no so equipped, nor were the TR6's.