Nostalgia & History > MILW E39A Tacoma 1973

Seems to be missing a few parts!

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My heart bleeds.

desertjack Wrote:
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> Seems to be missing a few parts!

Sent to Deer Lodge to cannibalize useful parts in November, 1972. Sent back to Tacoma for scrapping in 1973.

E39A was part of the last operational box cab set on the Coast Division. Last run was as a work train on Oct. 20, 1972.

Best regards,

Rob L.

I remember lots of boxcabs in the scrap line in Tacoma, what years would that have been?  I really can't recall, but would there have been any there in 1979?

Ed

Auburn_Ed Wrote:
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> I remember lots of boxcabs in the scrap line in
> Tacoma, what years would that have been?  I
> really can't recall, but would there have been any
> there in 1979?
>

Long gone by then. Must have been before 1975.

Best regards,

Rob L.

Lot of them went to Joseph Simon and Sons scrapper in Tacoma. Got out of the Army in June 1975 and the scrapping was done by then. Tried to buy the headlight off a steeple cab, but old man Simon would not sell. Would have paid them  lot more than what that little bit of tin paid in scrap!
JS&S cut up a lot of locomotives. Remember SP&S FA's, NP F's, RS"s. You name it and they probley cut some of them up!
Only thing I remember after that was the Little Joes going to scrap in Chehalis, Wa.

Steve Panzik
Chiloquin, Or