Espee2472 Wrote:
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> Craig Tambo Wrote:
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> > Back in the 70s, BART had a Whitcomb 75-tonner
> > that had previously worked on the Washington &
> Old
> > Dominion Railroad. BART (or a contractor) had
> > removed the cab to meet clearances. I imagine
> it's
> > long gone now. I've also seen small four-wheel
> > Plymouths at the Concord and Hayward shops.
>
> last i saw of it, was at the DC maintenance.yard,
> then it disappeared, it's probably some
> where in the system, bart has a
> tendency to hang onto mow equipment,
> no matter what

This from the Bay Area Electric Railroad Review in late 1968-

In September, 1968, Whitcomb Diesel-Electric locomotive (Builder's Number 60749) was
delivered to BART contractor Dravo Corporation at the Southern Alameda Yard. Dravo
Corporation has the contract to lay the first rails of the BAR T in Alameda County - and
the very first permanent BART tracks which will be laid between Hayward and Oakland.
For most of the way they will be on the aerial structure which is the BART term for
elevated. For much of its distance it closely parallels the main line of the Western
Pacific Railroad out of Oakland.
The Whitcomb Locomotive was built in 1946 for the Potlatch Forests , Inc., Lewiston,
Idaho, where it first went into service on May 28, 1946. As built it was a double-truck
standard gauge engine and it was still standard gauge when received by the Dravo
Corporation at BART's Southern Alameda Yard. To fit it for service on BART's first
trackage(5-foot 6-inch gauge which has been adopted for all the BART system) the trucks
were removed and sent to the shop to be changed for operation on broad gauge track.