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Perhaps some of you infernal combustion fans can tell me what the make and model is....I took this photo way back in 1962 at Fort Worth...could this be a Whitcomb ?...it was still in service when I took the photo..

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engine3420 Wrote:
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> Perhaps some of you infernal combustion fans can
> tell me what the make and model is....I took this
> photo way back in 1962 at Fort Worth...could this
> be a Whitcomb ?...it was still in service when I
> took the photo..(idling away).

Rock Island 1000-1016 were Whitcomb/Canadian Locomotive Company 75DE12C 500 hp diesels, delivered in 1949 and 1950.

1005 was traded in to GE in December 1966.

Carl

CarlLaFong Wrote:
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> engine3420 Wrote:
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> > Perhaps some of you infernal combustion fans
> can
> > tell me what the make and model is....I took
> this
> > photo way back in 1962 at Fort Worth...could
> this
> > be a Whitcomb ?...it was still in service when
> I
> > took the photo..(idling away).
>
> Rock Island 1000-1016 were Whitcomb/Canadian
> Locomotive Company 75DE12C 500 hp diesels,
> delivered in 1949 and 1950.
>
> 1005 was traded in to GE in December 1966.
>
> Carl
Thank youuuuuuu Carl.
Chris

To give a little more history on these RI engines, they were to originally be CN units 7803-7820 but part of the order was cancelled and returned to the builder, the Canadian Locomotive Co., who was the builder for Whitcomb. Seventeen engines, 1000-1016, went to the RI while one went to Washington & Old Domion as their #55. At least three of them went to other owners before being scrapped. This info comes from 1967 DIESEL SPOTTERS GUIDE by Jerry Pinkepank.

JDE

I was gonna say Whitcomb.
Tom