Nostalgia & History > Frisco Baldwin Swicher

On Bloomington, Illinois west side was the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's classification yards. Over the years I've seen many changes and many different things pass through including this Frisco Baldwin switcher en route to be traded in on new power around forty years ago. Footboards, poling pockets, how times have changed!

Roger Holmes

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S12 model?

ArgyleEagle Wrote:
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> S12 model?


Diesels From Eddystone catalogs this as VO-1000 built in June, 1946.

-LD

Stepwells have gotten better since then, too.

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UPTRAIN Wrote:
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> Stepwells have gotten better since then, too.
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They also took away the foot boards, which we considered quite an inconvenience.



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Yeah, but some engines still have that grab iron that holds the MU hoses, and nobody ever uses that as a step. LOL

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