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Re: Nippon Sharyo pulling out of USA
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 08-12-2018 - 12:11
> The IER [SP] paid for its share of cab signaling for the Bridge Ry with most of the rolling stock.
According to Bob Ford's book, Red Trains in the East Bay, there were 179 SP red electrics (not including the box motors), of which the SP transferred the title of 30 motors and 22 trailers to the Toll Bridge Authority as its share of funding for the Bridge Railway. The only preserved cars of this group are at Rio Vista: 358, 602, and and fragments of about three other bodies. With very few exceptions, none of the State owned cars went to the PE, those were SP owned.
In his book The Key Route, Harre Demoro lists 88 Key System units, of which 36 were owned by the Toll Bridge authority. All the survivors are from the State-owned group: 167 at Perris and 182, 186, and 187 at Rio Vista Jct. Two others, which went to Oregon and Nevada, have been dismantled.
The SN transferred title to five of its south end motors to the Toll Bridge Authority. These were acquired by the Key System during WWII and used as trippers on the F line in Berkeley until about 1951. Car 495 is the sole survivor of this group, where it has been restored as SN 1005 and sees regular use.
According to Bob Ford's book, Red Trains in the East Bay, there were 179 SP red electrics (not including the box motors), of which the SP transferred the title of 30 motors and 22 trailers to the Toll Bridge Authority as its share of funding for the Bridge Railway. The only preserved cars of this group are at Rio Vista: 358, 602, and and fragments of about three other bodies. With very few exceptions, none of the State owned cars went to the PE, those were SP owned.
In his book The Key Route, Harre Demoro lists 88 Key System units, of which 36 were owned by the Toll Bridge authority. All the survivors are from the State-owned group: 167 at Perris and 182, 186, and 187 at Rio Vista Jct. Two others, which went to Oregon and Nevada, have been dismantled.
The SN transferred title to five of its south end motors to the Toll Bridge Authority. These were acquired by the Key System during WWII and used as trippers on the F line in Berkeley until about 1951. Car 495 is the sole survivor of this group, where it has been restored as SN 1005 and sees regular use.
