Nostalgia & History > Diesels marked RADIO EQUIPPED

MartyBernard posted a neat shot of an SP Fairbanks-Morse switcher...

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4061074,4061074#msg-4061074

...which reminds me of how much I always like engines with RADIO EQUIPPED and a little lightning bolt emblazoned on them.  When I was a lad I noticed it on NP engines in St Paul MN and immediately liked it.  When you're a little boy who's nuts about trains but don't know much about how they work, it was gratifying to gain information about the mysteries.  I could announce "That one has a two-way radio" when a NP freght went by (I knew about two-way radios from watching Vic Morrow use one on "Combat").  I know that the D&H and Erie Lackawanna used RADIO EQUIPPED, what other railroads used it?  I think some roads had it on cabooses as well.

NYC used a version of it as well early-on.

Bob

Western Pacific as well.

The DL&W had "F Units" and cabooses labeled for "Radio Equipped", well back in the mid 1950s and into the Erie-Lackawanna merged era.

Also SP until the novelty wore off...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Yep, this was railroading: proud to advertise that it had finally adopted a fifty-year-old technology.

EO
Anticipating "Bluetooth Equipped" locomotives by the 22nd Century...

NKP had them on their cabs
 

I remeber new automobiles in the early 1970's ? with decals about "Disc Brakes"!

WM

Marlyand shotline "Maryland Midland" had followed suit.

JW

They prolly dont want to advertize "Radio Equipped" nowadays because it would just encourage more vandalism and theft.

P&LE had something called a "Atomic" symbol for their radio equipped units

hogheaded Wrote:
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> Yep, this was railroading: proud to advertise that
> it had finally adopted a fifty-year-old
> technology.
>
> EO
> Anticipating "Bluetooth Equipped" locomotives by
> the 22nd Century...

Right after PTC is finally installed.

Just don't say "cell phone equipped". 

hogheaded Wrote:
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> Yep, this was railroading: proud to advertise that
> it had finally adopted a fifty-year-old
> technology.
>
> EO
> Anticipating "Bluetooth Equipped" locomotives by
> the 22nd Century...

Lol yeah and from what I gather from the old heads they worked really well lol!

Were many steam engines "radio equipped"?  I don't recall seeing  cute lightning bolts on the sides of the locomotives.

 

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> Were many steam engines "radio equipped"?  I
> don't recall seeing  cute lightning bolts on the
> sides of the locomotives.
>
>  

Not too sure about any other roads, but I think it was the PRR that had at least some of its steam equipped with their "Induction phone" system...

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