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Nostalgia & History > Modesto & Empire Traction Company QuestionDate: 03/26/15 19:03 Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: miralomarail After looking at a few rosters for the Modesto & Empire Traction Company, can someone tell me which 2 SMV ( Santa Maria Valley ) units went to the M&ET ? And did they get rebuilt or stripped for parts ?
TIA Tom  Date: 03/26/15 20:51 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: SierraRail Santa Maria #20 & #40 became M&ET 610 and 611.
Date: 03/27/15 07:14 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: Evan_Werkema Most of the online rosters I'm finding show the SMV units that wound up on M&ET in 2004 by way of BHP Nevada as 30 and 40:
http://www.trainweb.org/foothill/mettxtros.html http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/SMV.html http://www.friends-smvrr.org/images/history/SMVRR-roster.pdf http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,810279 They were evidently assigned M&ET numbers 610 and 611, but photos of the parts units being trucked out in 2011 suggest they never ran for M&ET: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2399453 M&ET's own online roster shows 600-608 and then 613: http://www.metrr.com/sections/locomotives Date: 03/27/15 08:43 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: EMDSW-1 On another M&ET subject, when I was at the M&ET last week their shop foreman told me that they were going to turn their two SW-1500's into slugs to work with the gensets.
Dick Samuels Oregon Pacific Railroad Date: 03/27/15 21:58 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: MRS11813 The SMV locomotives were used for parts and then scrapped in 2011 along with 606 and 609.
Saved on the shop wall are the original horns from 600 and 602. All the numbers except 600 and the nose / bell from the 609. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/15 22:37 by ATSFlocal73-74.  Date: 03/28/15 00:54 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: Evan_Werkema ATSFlocal73-74 Wrote:
> Saved on the shop wall are the original horns from > 600 and 602. Looks like a Wabco A-2 on the left and an A-6 on the right. > All the numbers except 600 and the nose / bell from the 609. The M&ET hung on to the 600 intact when all the rest were shipped out, right? What does the company plan to do with the 600? Date: 03/28/15 07:39 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: MRS11813 Before being stored the 600 was repainted, new wheels and rebuilt traction motors. The Diesel motor is in good condition so hopefully someday it will make a run or two. Time will tell.
Date: 03/28/15 07:47 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: ddg ATSFlocal73-74 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Before being stored the 600 was repainted, new > wheels and rebuilt traction motors. The Diesel > motor is in good condition so hopefully someday it > will make a run or two. Time will tell. What diesel engine did they use in those ? Date: 03/28/15 10:01 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: MRS11813 [u]Cooper-Bessemer[/u] FWL-6T
Date: 03/28/15 21:19 Re: Modesto & Empire Traction Company Question Author: MRS11813 The 600 came to the M&ET 100th year party.
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