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Re: CGW cow and calf- SP TR-6 Cow and calfs, and TEBU:'s
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-05-2017 - 19:54
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> BOB2 Wrote:
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> > TR-6's )aka SW8 without the calf), of which SP
> and
> > subsidiaries had a few, they were used as dinky
> > engines and locals like the Culver City job
> quite
> > often, without the two SP calfs, which I
> believe
> > lived out there lives at Roseville.
>
> SP purchased four TR6 sets for use on the
> Northwestern Pacific. While on the NWP, SP broke
> up the sets by replacing the drawbar between the A
> and B units with standard draft gears and
> couplers, and a rear headlight was added to the A
> units. The A units were then sent to the LA
> Division while dynamic brake equipped SW8's were
> then m.u.ed with the TR6B's. Initially they
> continued to be used on the NWP, then were used in
> branch line service on the SP in northern
> California. Around 1961 they were reassigned to
> the Roseville hump, where they worked until
> retired.
>
> TR6A 4600 (remembered 1100; originally EMD
> demonstrator 1600A) is preserved at the Western
> Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola.
>
> [www.wplives.org]
> tml
TR6A 4601 working on the Pacific Electric.
[espee.railfan.net]
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> BOB2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > TR-6's )aka SW8 without the calf), of which SP
> and
> > subsidiaries had a few, they were used as dinky
> > engines and locals like the Culver City job
> quite
> > often, without the two SP calfs, which I
> believe
> > lived out there lives at Roseville.
>
> SP purchased four TR6 sets for use on the
> Northwestern Pacific. While on the NWP, SP broke
> up the sets by replacing the drawbar between the A
> and B units with standard draft gears and
> couplers, and a rear headlight was added to the A
> units. The A units were then sent to the LA
> Division while dynamic brake equipped SW8's were
> then m.u.ed with the TR6B's. Initially they
> continued to be used on the NWP, then were used in
> branch line service on the SP in northern
> California. Around 1961 they were reassigned to
> the Roseville hump, where they worked until
> retired.
>
> TR6A 4600 (remembered 1100; originally EMD
> demonstrator 1600A) is preserved at the Western
> Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola.
>
> [www.wplives.org]
> tml
TR6A 4601 working on the Pacific Electric.
[espee.railfan.net]
