OPRRMS Wrote:
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> 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.
>
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> sp-tr6a-fred_a_stindt.jpg

TR6B 1152 and SW8 1114 in hump service at Roseville.

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