Nostalgia & History > Sierra Railroad 1980's time of change

The 1980's would bring change to the Sierra. The ATSF would retire their smaller old wood chip cars that had friction bearings and worn out loose truck frames.

The replacement was high capacity wood chip cars with new tight roller bearing trucks. This would put the test to the aging Sierra tracks.

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Was not long until the new larger heavy wood chip cars found the weak spots in the track.

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The re-railing frogs got a workout.

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That Jim Gibbs and Bill Coffer?

WAF Wrote:
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> That Jim Gibbs and Bill Coffer?

Jim Gibbs brakeman and Wehman Caldwell conductor giving the signals. Not sure who the engineer was that day.

Ed Degiobbi was Engineer.

More change. Caboose 8 was aging and needed to be replaced. 

The 8 would be replaced by a SP bay window caboose.

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The 8 was purchased by a private party and moved to their property.

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SierraRail Wrote:
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> Ed Degiobbi was Engineer.

Good old Ed.

Used SP now Sierra number 9.

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Number 9.

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What year did they go the BWC?

Really neat set.  Thanks!

Chris

WAF Wrote:
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> What year did they go the BWC?

Looked at the back of old photos, looks like 1987.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/15 09:14 by ATSFlocal73-74.

Thanks for sharing. Interesting. Was the older caboose handed down from the SP also?

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing. Interesting. Was the older
> caboose handed down from the SP also?

Yes it was SP. 

Thanks.

I looked long and hard at your first pictures of the no. 8 caboose as I thought it might have been an ex Milwaukee caboose.  It looked a lot like the one I saw on the Seattle & North Coast.  Reading on in your thread of course told me the real story but also, I could not see the distinctive tool box access door from the outside. 

So, was it an ex-SP caboose?

Rick

rschonfelder Wrote:
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> I looked long and hard at your first pictures of
> the no. 8 caboose as I thought it might have been
> an ex Milwaukee caboose.  It looked a lot like
> the one I saw on the Seattle & North Coast. 
> Reading on in your thread of course told me the
> real story but also, I could not see the
> distinctive tool box access door from the
> outside. 
>
> So, was it an ex-SP caboose?
>
> Rick


What I find here on TO is SP C-40-1 built in 1937. Sierra purchased it in 1971.  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/15 16:21 by ATSFlocal73-74.

Sierra caboose #8 was purchased from SP in April, 1970. Can't find the SP number at the moment, but am still looking. #8 was a C-40-3, built in 1942.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/15 17:07 by SierraRail.